斯普林斯是一座军事重镇，也是全球基督教布道中心，自1970年其美国众议院选区设立以来，每次选举都送出一名共和党议员进入华盛顿。直到2026年。
Springs, a military town and global center for Christian evangelism, has sent a Republican to Washington every election since its US House of Representatives district was created in 1970. Then came 2026.
杰西卡·基林的胜利，是民主党如何依靠民生负担问题、人口结构变化和候选人优势，一个选区一个选区地构建其压倒性胜利的最鲜明例证之一。基林是一名退伍军人，属于本周翻盘当选的数十名民主党人之一。
The victory of Jessica Killin, an Army veteran who was among dozens of Democrats who flipped a seat this week, is one of the starkest examples of how the party built its resounding win on affordability issues, demographics and candidates, one district at a time.
在一个拥有五处军事设施、午餐时间快餐店挤满军人的地区，基林的胜选依赖于退伍军人、现役军人及其家属的选票，他们约占人口的三分之一，对伊朗战争感同身受。一名从该市卡森堡美国陆军基地部署的士兵是这场冲突中首批阵亡的美国人之一。
In an area with five military installations, where soldiers pack fast-food restaurants at lunchtime, Killin's triumph relied on votes of veterans, service members and their families, who represent about a third of the population, and for whom the war in Iran is personal. A soldier deployed from the city's Fort Carson US Army base was among the first Americans to die in the conflict.
初次参选的基林表示，她的胜利是对共和党现任议员杰夫·克兰克支持唐纳德·特朗普总统的否决，凸显了选民对伊朗战争、关税政策和杰弗里·爱泼斯坦丑闻的不满。
Killin, a first-time candidate, said her win was a repudiation of Republican incumbent Jeff Crank's support for President Donald Trump and underscored voters' frustrations with the Iran war, tariffs and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
一名为她拉票的支持者发现，在大都会区人口过去四十年间翻倍至约78.2万、种族多样性增加、选民更年轻且受教育程度更高的选区，移民问题也是拉美裔选民关注的焦点。
A supporter who canvassed for her found immigration also was on the minds of Latinos in a district where the population of metropolitan Colorado Springs more than doubled to around 782,000 in the last four decades, bringing greater ethnic diversity and a younger, more highly educated electorate.
基林周四对记者说：“我下定决心要创造真正重要的历史，对抗我们大家诚实地都对华盛顿特区感到厌倦的可怕腐败和混乱。”她曾是美国陆军伞兵，也是前第二先生道格·埃姆霍夫的助手。克兰克曾试图将基林描绘成外来者。
"I am resolved to make the history that really matters, combating horrific corruption and chaos that we are all honestly sick of in Washington, DC," Killin, a former US Army paratrooper and aide to ex-second gentleman Doug Emhoff, told reporters on Thursday. Crank had tried to portray Killin as an outsider.
克兰克上周在社交媒体发帖称：“我们不能让我们的社区变成丹佛或博尔德”，指的是北边这两座由民主党控制的城市。
"We cannot let our community turn into Denver or Boulder," Crank posted on social media last week, referring to the two Democratic-controlled cities to the north.
基林将目标选民锁定在该州第二大城市、也是她的家乡的中间派和左倾居民身上。根据县政府数据，在过去三个总统选举周期中，这些选民抛弃了两大主要政党，导致埃尔帕索县无党派选民比例激增近一半，达到选民总数的 53%。
Killin targeted centrist and left-leaning residents in the state’s second-largest city, and her hometown, who in the past three presidential cycles abandoned both major parties, swelling unaffiliated voters by nearly half to 53% of the electorate in El Paso County, according to county data.
在这个拥有 200 多家航天、航空航天、网络安全和国防公司、雇佣约 11.1 万人、占当地经济 40% 以上的大都会区，基林猛烈抨击克兰克支持特朗普在伊朗发动“鲁莽”战争，并主张国会需要收回战争授权。
In a metropolitan area where more than 200 space, aerospace, cybersecurity, and defense companies employ around 111,000 people, and account for over 40% of the local economy, Killin hammered Crank's support of Trump's "reckless" war in Iran and argued that Congress needed to reclaim its war-powers authority.
57 岁的卡尔·施耐德曾任美国特种部队军官和埃尔帕索县共和党主席，他支持基林，以遏制一个在他看来军事上已失控的总统职位。
Karl Schneider, 57, a former US special forces officer and ex-chair of the El Paso Republican Party, backed Killin to rein in a presidency he sees as militarily out of control.
“唐纳德·特朗普对美利坚合众国、我们的共和国，我认为对世界其他地区都是清晰而现实的危险，”施耐德说。他是一家人工智能网络安全咨询公司的高管，曾在美军“绿色贝雷帽”部队服役。
"Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the United States of America, our republic, and I think to the rest of the world," said Schneider, an executive at an AI cybersecurity advisory firm who served as a US Army Green Beret.
对其他人来说，比如 67 岁的里克·伍德，克兰克未能帮助解决高昂的汽油和食品杂货价格，且过度绑定特朗普，后者的支持率根据路透社/益普索全国民调接近 32% 的生涯低点。“他们骑在特朗普的裙带上当选，”美国空军退伍军人伍德说。
For others, like Rick Wood, 67, Crank failed to help tackle high gas and grocery prices and tied himself too closely to Trump, whose approval rating is near a career low of 32%, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national poll. "They ran on Trump's coattails," said Wood, a US Air Force veteran.
一些接受路透社采访的共和党选民所在的选区设有“家庭关注会”福音派组织总部，他们对这股“蓝色浪潮”感到震惊，表示担心国家会滑向共产主义，这呼应了特朗普关于近期左翼民主党候选人崛起的警告。
Some Republicans interviewed by Reuters in the district that is home to the Focus on the Family evangelical organization were stunned by the blue wave, saying they feared the country would descend into communism, echoing warnings from Trump about the recent rise of left-wing Democratic candidates.
政治学教授萨拉·哈格多恩认为，基林以及其他在前共和党据点获胜的民主党人，可能预示着 1990 年代和 2000 年代初期那种财政负责、跨党派合作的“蓝狗民主党人”正在回归。
Politics professor Sara Hagedorn saw Killin, and other Democrats who won in former Republican strongholds, as a possible return to the fiscally responsible "Blue Dog" Democrats of the 1990s and early 2000s who worked across party lines.
“她在这里有一个真正的机会，成为民主党内部真正的温和派或独立声音，”在科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校任教的哈格登说。
"She has a real opportunity here to be a real moderate or independent voice within the Democratic Party," said Hagedorn, who teaches at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
在民主党众议院竞选委员会于2月将该选区列为“竞争激烈”地区后——这是该委员会首次将该地区列为目标——基林的竞选资金大幅增加。
Killin's campaign coffers swelled after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee listed the district as "in play" in February, the first time the committee had targeted the area.
65岁的布鲁斯·巴伦曾任共和党国会助手，他在科罗拉多斯普林斯东南部为基林拉票，那里的学区约有54%的学生是西班牙裔，许多黑人社区居民也居住于此。
Bruce Barron, 65, a former Republican congressional aide, canvassed for Killin in southeast Colorado Springs where the school district has around 54% Hispanic students and many of the Black community live.
“我交谈的每一位西班牙裔都对此产生共鸣，担心在特朗普政府领导下西班牙裔不安全，”巴伦说。
"Every Hispanic I talked to, it resonates with them, the concern about Hispanics not being safe under the Trump administration,” said Barron.
根据竞选团队的数据，基林的竞选筹款额以近两比一的优势超过克兰克，达到560万美元。
Killin’s campaign outraised Crank’s by nearly two to one with $5.6 million in funds.
她调动了400多名志愿者敲开10万多户家庭的门，并举办了约150场活动与选民见面。
She deployed over 400 volunteers to knock on over 100,000 doors while hosting around 150 events to meet voters, according to the campaign.
当凯尔·特雷在科罗拉多斯普林斯南部为基林拉票时——那里许多家庭门外飘扬着美国国旗，车道上停着耗油量大的皮卡——他遇到了一些保守派选民，他们在看到克兰克支持一场推高能源价格的战争后，愿意支持基林。
As Kyle Trei, 40, canvassed for Killin in south Colorado Springs, where American flags fly outside many homes and fuel-hungry pickups stand in driveways, he met conservatives willing to support Killin after they saw Crank back a war that has stoked energy prices.
“这是该选区从未见过的候选人，”从事IT工作的特雷谈到基林时说。
"This is a candidate that this district has never seen before," Trei, an IT professional, said of Killin.