在共和党中期选举失利后，参议院共和党人正推动推迟定于下周举行的党内领导层选举，此举可能为挑战约翰·图恩敞开大门。
Senate Republicans are pushing to delay the party’s leadership elections scheduled for next week following the GOP’s midterms defeat, a move that may open the door to a potential challenge against John Thune.
佛罗里达州参议员里克·斯科特表示支持召开会议讨论推迟下周的投票，称共和党必须“先拿出计划”。“在商业上，你会怎么做？你先制定计划，然后雇人来执行计划，”斯科特周六在福克斯新闻节目中说。
Florida Senator Rick Scott expressed support for holding a meeting to discuss postponing next week’s vote, saying that Republicans had to “come up with a plan first.”“In business, what do you do? You come up with your plan, and then you hire people to do that plan,” Scott said Saturday on Fox News.
这位参议员拒绝透露他是否签署了威斯康星州参议员罗恩·约翰逊写的一封信，该信呼吁召开共和党党团会议讨论推迟选举。
The senator refrained from saying whether he had signed a letter written by Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson calling for a Republican conference meeting to discuss a delay.
约翰逊需要至少五个签名才能召集党团会议。约翰逊周六在福克斯新闻节目中说，他已凑齐足够签名，但目前只有路易斯安那州的约翰·肯尼迪和犹他州的迈克·李确认签署了该信。
Johnson needs at least five signatures to call a conference meeting. Johnson said Saturday on Fox News that he has enough signatures for one, but only John Kennedy of Louisiana and Mike Lee of Utah have confirmedg the letter so far.
领导层选举定于11月10日举行，图恩目前在下届国会参议院少数党领袖竞选中无人竞争。
Leadership elections are set for Nov. 10, and Thune is so far running unopposed for the Senate Minority Leader role in the next Congress.
“我不确定有人想要这份工作，”约翰逊在福克斯新闻采访中说。“我们应该在党团内进行充分、深刻的反思讨论。”
“I’m not sure anybody wants the job,” Johnson said in the Fox News interview. “We ought to have robust, soul-searching discussions in our conference.”