一位参议员称共和党刚刚遭遇了一场“传统意义上的惨败”，如今共和党正转入大选后反思中更为痛苦的阶段：公开宣泄不满。
Fresh off what one senator called a “good old-fashioned shellacking,” Republicans are now turning to a more painful phase of their post-election soul-searching: the airing of grievances.
多位参议员对在选民否定共和党在华盛顿的执政地位后，匆忙推动重新选举共和党参议院领导层表示不满。一小部分但声音响亮的少数派正推动将领导层选举推迟到周二之后，以便为潜在挑战者提供更多时间，对多数党领袖约翰·图恩及其团队发起挑战。
Several senators are unhappy about a rush to reelect the GOP’s Senate leadership team after voters repudiated the party’s reign in Washington. A small but vocal minority is pushing to delay leadership elections beyond Tuesday, giving more time for a potential challenger to emerge against Majority Leader John Thune and his team.
图恩的盟友称此举毫无必要，不会改变结果，只会在一场可能让参议院共和党损失多达九个席位的选举后，引发更多党内斗争。无论哪种情况，共和党对图恩和唐纳德·特朗普总统的再三审视——更不用说对自身议程的迷茫——将于周二上午在旧参议院会议厅达到高潮。
Thune’s allies say the move is unnecessary, won’t change the result, and will only lead to more intraparty fighting after an election that could cost the Senate GOP as many as nine seats. Either way, the party’s second-guessing of Thune and President Donald Trump — not to mention its uncertainty about its own agenda — will come to a head on Tuesday morning in the Old Senate Chamber.
“我看到一封信上有五个签名，”参议员凯文·克拉默（共和党-北达科他州）对Semafor表示，指的是主张推迟的同僚。“我认为我们需要对话，但我看不出为什么必须更换领导层才能进行对话。”在这场程序之争的表象之下，是共和党内部关于何去何从的重大辩论。一个在特朗普不得人心的对伊朗战争和关税政策上几乎未作抵制的政党，现在必须弄清该做出何种战略调整——或者，也许根本不做任何调整。
“I saw five signatures on a letter,” Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., told Semafor of his colleagues advocating for a delay. “I think we have to talk, but I don’t see why we’d need to change the leadership to do that.”Beneath the procedural battle are huge debates within the Republican Party about where to turn next. A party that did little to defy Trump’s unpopular war with Iran and his tariffs now must figure out what strategic adjustments to make — or, perhaps, whether to make none at all.
克雷默将这场惨败归咎于“与加拿大的糟糕谈判、关税、对乌克兰支持不足以结束战争”以及允许更多外国牛肉进入美国。他说，“对选举结果过度惊讶的人”“可能对自己不诚实。”
Cramer blamed the stunning losses on “bad negotiations with Canada, tariffs, not supporting Ukraine enough to end the war” and allowing more foreign beef into the US. He said “people who are overly surprised” by the election result “probably aren’t being honest with themselves.”
即将卸任的参议员乔尼·恩斯特（共和党-爱荷华州）称这是一场“惨败”，她说“伊朗战争极不得人心。我不知道国务卿正在向总统汇报什么，但这不管用。”
Retiring Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who dubbed it a “shellacking,” said the “war in Iran is extremely unpopular. I don’t know what the secretary is briefing the president [on], but it’s not working.”
参议员乔什·霍利（共和党-密苏里州）说：“我们需要进行一次艰难的家庭谈话。我们刚刚失去了七个参议院席位。可能还有更多。”“我在这些事后总结中看到了很多推卸责任的现象。我认为国会里的人大概该为国会所做的事承担责任了。”霍利列举了医疗补助削减、共和党与数据中心关系过近、背离反堕胎优先事项，以及“抛弃”穷人和工人阶级。他说，他目前无法承诺将把票投给图恩或领导层的其他成员。
“We need to have a tough, family conversation. We just lost seven Senate seats. And there may be more,” said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo. “I see a lot of blame shifting going on in all of these postmortems. I think it’s probably time for people in Congress to take responsibility for what Congress did.”Hawley cited Medicaid cuts, the GOP’s closeness to data centers, its turn away from anti-abortion priorities, and its move to “abandon” poor people and the working class. He said he couldn’t pledge his vote to Thune or the rest of the leadership team right now.
领导推迟领导层选举工作的参议员罗恩·约翰逊（共和党-威斯康星州）措辞更为严厉：“在遭受那种惨败后，我们就是不能照常营业。我是说……那种失败要求变革。”
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who is leading the effort to delay the leadership election, was even more harsh: “After that stunning defeat, we just can’t continue on business as usual. I mean … that kind of defeat demands change.”
约翰逊说：“你不能在遭受那样的失败后，就强行推进选举，让那支领导班子以鼓掌通过的方式当选。这令人反感，尤其是在此时。”特朗普周一表示，由共和党参议员决定图恩的人选，他称图恩是“非常好的人”，但遗憾地表示“希望他们能多出些成果”。图恩说，他看不出推迟选举“能解决任何问题”，但同意共和党需要讨论其未来。
“You can’t come off a defeat like that and just ram through elections and just elect that leadership team by acclamation,” Johnson said. “It’s obnoxious, particularly at this moment.”Trump said on Monday that it’s up to the GOP senators to make a call on Thune, calling him a “very fine man” but lamenting that he wishes “they could get more produced.”Thune said he didn’t see how delaying the election “solves anything” but agreed the GOP needs to discuss its future.
约翰逊提出推迟领导层选举，意味着共和党将在周二上午9点召开特别党团会议，然后再就领导层选举进行任何投票。
Johnson’s bid to delay the leadership elections means that before taking any votes on them, the GOP will have a special conference meeting beginning at 9 a.m. on Tuesday.
随后，他们将投票决定是否推迟图恩及其余领导层成员的选举。领导层成员包括来自怀俄明州的党鞭约翰·巴拉索、来自阿肯色州的会议主席汤姆·科顿、来自西弗吉尼亚州的政策主席、参议员雪莱·摩尔·卡皮托（共和党），以及来自俄克拉荷马州的会议副主席詹姆斯·兰克福德。共和党预计还将选出来自俄亥俄州的参议员伯尼·莫雷诺（共和党）——特朗普的核心盟友——担任新任竞选委员会主席。
They will then vote on whether to delay the elections of Thune and the rest of the leadership team, which includes Whip John Barrasso of Wyoming; Conference Chair Tom Cotton of Arkansas; Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., the policy chair; and Conference Vice Chair James Lankford of Oklahoma. The GOP is also expected to select Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, a top ally of Trump, as its new campaign chair.
2022年，共和党失去一个参议院席位后，类似的推迟选举动议失败了。尽管本月的失利规模大出几个数量级，但有几位共和党参议员表示，他们不认为此次投票会通过。有人认为，推迟选举的举动不过是为了削弱图恩地位的烟幕弹。
A similar delay bid failed in 2022 after the GOP lost one Senate seat. Though the losses this month are several magnitudes greater, several Republican senators said they don’t expect the vote to prevail. Some think the effort to delay is merely a smokescreen to undercut Thune.
卡皮托对Semafor表示：“这是一个明天会提到的问题：如果想要更换领导层，那就直接更换领导层。我感觉不到这种意愿，所以我认为我们应该按计划推进。我们将进行投票，少数服从多数。”
“This is a question that will come up tomorrow: If there’s a desire for a leadership change, then let’s make the leadership change. I don’t sense that, and so I think we ought to just move forward as planned. We’ll have a vote, the majority will rule,” Capito told Semafor.
她说，这次选举是给共和党的警钟，要更严肃地对待美国民众对物价上涨的担忧：“信息收到了。”但这并不意味着一定会转化为终结特朗普关税或结束伊朗战争的具有约束力的两党行动。无论哪种想法要在参议院通过，都需要共和党的票——即使参议院可能出现强劲的56席民主党多数、众议院多数达到250多席，特朗普仍可动用否决权。
She said the election was a wakeup call for Republicans to take Americans’ concerns about rising prices more seriously: “Message received.”That doesn’t mean it will necessarily translate into a binding bipartisan effort to end Trump’s tariffs or wind down the Iran war. And for either idea to clear the Senate, the GOP’s votes will be required — even with what could be a brawny 56-seat Democratic majority in the Senate and a House majority in the 250s, Trump can still wield the veto pen.
肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗（共和党）表示：“归根结底，我认为教训是：我们需要参议员以更独立的方式行事。但即使是非常独立的苏珊·柯林斯也没能幸免，因为整场选举都变成了关于唐纳德·特朗普，以及他是否关心汽油价格。”
“Ultimately, I think the lesson is: We needed senators to act in a more independent fashion. But even Susan Collins — who was very independent — didn’t survive it because the whole election became about Donald Trump and whether he was concerned about gas prices,” said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
保罗总结说，选民“只是很愤怒”。保罗表示，在经过一次“坦诚的讨论”后，他大概率接受周二进行领导层投票。他补充说，他希望选举结束后能有更多共和党人加入他，一起投票反对伊朗战争和关税。
Voters, Paul concluded, “were just mad.”Paul said he was probably OK with a leadership vote on Tuesday after a “frank discussion.”He added that his hope coming out of the election would be more Republicans joining him in voting against the Iran war and tariffs.
参议院共和党可能不会迎来变革。但在国会山另一端，众议院共和党将经历一次大规模洗牌，他们将在俄亥俄州共和党众议员吉姆·乔丹和路易斯安那州共和党众议员史蒂夫·斯卡利斯之间选出新的少数党领袖。
Change may not come for the Senate GOP. But across the Capitol, House Republicans will see a big shakeup as they choose a new minority leader in a race between Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Steve Scalise, R-La.
图恩甚至没有对手，很难想象他周二不会连任领袖的情形。但共和党内部的愤怒是真实的，也许还有些方向错误。
Thune doesn’t even have a challenger, it’s hard to see a scenario where he isn’t reelected as leader on Tuesday. But the anger within the Republican Party is real, and perhaps a bit misdirected.
除了保罗，鲜有参议员愿意为党的惨败怪罪特朗普，但中期选举既是对总统的公投，也是对国会的公投。
Few senators beyond Paul want to blame Trump for the party’s crushing losses, but midterms are as much a referendum on the president as they are on the Congress.
这只是共和党内部一场漫长而痛苦辩论的开始，辩论的主题是共和党是否仍是特朗普的党——或者他们是否应当改弦易辙，前提是他们有能力做到。
This is just the beginning of what’s going to be a long and painful debate within the GOP about whether Republicans are still Trump’s party — or whether they should change course, if they’re capable of it.