特朗普总统周四对民主党人斯科特·科洛姆在密西西比州参议员选举中意外获胜做出了反应，并将功劳归于这位民主党人为争取共和党选民所做的努力。
President Trump reacted Thursday to Sen.-elect Scott Colom’s (D) upset victory in the Mississippi Senate race, giving credit to the Democrat for his efforts to win over Republican voters.
“我不认识这位先生，但我给他点赞，”特朗普在白宫接受体育评论员斯蒂芬·A·史密斯采访时表示。“我在那里举行了一场集会，排队的人龙长达10英里，他在队伍里竞选——告诉排队的每个人他做得有多好。我为此给他很高的评价。” 科洛姆的竞选团队在社交媒体上发布了一段现已病毒式传播的视频，画面是选举日前几天他在密西西比州科林斯的特朗普集会现场，他在视频中走近排队等候进入总统集会现场的选民，询问他们最关心哪些问题。
“I don’t know the gentleman, but I give him credit,” Trump told sports commentator Stephen A. Smith in an interview at the White House. “I had a rally there, and we had lines that went 10 miles long, and he campaigned on that line — telling everybody in the line what a good job he did. I give him a lot of credit for that.”Colom’s campaign released a now-viral video on social media of him at Trump’s rally in Corinth, Miss., just days ahead of Election Day, in which he approached voters waiting to get into the president’s event and asked them which issues mattered most to them.
片中，许多支持者表示物价高涨是影响他们投票选择的关键问题，尽管也有人公开表达了对特朗普在伊朗的战争和关税政策的反对。截至周四晚间，该视频在Facebook上的观看量近23.9万次，在[平台名称缺失]上约为55.5万次。经过一周多对晚到邮寄选票和宣誓选票的统计，科洛姆实现了此前被认为不可能的事：作为民主党人在密西西比州获胜，而该州在2024年大选中曾以23个百分点的优势支持特朗普。
In the clip, many supporters cited high prices as key issue impacting their choices at the polls, though some openly expressed opposition to Trump’s war in Iran and tariffs. As of Thursday night, the video had nearly 239,000 views on Facebook and around 555,000 on After more than a week of counting late-arriving and affidavit ballots, Colom pulled off what was previously unthinkable: winning as a Democrat in Mississippi, a state Trump won by 23 points in 2024.
《国会山报》的选举结果合作伙伴“决策台总部”（DDHQ）周三预测，科洛姆以约半个百分点的优势击败了参议员辛迪·海德-史密斯（共和党）。
The Hill’s election results partner, Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), projected Wednesday Colom had defeated Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) by a margin of around half a point.
这场胜利对科洛姆来说是一个重大冷门，根据DDHQ的赛前预测，他击败海德-史密斯的几率仅为9%。
The victory was a major upset for Colom, who had just a 9 percent chance of beating Hyde-Smith in DDHQ’s pre-election forecast.
虽然这场胜利令许多政治观察家震惊，但在选举日前确实有一些迹象表明竞争激烈。在竞选最后冲刺阶段，特朗普主要在历史上属于共和党的州和选区举行集会，包括为海德-史密斯在“木兰州”（密西西比州别称）助选。
While the victory is a shock to many political observers, there were some indications of a competitive race ahead of Election Day. In the final stretch of the campaign, Trump rallied primarily in historically Republican states and districts, including in the Magnolia State for Hyde-Smith.
总统继续坚称，包括在周四接受史密斯采访时，共和党失利是因为他没有出现在选票上——尽管他曾多次告诉选民假装他在选票上。
The president continues to insist, including in Thursday’s interview with Smith, that Republicans lost because he was not on the ballot — though he told voters on many occasions to pretend he was.
科洛姆成为密西西比州历史上首位由普选产生的黑人参议员，也是该州历史上第三位黑人参议员——前两位是重建时期由立法机构任命的。黑人占密西西比州人口的三分之一以上。
Colom became the first Black senator ever elected by popular vote in Mississippi and only the third in the state’s history — the other two being legislature-appointees from the Reconstruction era. Black Mississippians make up more than one-third of the state’s population.
这位当选参议员与现任参议员有过交集；2023年，时任总统拜登提名科洛姆出任联邦法官，海德-史密斯阻止了他的确认听证会。如今，科洛姆阻止了海德-史密斯赢得第二个完整的参议员任期。
The senator-elect and incumbent have history together; Hyde-Smith blocked Colom from receiving a confirmation hearing in 2023 after then-President Biden nominated him to become a federal judge. Now, Colom has blocked Hyde-Smith from winning a second full term in the upper chamber.