在竞选之路上，特朗普试图摆脱华盛顿的糟糕一周。随着特朗普在全国各地举行集会，他的白宫被一系列戏剧性事件所笼罩，这些事件凸显了他的总统任期如何成为其党在中期选举前景的拖累。
On the Campaign Trail, Trump Tries to Outrun a Bad Week in Washington As Trump held rallies around the nation, his White House was consumed by dramas that reinforce how his presidency has become a drag on his party’s prospects in the midterms.
特朗普总统继续以共和党的救世主自居，他在最近几天里奔走全国，用言语和自身存在明确表明，这次中期选举就是关于他本人的。
President Trump continued to sell himself as the Republican Party’s savior as he crisscrossed the country in recent days, making it clear in words and sheer presence that this midterm election is about him.
但回到国家首都，特朗普先生的白宫被一系列戏剧性事件所吞噬，这些事件强化了为何民调显示，他的总统任期本身已成为共和党选票的拖累。
But back in the nation’s capital, Mr. Trump’s White House was consumed by dramas that reinforced why polls show that his presidency itself has become a drag on Republican tickets.
周一，特朗普先生要求希腊大使金伯利·吉尔福伊尔辞职，此前一系列令人尴尬的报道接连曝光，其中包括她敦促一位捐助者为她的10万美元信用卡债务买单。周四，总统取消了五角大楼原定的直播，该直播本应播放一名陆军军官的处决——该军官因2009年福德堡枪击案被定罪，此举引发两党愤怒。周五，他解雇了仅上任五天的新闻秘书，原因是她的首次亮相表现不佳。
On Monday, Mr. Trump asked for the resignation of Kimberly Guilfoyle, his ambassador to Greece, after a string of embarrassing reports, including that she urged a donor to pay for her $100,000 credit card debt. The president on Thursday canceled the Pentagon’s planned livestream of an execution of the Army officer convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting after bipartisan outrage. And on Friday, he ousted his press secretary of five days after her bumpy debut.
与此同时，白宫顾问办公室正在调查两位特朗普的重要盟友及前政府官员之间的争议，他们因一方被指控在约翰·F·肯尼迪表演艺术中心的资金分配上失当而发生激烈冲突，该争议源自刚果民主共和国向一家得克萨斯州国防公司的一笔交易。此外，政府加深了与联邦法官的对峙，该法官正主持一起挑战总统高尔夫球场计划的诉讼，政府试图让其回避，因为她曾严厉批评联邦官员在未提前通知的情况下砍伐了数百棵成熟树木。
Meantime, the White House Counsel’s Office was investigating a dispute between two prominent Trump allies and former administration officials over claims one of them misallocated funds for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a heated conflict stemming from a transaction from the Democratic Republic of Congo to a Texas defense company. And the administration deepened its standoff with the federal judge presiding over a lawsuit challenging the president’s plan for a golf course, pushing to disqualify her after she excoriated federal officials for ripping up hundreds of mature trees with little notice.
一连串争议唤起了特朗普先生第一个任期的混乱局面，当时他的助手们之间的内斗经常公开化。这一周也体现了特朗普先生的支持率如何因其政府的政策以及笼罩其内圈层的自利行为指控而被拉低。
Together, the string of controversies invoked the chaos of Mr. Trump’s first term, when infighting among his aides regularly burst into public view. The week also encapsulated how Mr. Trump’s approval ratings have been dragged down by his administration’s policies and allegations of self-dealing that have shadowed much of his inner circle.
“感觉就像2020年底，”曾在特朗普先生第一个任期期间在白宫任职的阿丽莎·法拉赫·格里芬说。“几乎有太多混乱了。这就像在从消防水管里喝水，你无法预测接下来这个政府会有什么样的剧情转折。”她补充道：“你根本无法想象一个更糟糕的一周，白宫正迎来中期选举。”根据《纽约时报》对民意调查的平均值，特朗普先生的支持率约为37%，这是他总统任期内的最低水平。
“It feels like late 2020,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in Mr. Trump’s White House during his first term. “There’s almost too much chaos. It's drinking from the fire hose, and you can’t anticipate the next plot twist from this administration.”She added: “You couldn’t dream up a worse week for the White House heading into the midterms.”Mr. Trump's approval rating sits around 37 percent, the lowest of his presidency, according to The New York Times average of polls.
华盛顿邮报-ABC新闻-Ipsos民调于10月9日至13日进行，并在周日发布，结果显示他获得共和党人的支持率从任期初的88%下降至79%。该调查还发现，十年来首次，选民对民主党在经济问题上的信任更高，且有66%的选民表示特朗普先生正利用总统职位来谋取私利。
A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted Oct. 9-13 and released on Sunday shows his approval among Republicans dropped from 88 percent near the start of his term to 79 percent. The survey also found, for the first time in a decade, that voters trust Democrats more on the economy, and 66 percent of voters said Mr. Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself.
福克斯新闻本月的一项民调发现，政府腐败在选民关注的问题中排名第一，其次是通胀、汽油价格、政府领导层和医疗保健。民主党正在主张腐败事实上是导致物价上涨的原因。
A Fox News poll from this month found that government corruption ranked first among voters’ concerns, followed by inflation, gas prices, government leadership and health care. Democrats are making the case that corruption is in fact a cause of higher prices.
“共和党人如果成功保住参议院，将是因为他们成功地与总统的一些政策保持距离，”前参议员、亚利桑那州共和党人、长期批评特朗普的杰夫·弗莱克在接受采访时说。他在拜登政府期间曾担任驻土耳其大使。“而这不是你想要处于的位置。而且不仅仅是政策问题。还有它的古怪。粗俗、粗鲁和低俗的语言。这很糟糕。这对共和党没有帮助。”
“To the extent that Republicans are successful in keeping the Senate, it will be because of their success in distancing themselves from some of the president’s policies,” former Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona and longtime Trump critic who served as ambassador to Turkey in the Biden administration, said in an interview. “And that’s not a position you want to be in. And it’s not just the policies. It’s the weirdness of it. The crass and crude and vulgar language. It’s awful. It doesn’t help Republicans.”
在竞选途中，特朗普没有提及最新的争议。他在六个不同的州举行了集会，从阿拉斯加延伸到佐治亚州，传递着一个熟悉的信息：他的总统任期是无限制的成功，而民主党下个月的胜利将威胁美国的未来。
On the road, Mr. Trump made no mention of the latest controversies. He held rallies in six different states, stretching from Alaska to Georgia, serving up a familiar message: His presidency has been an unbridled success, and Democratic victories next month threaten America’s future.
在特朗普集会被严密保护的泡沫中，主要由MAGA超级粉丝组成的观众热烈响应了总统的这一信息。
Inside the cosseted bubble of a Trump rally, composed largely of MAGA superfans, that message was met with hearty concurrence from the president’s adoring fans.
阿拉斯加瓦西拉市前台办公室行政人员塔拉·格林参加了该集会，她说看到特朗普“是一次终生难得的机会。”她说：“特朗普有远见，虽然可能需要时间，但他正在解决问题。” “我对他充满信任和信心。”然而，即使在他自己的支持者群体中，也出现了特朗普支持率下降的迹象。总统在每场集会上都被抗议者打断，这曾经是罕见的情况。此外，他过去能够轻松坐满的场馆，如今有大片区域空无一人。
Tara Green, a front desk office administrator who attended the rally in Wasilla, Alaska, said seeing Mr. Trump was “an opportunity of a lifetime.”“Trump has a vision, and it might take time, but it is fixing things,” she said. “I have every belief and trust in him.”Still, there were signs of Mr. Trump’s eroding support, even inside his bubble. The president was interrupted by protesters at each of his rallies, once a rare occurrence. And swaths of the arenas, which Mr. Trump used to pack with ease, remained empty.
周六，在肯塔基州海兰德高地特鲁伊斯特竞技场外的贵宾登记处，一名志愿者询问一名身穿“特朗普团队”夹克的特朗普工作人员，他们预计此次集会将有多少人参加。该工作人员表示，他们原本预期会有比实际到场更多的观众。（整个竞技场上层在集会期间一直空无一人。）白宫未对置评请求作出回应。
At a check-in desk for special guests on Saturday outside Truist Arena in Highland Heights, Ky., one volunteer asked a staffer for Mr. Trump how many people they were expecting at the rally. The staffer, outfitted in a “Team Trump” jacket, said they had expected a larger audience than was on hand. (The entire upper level of the arena remained empty during the rally.)
特朗普的结束语也显得特别漫无边际，即便是对于一个自夸自己“编织”能力的人来说也是如此——他用“编织”来形容自己如何在没有明显关联的情况下从一个话题跳到另一个话题。
The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Trump’s closing message also was notably meandering, even for a man who boasts about “the weave,” his description of how he bounces from one topic to another without any discernible connection.
本周，特朗普在大多数集会开场时都称赞了共和党男性候选人的外表。（他似乎特别着迷于来自俄亥俄州的共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特的臀部，并在本周的两场不同集会上提到了这一点。）他回顾了自己在所访问州份的政治成功和胜利幅度，其中大多数州历来是共和党的铁杆票仓，这也表明他的党今年正在捍卫大量阵地。
The president kicked off most rallies this week by praising the appearance of Republican male candidates. (He seemed particularly enthralled by the backside of Senator Jon Husted, Republican of Ohio, bringing it up at two different rallies this week.) He recounted his own political successes and margins of victory in the states he was visiting, most of which are historically Republican strongholds and a sign of how much ground his party is defending this year.
他还提醒选民，如果他们选举共和党人，他将提供一篮子激励措施，并将其从现金奖金扩大到特赦和五角大楼的投资。
And he reminded voters of the basket of incentives he’s offering if they elect Republicans, expanding it from cash bonuses to pardons and investments from the Pentagon.
但即便是总统自己也淡化了他标志性中期选举福利的影响：一个有争议的承诺，即如果共和党人保持对国会的控制，就向每位美国成年人发放5000美元——他称之为“特朗普红利”。
But even the president downplayed the impact of his signature midterm giveaway: a controversial promise to give $5,000 for every American adult — which he calls the “Trump dividend” — if Republicans retain control of Congress.
在描述一对夫妇假设性地讨论如何花这笔钱时，他说：“我们去棕榈滩，和总统共进午餐吧。我们在马阿拉戈吃午餐，花5000美元就能吃到一个汉堡和一小份甜点。”他笑着说，“我不该这么说。”这句话尤其凸显了特朗普一再似乎在淡化选民对生活成本上升的焦虑——这是共和党人试图与他保持距离的一个原因。
Describing a hypothetical conversation about a couple looking to spend the money, “Let’s go to Palm Beach and join the president for lunch. Let’s have lunch at Mar-a-Lago, where for $5,000, you’ll get one hamburger and a small dessert,” he said, with a laugh. “I shouldn’t say that.”That line in particular underscored how Mr. Trump has repeatedly seemed to minimize voter anxieties about rising costs, one reason Republicans have tried distancing themselves from the president.
即使是在集会参与者中，也似乎比往届选举中更多的人表现出警惕，而对特朗普的忠诚似乎比对政策或其政府动荡的担忧更重要。
Even among rally-goers, there seemed more wariness than in earlier elections, and loyalty to Mr. Trump seemed more important than concerns about policy or the turbulence in his administration.
住在佐吉亚州道森维尔、拥有政治学博士学位的特朗普支持者乌斯顿·尤克塞尔承认，他需要努力解决生活成本问题。
Ustun Yuksel, a Trump supporter who has a Ph.D in political science and lives in Dawsonville, Ga., acknowledged that he needs to work on addressing cost of living issues.
“他们肯定可以做得更好，”他说，当时他正在佐治亚州道尔顿等待特朗普的到来。
“They can definitely do better,” he said, while waiting for Mr. Trump in Dalton, Ga.
但他说他喜欢特朗普的外交政策。而且他对讨论白宫的最新头条新闻毫无兴趣。
But he said he likes Mr. Trump’s foreign policy. And he had no interest in discussing the latest headlines out of the White House.
尤克塞尔（Mr. Yuksel）在白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚（Katie Zacharia）被解职的消息传出后不久表示：“我不想谈论这件事。我什么也不想说。”几个小时后，来自田纳西州克利夫兰的保释债券代理人艾米·托马斯（Amy Thomas）在排队等候驶离集会现场的交通堵塞中时，从车里跳出来拍摄特朗普乘坐“海军陆战队一号”离开。她说特朗普“把事情办成了”，当被问及政府内部的动荡时，她则避而不谈。
“I don’t want to talk about it,” Mr. Yuksel said just after the news broke that Katie Zacharia, the White House press secretary, was ousted. “I don’t want to say anything.”A few hours later, as Amy Thomas, a bail bonds agent from Cleveland, Tenn., waited in traffic to exit the rally, she jumped out of her car to capture Mr. Trump depart on Marine One. She said Mr. Trump was “getting the job done” and demurred when asked about the turmoil in the administration.
她在谈到解雇事件和最新戏剧性事件时说：“我的朋友比我关注得更多。”
“My friend follows it more than I do,” she said of the firings and latest drama.