总统公开支持参议员罗杰·马歇尔，后者正面临来自民主党人亚当·汉密尔顿出乎意料的强劲挑战。特朗普此次出现在堪萨斯州，比他那场晦暗且漫谈的98分钟竞选演说所包含的内容更能说明他所属的共和党在下个月将面临的一场即将到来的选举灾难。
The president came out in support of Senator Roger Marshall, who is facing and unexpectedly strong challenge from Democrat Adam Hamilton The fact that Donald Trump was here at all said more about a looming electoral disaster facing his Republican party next month than anything contained in his dark and discursive 98-minute stump speech.
周一，在“美国！美国！”的喧闹喊声中，总统举办了他八年来在堪萨斯州的首次竞选集会。自1932年胡佛总统任职期间、阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特成为首位独自飞越大西洋的女性以及纳粹成为德国帝国议会最大政党以来，堪萨斯州这个红得发紫的州尚未有民主党人赢得过美国参议院席位。
On Monday, amid raucous chants of “USA! USA!”, the president held his first campaign rally in Kansas for eight years. No Democrat has won a US Senate seat in this ruby-red state since 1932, the year Herbert Hoover was president, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the Nazis became the biggest party in the German Reichstag.
