SABRINA TAVERNISE2026年11月5日 From Texas to Maine, Democratic voters thronged to the polls on Tuesday. Independents turned their backs on President Trump. And Republicans seemed to be slipping out of the thrall of a president who has defined American politics for a decade.从得克萨斯州到缅因州，民主党选民周二踊跃前往投票站。独立选民背弃特朗普总统。共和党人似乎也开始摆脱这位过去十年来一直主导美国政治的总统的影响。In interviews and at the ballot box, voters declared that they were unhappy with the way things were going in their country and wanted a change.无论是在接受采访时，还是通过手中的选票，选民们都明确表达了对国家现状的不满，以及寻求改变的愿望。In 2024, Joshua Buchanan, 39, a train-design engineer in Woodruff, S.C., voted for Mr. Trump. Two years later, he had regrets.2024年，39岁的约书亚·布坎南把票投给了特朗普。他是一名火车设计工程师，住在南卡罗来纳州的伍德拉夫。两年后，他对当初的选择感到后悔。“I probably made the wrong choice,” said Mr. Buchanan, who this time voted for Annie Andrews, the Democratic candidate for Senate. Her victory over the Trump-endorsed Republican, Darline Graham, would have been unimaginable not that long ago.“我可能选错了人，”布坎南说。这一次，他把票投给了民主党参议员候选人安妮·安德鲁斯。安德鲁斯击败了特朗普支持的共和党候选人达琳·格雷厄姆。就在不久前，这样的胜利还是难以想象的。Donald Trump took the American political system by storm a decade ago, electrifying working-class voters with his hard-edge populist message. But as the back half of his second term draws near, his job approval has collapsed under the weight of unpopular economic policies and a war with Iran.十年前，唐纳德·特朗普以雷霆之势席卷美国政坛，凭借强硬的民粹主义主张激起了工薪阶层选民的热情。然而，随着第二个总统任期即将进入后半程，不受欢迎的经济政策和对伊朗的战争令他的施政满意度大幅下滑。Democrats, who were dejected just two years ago, vibrated with fury — and determination to go to the polls. The actual candidates for governor, Senate or the House could seem almost secondary.两年前还意志消沉的民主党人如今满怀愤怒，决心前往投票站投下一票。至于竞选州长、参议员或众议员的具体候选人是谁，似乎反倒成了次要问题。“I would crawl on my belly over broken glass to vote against that awful man,” said Ronan Donohoe, 85, a retired high school history teacher in Portsmouth, N.H.“就算要趴在地上，从满地碎玻璃上爬过去，我也要投票反对那个可恶的家伙，”85岁的罗南·多诺霍说。他是新罕布什尔州朴次茅斯的一名退休高中历史教师。罗南·多诺霍 Sabrina Shankman for The New York TimesHe said his vote on Tuesday for Democrats was about “letting everybody know that we are fed up with everything the Trump administration stands for, and that we want better.”他说，自己周二投票支持民主党，就是为了“让所有人知道，我们已经受够了特朗普政府所代表的一切，我们想要更好的”。In interviews, voters often expressed frustration with how much life costs. Prices are still considerably higher than before the pandemic, but voters said that Mr. Trump, who had promised to lower prices in 2024, now seemed to shrug off their concerns.在采访中，不少选民抱怨现在的生活开销让人吃不消。物价仍远高于疫情前的水平，选民们表示，特朗普曾在2024年承诺降低物价，如今却似乎对他们的担忧不以为然。“He wouldn’t know what it is to pull into a gas station and put gas in your car,” said Suzanne Murray, 78, a retired hairdresser in Peoria, a suburb near Phoenix. “He wouldn’t know what it is to go into a grocery store and buy groceries on a limited income.”“他根本不知道开车去加油站给车加油是什么感受，”78岁的苏珊娜·默里说。她是一位住在凤凰城附近郊区皮奥里亚的退休理发师。“他也不知道收入有限的人去超市买日用品是什么感受。”She added: “He’s so reckless with the United States.”她还补充说：“他对美国实在太不负责任了。”Ms. Murray has leaned toward Democrats, but Republicans expressed exasperation with Mr. Trump, too. The reasons included affordability, the Epstein files and corruption. And a number of more traditional Republicans said in interviews that they no longer recognized their party.默里一向倾向于支持民主党，但共和党选民也对特朗普表达了不满。原因包括生活成本、爱泼斯坦案文件以及腐败问题。一些较为传统的共和党人在采访中表示，如今的共和党已经让他们感到陌生。“The Republican Party has lost its way,” said Van Z. Hampton, 71, a registered Republican in Dodge City, Kansas, who said he had voted straight ticket Democrat the first time since Jimmy Carter in 1976. Mr. Hampton, a retired Kansas state judge, voted for Mr. Trump twice, but has become repelled by what he described as unbridled corruption.“共和党已经迷失了方向，”71岁的范·汉普顿说。他是堪萨斯州道奇城的一名注册共和党选民，自1976年吉米·卡特竞选总统以来，他第一次在选举中把票全投给了民主党候选人。这位堪萨斯州退休法官曾两次投票支持特朗普，但现在，他说肆无忌惮的腐败现象令他深恶痛绝。“The ship was hijacked by thieves,” he said referring to the Trump administration’s stewardship of the U.S. government. “It’s going in the wrong direction — toward their shore to loot it and unload it.”“这艘船被一群小偷劫持了，”他谈到特朗普政府对美国政府的管理时说。“它正朝错误方向驶去——驶向他们的岸边，去掠夺和卸货。”For Dan Bailey, a sanitation driver from Glen Cove, N.Y, it was Mr. Trump’s casual brushoff of the Epstein files, and Mr. Trump’s cabinet, who included, he said, “a secretary of war who doesn’t know anything about war.”对纽约州格伦科夫的环卫司机丹·贝利来说，让他无法接受的是特朗普对爱泼斯坦案文件的轻描淡写，以及特朗普的内阁成员，其中包括一位在他看来“对战争一窍不通的战争部长”。“I am so fed up with being lied to,” said Mr. Bailey, who said he hasn’t voted for much of his adult life, but showed up and voted straight ticket Democrat on Tuesday. “I feel that there has to be some sort of change. I’m hoping my little bit can make a difference.”“我真是受够了这些谎言，”贝利说。他表示，成年以来的大部分时间里，自己都没有参加投票，但周二他去了投票站，把所有选票都投给了民主党候选人。“我觉得必须有所改变。我希望我的一点点努力能起作用。”While the night may have delivered a sweeping win for Democrats, it was far from a mandate. Many Republicans and independents said they defected simply to stop a president they say no longer represents them.尽管周二晚可能为民主党带来一场压倒性胜利，但这远远算不上选民向民主党授予了全面施政的委托。许多共和党和独立选民表示，他们之所以转而支持民主党，仅仅是为了阻止一位他们认为已不再代表自己的总统。丹·贝利 Nate Schweber for The New York TimesMr. Hampton, the retired Kansas judge, for example, had advice for Democrats who won on Tuesday: They won votes “not because we love you, but because we need you to do the right thing. Be wise about support you got.”例如，退休堪萨斯法官汉普顿给周二获胜的民主党人提出建议：他们赢得选票“不是因为我们爱你们，而是因为我们需要你们做正确的事。要明智地对待你们得到的支持”。Many voters expressed deep discomfort about where they fit in the political system. Many said they felt politically homeless. Mr. Trump has so defined the Republican Party that it was hard to predict what it would mean when he leaves office. And many voters also struggled to define the Democratic Party, beyond its opposition to Mr. Trump.许多选民对他们在政治体系中的位置深感不安。许多人说他们感到政治上无家可归。特朗普对共和党的影响如此深刻，以至于很难预测他卸任后这个党会变成什么样。而除了反对特朗普之外，许多选民同样说不清民主党究竟代表什么。“There’s no Republicans or Democrats anymore,” said A.J. Asci, 49, who works in the hotel industry in Savannah, Ga. “America looks more confusing than ever.”“现在已经没有什么共和党人或民主党人了，”49岁的A.J.阿斯吉说。他在佐治亚州萨凡纳的酒店业工作。“美国看上去比以往任何时候都更让人摸不着头脑。”Mr. Asci immigrated from Turkey and became a citizen 18 years ago. He said he had learned everything about life in America from his neighbor at the time, whom he still visits in a nursing home. But life in America today feels unstable: He does not think he will be able to afford to retire here.阿斯吉从土耳其移民美国，18年前成为美国公民。他说，自己关于美国生活的一切知识都是从当年的一位邻居那里学来的。如今，他仍会去养老院探望这位邻居。但如今在美国生活，他越来越感到前途难料：他认为自己将来恐怕负担不起这里的退休生活。And he thinks the money flooding into politics is gumming up the wheels of American democracy.他还认为，涌入政治的资金正在阻碍美国民主制度的正常运转。“You cannot get justice and uphold the laws if you get paid by somebody else,” he said. “It’s a crooked system.”“如果你拿了别人的钱，就不可能维护正义、捍卫法律，”他说。“这是一个腐败的制度。”Many voters talked about their distress at the vitriol that has overtaken political discourse, and said they voted in part to counter it.许多选民谈到了政治言论日益充斥恶意攻击给他们带来的痛苦，并表示投票在一定程度上就是为了抵制这种风气。Sheldon McCormick, 68, a handyman standing outside his polling station in Waldo, Maine, said he would vote for anybody who stood up for civility.68岁的谢尔登·麦考密克是一名杂工。站在缅因州沃尔多的投票站外，他说，只要有人愿意挺身维护文明，他就愿意投票支持。“For me, decency can go a long way,” he said. “There’s good in the world, and it’s time to get back to it.”“对我来说，体面正派能带来很大的改变，”他说。“这个世界仍有美好的一面，现在是时候重新找回它了。”A registered independent, Mr. McCormick said he split his ticket, voting for Susan Collins, the Republican senator, and Matt Dunlap, the Democratic candidate for Congress.麦考密克是注册独立选民，自己这次没有只投一个政党的票，而是分别支持了共和党籍联邦参议员苏珊·柯林斯和民主党籍联邦众议员候选人马特·邓拉普。拉蒙特·费舍尔 Jillian Anthony for The New York TimesLamont Fisher, 46, an independent voter in Austin, Texas, expressed similar distaste for the country’s angry politics.得克萨斯州奥斯汀市46岁的独立选民拉蒙特·费舍尔也同样反感美国政坛剑拔弩张的氛围。“Why be so extreme that we can’t accept someone else’s viewpoints?” said Mr. Fisher, a broadband network tech who grew up in a Republican family. “We’re all in the same country at the end of the day.”“为什么非得走向极端，以至于我们无法接受别人的观点？”费舍尔说。他是一名宽带网络技术员，在一个共和党家庭中长大。“说到底，我们都生活在同一个国家。”He said he had voted for James Talarico, who will be the first Democratic senator from Texas in decades.他说，自己把票投给了詹姆斯·塔拉里科。塔拉里科将成为几十年来得克萨斯州首位民主党籍联邦参议员。“His view is, I want purple,” Mr. Fisher said. “That’s what I believe in too.”“他的理念是，希望看到红蓝两党携手合作，”费舍尔说。“这也是我所认同的。”Not everyone feels that way. A number of G.O.P. voters said they were perfectly happy with Mr. Trump, and voted the straight Republican ticket with a light heart.但并非所有人都这么想。一些共和党选民表示，他们对特朗普十分满意，也心无顾虑地把票全部投给了共和党候选人。“I don’t live with the guy,” said Ofelia Armendarez, a registrar clerk at an elementary school in Visalia, Calif., who voted for Trump three times. “If he’s doing the job correctly, that’s all that matters to me.”“我又不跟他住在一起，”加州维塞利亚一所小学的登记员奥费利娅·阿门达雷斯说。她三次投票给特朗普。“只要他把工作做好了，对我来说这就够了。”One of their biggest concerns was a takeover by democratic socialists, which far eclipsed any frustration with Mr. Trump.这些选民最担心的问题之一是民主社会主义者可能夺取政治权力。在他们看来，这种威胁远远超过了他们对特朗普的任何不满。Patricia Fay, 69, a retired software engineer in Phoenix, said she does not typically vote a straight Republican ticket, but did on Tuesday.凤凰城69岁的退休软件工程师帕特里夏·费伊说，她通常不会全部投给共和党，但周二这么做了。帕特里夏·费伊 Jonathan Higuera for The New York Times“I don’t want Arizona to become another New York or Southern California,” she said. Socialists, she said, want “everything for free.”“我不希望亚利桑那州变成另一个纽约或南加州，”她说。在她看来，社会主义者希望“一切都免费”。Still, others were excited about progressive candidates.不过，也有一些选民对进步派候选人充满热情。Jeff Fawaz, 42, who owns oil change and auto shops in Dearborn, Mich., voted for Mr. Trump twice, because of his promises to stop wars and help small business owners. “I just believed him,” he said of Mr. Trump. Now, he thinks that “he’s the most bought and paid-for president I’ve ever seen.”42岁的杰夫·法瓦兹在密歇根州迪尔伯恩经营着几家汽车换油店和维修店。他曾两次投票支持特朗普，因为特朗普承诺结束战争，并帮助小企业主。“我当时就是相信了他，”法瓦兹谈到特朗普时说。现在，他认为特朗普“是我见过的最彻底被金钱收买的总统”。On Tuesday, he voted for the Democrat for Senate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.周二，他投票给了民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德医生。Jillian Anthony、Murray Carpenter、Jonathan J. Higuera、Ryan Patrick Hooper、Caitlin Philippo、Nate Schweber、Sabrina Shankman和Tiffany Tan对本文有报道贡献。Sabrina Tavernise是时报撰稿人，主要关注美国的政治生活以及美国人如何看待华盛顿的变化。翻译：杜然点击查看本文英文版。