华盛顿邮报 特朗普爱荷华州取得压倒性胜利(1)

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On Monday night, Iowa Republicans will meet in community centers and high-school gyms across the state. 周一晚上，爱荷华州共和党人将在全州各地的社区中心和高中体育馆举行集会。

They'll be the first voters in the country to choose who they want to be president.

他们将成为美国第一批选举总统的选民。

And in the final days before the caucuses¹, we wanted to know what Iowans are saying and how campaigns are strategizing, so we called three reporters. Michael Scherer...

在举行党团会议前的最后几天，我们想知道爱荷华人在说什么，以及竞选团队是如何制定策略的，因此，我们给三名记者打了电话。分别是迈克尔·谢勒……I'm a national political reporter for The Post, and I've been covering these Iowa things since -- I guess 2008, 2007 was my first cycle.

我是《华盛顿邮报》的一名国家政治记者，我从2008年、2007年开始报道爱荷华州的事情。

...Hannah Knowles...

…汉娜·诺里斯……

I'm a campaign reporter for The Post, and I've mostly been following Governor DeSantis. 我是《华盛顿邮报》的竞选记者，我主要关注的是德桑蒂斯州长。

This is my first presidential election I've covered, so everything's new and exciting.

这是我第一次报道总统大选，所以一切都很新鲜，令人兴奋。

...and Meryl Kornfield.

…梅丽尔·康菲尔德。

I'm also a campaign reporter at the Washington Post, and I am not really covering anyone specifically, just kind of roaming around Iowa looking for things to write about.

我也是《华盛顿邮报》的一名竞选记者，我并没有专访人物，只是在爱荷华州四处游走，寻找可以写的东西。

They've all been covering the 2024 presidential race in Iowa, where Trump² has a wide lead in the polls.

他们都在报道2024年爱荷华州的总统竞选。特朗普在爱荷华州的民意调查中遥遥领先。

At the beginning, of this cycle, it didn't look like it was going to be that way, but as this campaign has unfolded, Trump has pulled into a pretty commanding lead in the place where his rivals really wanted to first draw blood to sort of show that this guy was mortal, to show that he wasn't a king getting coronated.

在这轮竞选的开始，似乎事情不会这样发展。但是，随着这场竞选的展开，特朗普已经取得了相当大的领先优势。特朗普的竞争对手真的想先发制人，以表明这个人是凡人，表明他不是一个被加冕的国王。

Now it looks like it may end up showing that a king is more or less getting coronated with more than 50% of the vote.

现在看来，最终的结果可能是，国王差不多要获得超过50%的选票才能获得加冕。

There's still some suspense³. It's not like it's over. 仍然有一些悬念。还没结束呢。

The race is not going to be done after Iowa, but Trump is clearly in a much stronger position than most people thought at the beginning of this.

爱荷华州之后的竞选还没结束，但特朗普显然比大多数人一开始想象的要强大得多。

Today, where things stand in Iowa just a few days before the caucuses and why the winner in Iowa doesn't always become the nominee⁴.

今天，爱荷华州距离党团会议举行只有几天的时间了，为什么爱荷华州的获胜者并不总是会成为提名者。

So, Meryl, I know that you've been on the ground in Iowa going around the state. 梅丽尔，我知道你一直在爱荷华州四处走动，进行实地考察。

And earlier in the week, we talked to our colleague Isaac Arnsdorf about Trump and particularly Republican support for Trump, which I find interesting because he is facing a couple criminal indictments⁵ right now. 本周早些时候，我们与我们的同事艾萨克·阿恩斯多夫谈论了特朗普，特别是共和党对特朗普的支持。我觉得这很有趣，因为他现在正面临几起刑事起诉。

So I guess I just want to understand his support a little more.

我只是想多了解一下他获得的支持。

And I know you've talked to a couple people like these two voters named Annie Smith and John Yon. 我知道你还采访过像安妮·史密斯和约翰·杨这样的选民。

What did they tell you? Like, what is it that people like about Trump and are really gravitating to right now?

他们跟你说了什么? 比如，人们喜欢特朗普哪里，以及现在真正吸引人们的是什么?