2026年2月9日 11:04 UTC（路透社）
2月9日电 – 乔伊斯·肯尼（Joyce Kenney）现在对唐纳德·特朗普的支持比2024年投票时更加坚定。
“我随时愿意为他投票，”这位74岁的亚利桑那州普雷斯科特谷退休人员表示。
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随着特朗普进入总统任期的第二年，肯尼希望他能继续推进打击政府浪费和欺诈的运动，削减老年人的开支，并驱逐更多有犯罪行为的移民——但同时也让守法移民更容易留在美国，包括那些非法入境者。
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“他需要对非法移民采取更温和的方式，不能只说非黑即白，因为凡事都有灰色地带，”她说，”我们也需要对非美国人表现出更多的人性。”
面对全国范围内针对其移民政策的抗议、日益增长的生活成本抱怨，以及与丹麦到哥伦比亚等多国的紧张关系，肯尼和其他19位特朗普选民向路透社讲述了他们希望他在新的一年里实现的目标。
几乎所有人都称赞他第一年的表现。他们支持的政策包括：美国城市中移民执法力度飙升、对贸易伙伴加征关税、大幅削减联邦劳动力，以及抓捕委内瑞拉总统。
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特朗普在中期选举前需兑现承诺
路透社过去一年每月采访的这些选民表示，随着11月中期选举临近，共和党需要保持国会控制权的压力越来越大，他们希望总统在未来几个月里继续推动变革。
其中6名选民对特朗普任期迄今为止几乎没有批评，3人对他去年的表现非常不满。其余11人的评价则更为复杂，但没有人后悔当初的投票。
选民们最希望特朗普追求的目标是移民改革，以及比外交政策更聚焦国内议题——医疗改革、削减公共项目欺诈行为和降低国债。
14人对总统近期关于吞并外国领土的言论以及通过社交媒体帖子煽动分裂的倾向感到失望。
“我希望他能真正更多地关注美国，”华盛顿州34岁的失业会计师罗伯特·比卢普斯（Robert Billups）表示。
比卢普斯投票给特朗普，希望获得更便宜的医疗保健和更透明的政府支出。尽管他认为这些方面几乎没有改善，但他仍然认为特朗普”可能是2024年选举中最好的选择”。
白宫发言人库什·德赛（Kush Desai）在一份声明中回应称：”特朗普政府仍将重点放在继续降低通胀、加速经济增长、确保边境安全以及大规模驱逐有犯罪行为的非法移民上。”
特朗普的关税政策、对持不同意见的美国法官和官员的蔑视，以及近期关于接管格陵兰岛等国家的” saber-rattling（虚张声势）”言论，使他在佛罗里达州坦帕市65岁的促销产品经销商史蒂夫·伊根（Steve Egan）那里得到了”不及格”的评价。
伊根表示，他对2026年的主要期望是特朗普”坚守本分”，不要引发宪法危机。
“特朗普卸任后，很遗憾，我一般不会投票给民主党，但如果有民主党人说得比特朗普更理智，我可能会投他一票，”伊根说。
移民改革
选民今年最迫切的要求是为已在为美国经济做贡献的守法移民制定更清晰的合法身份获取途径。特朗普在第一任期内曾支持过一些此类措施，但重新执政后尚未推进。
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去年春天，14位选民告诉路透社，他们希望特朗普放宽对合格外国人的合法化条件。今年1月，8位选民表示移民改革应是第二年的优先事项。
26岁的圣地亚哥附近内容创作者胡安·里维拉（Juan Rivera）有一些亲属正在申请美国合法居留权，还有一些亲属在边境巡逻队工作。他表示，特朗普没有推进移民改革让他”有点失望”。
里维拉是加利福尼亚州共和党拉丁裔外联工作者，他说优先考虑移民改革将有助于共和党在11月的中期选举中获胜。
“拉丁裔选民、亚裔选民，他们投票给总统，是因为他们希望看到移民改革，”里维拉说，”我认为并非所有共和党人都意识到，如果没有这些选民，总统就不会获胜。”
在全国范围内，宾夕法尼亚州监狱工作人员兼前国民警卫队员布兰登·纽迈斯特（Brandon Neumeister），36岁，也希望总统今年能重点关注移民改革。
“如果他们在这里，并且一直有贡献、没有惹麻烦，我觉得这就是我们想要的人，”纽迈斯特说。
他补充道，政府应该创造”更简化的公民身份获取方法”，而不是在移民”在社区中扎根数十年后”才驱逐他们。
与里维拉和纽迈斯特一样，犹他州圣乔治的莱莎·桑德伯格（Lesa Sandberg）表示，她支持特朗普加强美国边境安全的努力，但”希望同样重视让非法移民合法留在这里，就像打击犯罪一样”。
据机构统计，截至1月底，美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）拘留的约6万人中，约44%没有未决刑事指控或前科。
‘冷静点’
和大多数选民一样，桑德伯格希望特朗普今年继续推行其标志性的经济政策。
58岁的桑德伯格经营着一家会计公司，出租房产，并为一个共和党政治行动委员会工作。她说，去年的放松管制举措和减税让她”满意”且”充满希望”。她表示，自己的食品和汽油账单有所下降，尽管美国劳工统计局1月份数据显示全国食品价格上涨，汽油价格下降。
但桑德伯格不确定特朗普计划如何为将军事预算比国会批准的水平增加三分之二提供资金，也想知道联邦效率部（DOGE）削减联邦劳动力后节省的资金去向。
“特朗普在2026年的首要任务应该是平衡该死的预算，停止债务增长，”桑德伯格说。
密歇根州65岁的飞行员特里·阿尔伯塔（Terry Alberta）也表示，尽管”在我看来经济状况很好”，但他希望特朗普今年能更多地遏制政府浪费。
“我对DOGE和所有这些措施寄予厚望，我以为我们真的能解决问题，但你只是把一大笔钱从一个群体转移到另一个群体，”阿尔伯塔说，”我没看到赤字实际上在下降。”
阿尔伯塔还对特朗普动辄抨击批评者的倾向表示不满。”别让那些与你意见不同的人激动起来。冷静点，”他说。
在佐治亚州，54岁的机械工程师兼工业供应公司客户经理大卫·弗格森（David Ferguson）表示，特朗普应该继续努力通过关税和其他手段将制造业转移回美国。
弗格森同意阿尔伯塔的观点，即特朗普”有时表现出的某种傲慢有点过了头”，但他认为”这对他要做的事情有帮助”。
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As Trump presidency enters second year, his voters share hopes – and concerns
February 9, 2026 11:04 AM UTC / Reuters
Feb 9 – Joyce Kenney is even happier with Donald Trump today than when she voted for him in 2024.
“I would gladly vote for him any time,” said the 74-year-old retiree in Prescott Valley, Arizona.
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As Trump heads into the second year of his presidency, Kenney hopes he continues his crusade against government waste and fraud, cuts costs for senior citizens, and deports more criminal immigrants – but also makes it easier for law-abiding immigrants to stay in the U.S., even those who entered illegally.
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“He needs to find a gentler way on the illegal aliens, not to just say everything’s black or white, because there is a lot of gray in everything,” she said. “We need to show a lot more humanity to people that are not Americans as well.”
With Trump confronting nationwide protests against his immigration policies, mounting cost-of-living complaints, and tensions with countries from Denmark to Colombia, Kenney and 19 other Trump voters spoke to Reuters about what they want him to accomplish in the year ahead.
Almost all of them praised his first-year performance. They backed policies that polls – surging immigration enforcement in U.S. cities, tariffs on trading partners, deep cuts to the federal workforce and capturing Venezuela’s president.
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TRUMP UNDER PRESSURE TO DELIVER BEFORE MIDTERMS IN NOVEMBER
The voters – whom Reuters has spoken with monthly for the past year – said they hoped the president would deliver further change in the months ahead, as pressure builds to help his fellow Republicans keep control of Congress in November’s midterm elections.
Six of the voters had virtually no criticism of Trump’s presidency to date, while three were highly dissatisfied with his performance last year. The remaining 11 voters were more mixed in their appraisals, though none of them said they regretted their vote.
The most common objectives the voters wanted Trump to pursue were immigration reform and a sharper focus on domestic issues – healthcare reform, cutting fraud in public programs and lowering the national debt – over foreign policy.
Fourteen said they were disappointed by the president’s recent rhetoric about annexing foreign countries and his tendency to inflame divisions through social media posts.
“I would like him to really focus way more on America,” said Robert Billups, 34, an unemployed accountant in Washington state.
Billups voted for Trump hoping for cheaper healthcare and more transparent government spending. Although he sees little improvement on those fronts, Billups maintains Trump was still “probably the best option” in the 2024 election.
Asked for comment, White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement: “The Trump administration remains laser-focused on continuing to cool inflation, accelerate economic growth, secure our border, and mass deport criminal illegal aliens.”
Trump’s tariffs, disdain for U.S. judges and officials with whom he disagrees, and recent “saber-rattling” about taking over Greenland and other countries – earned the president a “failing grade” from Steve Egan, 65, a promotional product distributor in Tampa.
Egan said his main hope for 2026 was that Trump would “stay in his lane” and not trigger a constitutional crisis.
“When Trump’s out of office, I’m sorry, I can’t vote Democratic generally, but if there’s a Democrat that talks more sense than Trump’s doing, then I’ll probably vote for him,” said Egan.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
The voters’ top ask for this year was a clearer pathway to legal status for law-abiding immigrants who are already contributing to the U.S. economy. Trump backed some such measures in his first term, but has not done so since retaking office.
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Last spring, 14 of the voters told Reuters they wanted Trump to ease legalization for deserving foreigners. In January, eight of the voters said immigration reform should be a second-year priority.
Juan Rivera, a 26-year-old content creator near San Diego who has some relatives seeking legal residency in the U.S. and others who work for Border Patrol, said he was “a little disappointed” that Trump had not pursued it.
Rivera, who does Latino outreach for California’s Republican Party, said prioritizing immigration reform would help the party in November’s midterm elections.
“Latino voters, Asian-American voters who voted for the president, they voted because they wanted to see immigration reform,” Rivera said. “I don’t think all Republicans realize that the president would not have won if it wasn’t for those voters.”
Across the country, Pennsylvania state corrections worker and former National Guardsman Brandon Neumeister, 36, also wants the president to focus on immigration reform this year.
“If they’ve been here, they’ve been productive, they’ve stayed out of trouble, I feel like those are the type of people we would want,” Neumeister said.
Rather than deporting immigrants “after they’ve been a fixture in communities for decades,” he added, the administration should create “a more streamlined method for them to attain citizenship.”
Like Rivera and Neumeister, Lesa Sandberg of St. George, Utah, said she approved of Trump’s efforts to secure the U.S. border but would “love to see the same emphasis on making it legal to be here as there is on getting rid of the criminals.”
Of roughly 60,000 people currently detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as of late January, about 44% had no pending criminal charge or prior conviction, according to agency statistics.
‘JUST CHILL’
As with most of the voters, Sandberg hoped Trump would continue his signature economic policies this year.
Sandberg, 58, who runs an accounting business, rents properties and works for a Republican political action committee, said last year’s deregulatory moves and tax cuts left her “satisfied” and “hopeful.” She said her grocery and gas bills had fallen, although the U.S. Consumer Price Index in January showed food prices were up while gas prices were down across the country.
But Sandberg is unsure how Trump plans to pay for hiking the military budget by two thirds over what Congress approved, and wants to know where the savings went after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) slashed the federal workforce.
Trump’s top priority in 2026 should be “to balance a freaking budget and stop the progression of the debt,” Sandberg said.
Terry Alberta, 65, a pilot in Michigan, agreed that while “in my world, the economy is doing great,” he hoped Trump would do more this year to curb government waste.
“I had high hopes with DOGE and all that, and I thought we were really gonna get a handle on it, but you’re just taking a big wad of cash from one group and giving it to another group,” said Alberta. “I don’t see the deficit actually going down.”
Alberta also vented frustration with Trump’s penchant for lashing out at critics. “Stop making the people that disagree with you get all lathered up. Just chill,” he said.
In Georgia, David Ferguson, 54, a mechanical engineer and account manager for an industrial supply company, said Trump should keep trying to shift manufacturing back to the U.S. through tariffs and other tactics.
Ferguson agreed with Alberta that Trump had “a certain arrogance that sometimes comes across as a little too much,” but, he said, it “works for what he needs to do.”
Reporting by Julia Harte; Additional reporting by Ted Hesson; Editing by Paul Thomasch and Claudia Parsons
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