2026-03-24T05:00:00.000Z / CNN
作者：莫莉·英格兰、兰迪·凯
更新于 2026 年 3 月 24 日，美国东部时间上午 7:31
佛罗里达州棕榈滩的唐纳德·特朗普总统海湖庄园照片，摄于 2026 年 2 月 22 日。
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佛罗里达州民主党人希望利用该党近期在补选中表现超预期的势头，在周二的州众议院特别选举中胜出，该选区位于棕榈滩，包含总统唐纳德·特朗普的海湖庄园。
这是佛罗里达州（这个通常共和党占优的“红宝石州”）民主党人难得的胜选机会。若他们在周二晚获胜，海湖庄园所在的佛罗里达州众议院、参议院和美国众议院三个席位将由民主党人代表。
首次参选的民主党候选人艾米丽·格雷戈里是一名企业主兼军人配偶，她将对阵共和党候选人乔恩·马普尔斯。马普尔斯是邻近湖岸市的前议员，今年 1 月首次获得特朗普的“完全且全面支持”。
“乔恩是一位非常成功的商人兼市民领袖，深受大家喜爱与认可，”特朗普周一在另一篇推文中重申对马普尔斯的支持，“乔恩将成为一名出色的立法者！”
尽管特朗普一直谴责邮寄投票并试图通过共和党支持的《SAVE 美国法案》大幅限制邮寄投票（该法案将终止无理由邮寄投票的普遍做法），但他本人却在周二的补选中通过邮寄投票。
白宫发言人奥利维亚·威尔士在声明中表示：“众所周知，总统是棕榈滩居民，参与佛罗里达州选举，但他显然主要居住在华盛顿特区的白宫。这是个无足轻重的话题。”
该州众议院第 87 选区自去年 8 月起一直空缺。当时，前共和党州议员迈克·卡鲁索以 19 个百分点的优势在 2024 年连任后，离职担任棕榈滩县书记员。2024 年总统选举中，特朗普在该选区以 11 个百分点的优势胜出。
尽管总统的影响力在其家乡选区占据主导，但格雷戈里和马普尔斯均主要聚焦于“可负担性”问题——这一议题在 2025 年选举中对民主党极为有利，也是共和党在特朗普第二任期内难以主导的领域。
格雷戈里周一接受 CNN 采访时表示，她“善于屏蔽竞选活动中关于特朗普的噪音”，专注于该选区超过 18 万居民的需求。
CNN 也联系马普尔斯的竞选团队寻求采访，但尚未收到回复。
民主党在补选中的一系列胜利
补选通常投票率较低，因此选民热情对结果的影响尤为关键，甚至超过大型选举。
但如果格雷戈里获胜，这将是民主党继去年在特别选举或定期选举中翻转超过 20 个州立法席位后的又一成就。
今年以来，民主党已在阿肯色州、新罕布什尔州和德克萨斯州成功翻转多个席位，其中包括在德克萨斯州参议院选区以 17 个百分点的优势击败特朗普 2024 年胜选的选区。
CNN 的梅里迪斯·爱德华兹和伊桑·科恩对本报道亦有贡献。
本文已更新补充额外信息。
Florida Democrats hope in special election to flip a state legislative district that includes Mar-a-Lago
2026-03-24T05:00:00.000Z / CNN
By Molly English, Randi Kaye
Updated Mar 24, 2026, 7:31 AM ET
President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort seen in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 22.
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Democrats in Florida are hoping to capitalize on the party’s recent special election overperformances and come out on top Tuesday in a special state House election for a Palm Beach district that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
It’s an opportunity for Democrats in the ruby-red Sunshine State to notch a win in a state where the party is often short of them. If they win Tuesday night, Mar-a-Lago would be represented by a trio of Democrats across the Florida state House, Senate and US House.
Democrat Emily Gregory, a business owner and military spouse running for office for the first time, will face off against Republican Jon Maples, a former council-member of nearby Lake Shores who first received Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement” in January.
“Jon is a very successful Businessman and Civic Leader, who is known and loved,” Trump said in another post on Monday reiterating his endorsement of Maples. “Jon will be a terrific Legislator!”
Trump voted by mail in Tuesday’s special election even as he has decried mail-in voting and sought to sharply limit it with the Republican-backed SAVE America Act, which would end the widespread practice of no-excuse mail-in voting.
“As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington, DC,” said Olivia Wales, a spokesperson for the White House, in a statement. “This is a non-story.”
State House District 87 has been vacant since August of last year, when former Republican state Rep. Mike Caruso, who won reelection in 2024 by 19 percentage points, left the seat to become the Palm Beach County clerk and comptroller. Trump won the district by 11 points during the 2024 presidential election.
Although the shadow of the president looms large in his home district, both Gregory and Maples have largely focused on the issue of affordability, a subject that proved to be successful for Democrats in 2025 elections and one that Republicans have struggled to own during Trump’s second term.
Gregory, in an interview with CNN on Monday, said she was “good about blocking out the noise” about Trump during the campaign, saying she was staying focused on the more than 180,000 residents in her district.
CNN also reached out to Maples’ campaign for an interview but has not heard back.
A string of Democratic wins in special elections
Special elections often feature low turnout, placing an especially high emphasis on voter enthusiasm that can swing results more effectively than in larger elections.
But a win by Gregory would be just one more feather in Democrats’ caps after last year, when they flipped more than 20 state legislative seats in special or regularly scheduled elections.
Since the start of this year, Democrats have flipped seats in Arkansas, New Hampshire and Texas, where they won a state Senate district that had voted for Trump by 17 points in 2024.
CNN’s Meridith Edwards and Ethan Cohen contributed to this report.
This story has been updated with additional information.
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