2026年4月14日 美国东部时间上午7:00 / 美国有线电视新闻网
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前副总统迈克·彭斯的顾问奥利维亚·特罗伊于周二宣布，她将以民主党身份参选弗吉尼亚州拟议的新第七国会选区，前提是本月的大规模重划选区公投获得通过。
特罗伊曾在共和党担任政治与国家安全职务，2020年公开与共和党决裂，与130多名共和党同僚联名背书乔·拜登的竞选活动，并宣称“唐纳德·特朗普让我们的国家失败了”。
在此后的几年里，特罗伊成为特朗普领导下的共和党直言不讳的批评者。她曾在2024年民主党全国代表大会上发表主旨演讲。
“我在那座白宫里目睹的邪恶令人震惊。2020年，我终于说了‘够了’，”特罗伊在宣布参选国会的视频中说道。“特朗普吓不倒我。我曾在最关键的时刻与他交锋，现在我准备再次这么做。”
随着周二的宣布，现已正式加入民主党的特罗伊成为首个宣布角逐拟议新第七国会选区席位的候选人。目前该选区已有众多潜在参选者，包括前弗吉尼亚州第一夫人多萝西·麦考利夫以及数位州议员。
不过民主党首先必须在4月21日的高风险重划选区公投中获胜，该公投将决定新第七国会选区是否能够正式设立。这是全国范围内关于选区划分不公斗争的最新战场，如果公投通过，民主党有望额外拿下四个国会席位，在该州国会代表团中取得10比1的优势。
共和党人轻蔑地将新第七选区称为“龙虾爪选区”，指代该选区为最大化民主党得票率而设置的扭曲边界。
Olivia Troye, former Pence adviser turned Trump critic, launches Democratic bid for US House from Virginia
2026-04-14 07:00 AM ET / CNN
By David Wright
Olivia Troye speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 21, 2024.
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images/File
Olivia Troye, a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, announced Tuesday that she would run for Congress as a Democrat in Virginia’s proposed new 7th District, pending passage of a sweeping redistricting referendum this month.
Troye publicly broke with the Republican Party in 2020 after serving in political and national security roles, signing onto a letter with more than 130 fellow GOP officials endorsing Joe Biden’s campaign and arguing that “Donald Trump has failed our country.”
In the years since, Troye has emerged as an outspoken critic of the Republican Party under Trump. She was a featured speaker at the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
“The evil I saw in that White House was staggering. In 2020, I finally said ‘enough,’” Troye said in a video announcing her congressional bid. “Trump doesn’t scare me. I took him on when it mattered the most, and I’m ready to do it again.”
With the announcement Tuesday, Troye – now officially a Democrat – became the first candidate to declare for the race in the proposed new 7th District. A crowded field of potential contenders is taking shape, including former Virginia first lady Dorothy McAuliffe and several state lawmakers.
First, however, Democrats must prevail in the high-stakes redistricting referendum on April 21 that will determine whether the new 7th District exists at all. It’s the latest front in a nationwide fight over gerrymandering which, if passed, could enable Democrats to gain four seats and take a 10-1 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation.
Republicans have disparagingly branded the new 7th as the “lobster claw district,” a reference to its contortions aimed at maximizing Democratic vote share.
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