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作者：约瑟夫·阿克斯
2026年5月20日 美国东部时间下午1:04 更新于2小时前
[1/2]2024年1月26日，美国南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚市南卡罗来纳州民主党总统初选前，美国众议员吉姆·克莱伯恩（民主党-南卡罗来纳州）摆姿势拍照。路透社/香农·斯台普顿/档案照片
5月20日（路透社）——南卡罗来纳州由共和党控制的州众议院周三早些时候通过了一项新的国会选区地图，旨在于11月的中期选举中罢免任职多年的民主党联邦众议员吉姆·克莱伯恩。
该地图仍需获得州参议院的批准，目前共和党在州参议院拥有34票对12票的优势。该法案还将该州联邦众议院初选选举从6月9日推迟至8月18日，以便让候选人有时间重新登记参选，并在重新划分后的选区开展竞选活动。
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州议会正在召开由共和党州长亨利·麦克马斯特召集的特别会议，此前唐纳德·特朗普总统施压要求重新划分该州的选区地图。共和党目前已经掌控该州7个联邦众议院席位中的6个。
南卡罗来纳州是多个迅速利用美国最高法院4月一项裁决的南方州之一，该裁决大幅削弱了对以黑人选民或拉丁裔选民为主的联邦众议院选区的保护措施。这些选民通常支持民主党。
路易斯安那州、阿拉巴马州和田纳西州都已采取行动，拆除民主党掌控的席位，同时推迟联邦众议院初选以适应新的选区地图，在某些情况下还将数千张已通过邮寄方式退回的缺席选票作废。
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南卡罗来纳州的这项法案于周三凌晨12点39分以党派划线投票方式通过，此前进行了两场各持续超过10小时的马拉松式议会辩论。周一晚间，在民主党议员提出数百项修正案试图拖延议事进程后，共和党人实施了新规则，限制议员可提出的修正案数量。
民主党议员谴责该地图是剥夺黑人选民政治权力的企图。非裔民主党议员约翰·金在议会发言时表示，该法案向年轻的黑人选民传递了一个信息：“我们不希望你们的声音出现在我们的民主进程中。”
共和党人否认此次重划选区的行动带有种族动机。
“特朗普总统在南卡罗来纳州以压倒性优势获胜，不是一次，不是两次，而是三次，”该选区地图的主要提案人、共和党州众议员卢克·兰金说道。“选举我们的民众完全有理由期待，我们能派出一个全部7席都由共和党人组成的国会代表团前往华盛顿特区。”
现年85岁的克莱伯恩是一名非裔民主党人，也是民主党党内的实权人物，自1993年以来一直代表南卡罗来纳州第六国会选区。
共和党人正寻求在11月的选举中保住他们在联邦众议院的微弱多数席位，届时所有435个席位都将参与竞选。
该法院裁决为全国范围内的重划选区战争打开了新的战场。这场战争始于去年夏天，当时特朗普敦促得克萨斯州共和党人绘制新地图，瞄准5名民主党在任议员。
尽管共和党在重划选区方面占据了明显优势，但鉴于特朗普的支持率持续下滑以及不受欢迎的伊朗战争，民主党人仍有望赢得众议院多数席位。
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South Carolina lawmakers advance US House map targeting powerful Democrat Clyburn
2026-05-20T13:04:31.212Z / Reuters
By Joseph Ax
May 20, 2026 1:04 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
[1/2]U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn (D-SC) stands for a portrait before the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S., January 26, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
May 20 (Reuters) – South Carolina’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved a new congressional map early on Wednesday aimed at ousting longtime Democratic U.S. Representative Jim Clyburn in November’s midterm elections.
The map still needs approval from the state Senate, where Republicans hold a 34-12 advantage. The legislation would also postpone the state’s primary elections for the U.S. House of Representatives from June 9 to August 18 to allow time for candidates to file again and run campaigns in the redrawn districts.
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The state legislature is meeting in a special session called by Republican Governor Henry McMaster, following pressure from President Donald Trump to redraw the state’s map. Republicans already hold six of the state’s seven U.S. House seats.
South Carolina is among several Southern states that have rushed to take advantage of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in April that severely weakened protections for U.S. House of Representatives districts that are largely comprised of Black or Latino voters. Those voters typically support Democrats.
Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee have all moved to dismantle Democratic-held seats while postponing their U.S. House primary elections to accommodate the new maps, in some cases invalidating thousands of absentee ballots that had already been returned by mail.
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The South Carolina legislation passed largely along party lines at 12:39 a.m. on Wednesday, following two marathon days of floor debate that each lasted more than 10 hours. Late on Monday, Republicans imposed new rules limiting the number of amendments that lawmakers could introduce, after Democrats had offered hundreds in an effort to slow down the process.
Democratic lawmakers decried the map as an effort to deny political power for Black voters. John King, a Black Democratic legislator, said on the chamber floor that the bill delivered a message to young Black boys and girls: “We don’t want your voice in our democracy.”
Republicans denied that the redistricting effort was motivated by race.
“President Trump decisively won in South Carolina, not once, not twice, but three times,” said Republican state Representative Luke Rankin, the lead sponsor of the map. “It’s completely reasonable for the people that elected us here to expect that we send a full 7-0 Republican congressional delegation to Washington, D.C.”
Clyburn, 85, a Black Democrat and a party power broker, has represented South Carolina’s sixth congressional district since 1993.
Republicans are seeking to hold their slim majority in the U.S. House in November, when all 435 seats will be on the ballot.
The court decision opened a new front in a national redistricting war that began last summer, when Trump pushed Texas Republicans to draw a new map targeting five Democratic incumbents.
While Republicans have built a clear redistricting advantage, Democrats remain well positioned to win a House majority, given Trump’s sagging approval ratings and the unpopular Iran war.
Reporting by Joseph Ax, Editing by Nick Zieminski
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