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作者：帕特里克·斯维特克
更新于2026年5月16日 美国东部时间上午10:14
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唐纳德·特朗普总统的政治报复行动将于本周六在路易斯安那州迎来关键考验，他正试图在卡西迪2026年3月10日在美国国会大厦。
卡西迪在第二次弹劾案中投票判定他有罪的五年后击败共和党联邦参议员比尔·卡西迪。
特朗普支持众议员朱莉娅·莱特洛对抗卡西迪，不过第二位挑战者——路易斯安那州州务卿约翰·弗莱明——开展了一场激烈的竞选，并让局势很可能变成没有任何候选人获得多数选票，这将触发6月27日的决选。
这对特朗普能否成功推翻背叛他的共和党同僚而言是至关重要的时刻。路易斯安那州的这场选举距特朗普希望在初选中击败肯塔基州众议员托马斯·马西的三天前举行，后者的竞选吸引了更多关注。
击败一名参议员将是特朗普的一项新成就。尽管他在参议院的一些党内批评者选择不寻求连任以避免直面他的怒火，但他从未支持过针对共和党参议员的初选挑战者并最终赢得那场初选。而且共和党参议员输掉连任提名的情况非常罕见——上一次发生还是在2017年，时任阿拉巴马州任命参议员的路德·斯特兰奇在初选决选中落败。
特朗普在一场旨在号召选民周六为莱特洛投票的社交媒体帖子中重申了对她的支持，称她是“一位永远不会让你失望的赢家”。
他在这篇长篇帖子中写道，卡西迪“是一个不忠的灾难。他整个参议院竞选活动从头到尾都在‘炒作特朗普’。”
卡西迪是国会中为数不多在参议院弹劾审判中投票判定特朗普有罪的共和党人之一，该审判源于他在2021年1月6日袭击美国国会大厦事件中所扮演的角色。他所代表的是一个坚定的红色州，2024年该州以22个百分点的优势支持特朗普。
最近，作为医生的卡西迪在担任参议院卫生、教育、劳工和养老金委员会主席期间与特朗普产生了矛盾。虽然卡西迪投票确认了特朗普提名的卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，但他在政府“让美国再次健康”议程的其他部分与本届政府存在分歧。
上个月，特朗普不得不撤回他提名的卫生部长人选凯西·米恩斯后，总统将责任归咎于卡西迪。
在竞选活动中，卡西迪试图将这场竞选描述为关乎“当下与未来”，并吹嘘尽管在弹劾投票中存在分歧，但他与特朗普仍保持着良好的工作关系。
“我不是说总统喜欢我——不——但即便彼此不喜欢，只要有共同目标，你就可以与他人合作，”卡西迪周五在CNN的《情况室》节目中表示，“我的目标是让我的国家和我的州——以及所有生活在这里的人——变得更好。”
卡西迪在初选中长期拥有巨大的资金优势，他利用这一优势几乎只针对莱特洛展开攻击，称这场竞选是她输不起的。他将攻击重点放在她的高等教育背景以及过去推动多元化、公平性和包容性举措的经历上，而这些举措如今在共和党内部已声名狼藉。
然而在初选的最后几天，他的两位挑战者之间展开了互撕。
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弗莱明是一位曾在国会任职、涉足路易斯安那州政坛数十年的前议员，他试图将自己塑造为比莱特洛更忠于特朗普的人，尤其是在特朗普第一任期内曾在白宫工作之后。
莱特洛的竞选团队将弗莱明贴上“永不支持特朗普者”的标签，并与一个外部团体一起，针对他在担任州务卿之前曾担任说客的一系列其他问题展开攻击。
按照惯例，卡西迪获得了参议院共和党领袖的背书，但全国共和党其他势力都对这场初选保持距离。不仅特朗普支持莱特洛，该州的共和党州长杰夫·兰德里也同样支持她。
此次选举是在新的且不同寻常的情况下举行的。兰德里最近推迟了众议院初选——但保留了原定于周六举行的参议院初选——以回应最高法院关于选区重划的裁决。此次选举也是首次采用新的封闭初选制度，无党派选民——卡西迪的关键票仓——如果想要参与共和党初选，必须填写额外的文书材料。
卡西迪的竞选经理凯蒂·拉金周五发表声明，暗示兰德里幕后操纵了一项“对选民来说故意设置困难的程序”，称“州长关闭了初选，并不断干预这场选举以支持朱莉娅·莱特洛。”
兰德里的办公室没有回应置评请求，但在周五福克斯商业频道的采访中，他预测莱特洛将在初选中排名第一，并对卡西迪和弗莱明进行了抨击。
“有两个男人在对待她的方式上一点都不像南方人，”兰德里说道。
虽然特朗普的政治资本将在周六见分晓，但这场初选也是对卫生部长肯尼迪盟友的一次考验。一个与肯尼迪的议程相关的团体MAHA PAC已斥资六位数反对卡西迪并支持莱特洛，尽管其他超级政治行动委员会在这场初选中的花费要高得多。
Trump’s drive for political revenge faces a key test in Saturday’s Louisiana Senate primary
May 16, 2026, 8:00 AM ET / CNN
By Patrick Svitek
Updated May 16, 2026, 10:14 AM ET
Sen. Bill Cassidy at the US Capitol on March 10.
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President Donald Trump’s drive for political revenge faces a key test Saturday in Louisiana, where he is looking to defeat Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy five years after Cassidy voted to convict him in his second impeachment.
Trump has backed Rep. Julia Letlow against Cassidy, though a second challenger — Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming — has run a spirited race and made it likely that no candidate receives a majority of the vote, which would trigger a June 27 runoff.
It is a crucial time for Trump’s ability to show he can unseat fellow Republicans who cross him. The Louisiana election comes three days before Trump hopes to beat Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in his primary, a race that has drawn more attention.
Unseating a senator would be a new feat for Trump. While some of his intraparty detractors in the Senate have chosen not to seek reelection rather than face his wrath, he has never backed a primary challenger to a GOP senator who lost that primary. And it is rare for a Republican senator to lose renomination — the last time it happened was in 2017, when an appointed senator, Luther Strange of Alabama, was defeated in a primary runoff.
Trump reiterated his endorsement of Letlow in a social media post aimed at turning out voters for her Saturday, saying she is “a winner who will NEVER let you down.”
He wrote in the lengthy post that Cassidy, “is a disloyal disaster. His entire past campaign for the Senate was about ‘TRUMP.’”
Cassidy is one of the few Republicans left in Congress who voted to convict Trump during a Senate impeachment trial over his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. He represents a solidly red state that backed Trump by 22 percentage points in 2024.
More recently,Cassidy – a physician – has had tension with Trump as chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. While Cassidy voted to confirm Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he has split with the administration on other parts of its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
Last month, after Trump had to pull his nominee for surgeon general, Casey Means, the president blamed Cassidy.
On the campaign trail, Cassidy has sought to portray the race as about “the present and the future” and has boasted about having a good working relationship with Trump despite the impeachment vote.
“I’m not claiming the president loves me — no — but you can work with people even if you don’t love each other if you’ve got a common goal,” Cassidy said Friday on CNN’s “Situation Room.” “And my goal is to make my country and my state — and everybody who lives here — better off.”
Cassidy has long had a large financial advantage in the primary and used it to almost exclusively attack Letlow, saying the race is hers to lose. He has focused on her background in higher education and past efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that are now toxic in the GOP.
Yet in the final days of the primary, his two challengers have been battling one another.
Rep. Julia Letlow greets supporters at a campaign stop in Hammond, Louisiana, on May 6.
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Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming greets supporters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on May 12.
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Fleming, a former congressman who has been involved in Louisiana politics for decades, has sought to portray himself as more aligned with Trump than Letlow, especially after working in the White House during Trump’s first term.
Letlow’s campaign has labeled Fleming a “Never Trumper” and, along with an outside group, targeted him on a range of other issues, including his work as a lobbyist before he became state treasurer.
Cassidy has been endorsed by Senate GOP leaders, as is custom for incumbents, though national Republicans have otherwise kept their distance from the primary. Not only is Trump backing Letlow, but so is the state’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry.
The election is occurring under new and unusual circumstances. Landry recently postponed House primaries – but kept the Senate primary scheduled for Saturday – in response to a Supreme Court ruling on redistricting. The election also is the first under a new closed primary system where unaffiliated voters – a key bloc for Cassidy – have to fill out extra paperwork if they want to participate in the GOP primary.
Cassidy’s campaign manager, Katie Larkin, issued a statement Friday suggesting Landry was behind an “intentionally difficult process” for voters, saying, “The Governor closed the primary and continuously meddled in this election to support Julia Letlow.”
Landry’s office did not respond to a request for comment, but in a Fox Business interview Friday, he predicted Letlow would finish first in the primary and took a shot at Cassidy and Fleming.
“She’s had two men that have just not been very southerly about the way they’ve treated her,” Landry said.
While Trump’s political capital is on the line Saturday, the primary is also a test for allies of Kennedy, the health secretary. A group associated with Kennedy’s agenda, MAHA PAC, has spent six figures opposing Cassidy and supporting Letlow, though other super PACs have spent much more in the primary.
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