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总统唐纳德·特朗普周四南下佐治亚州，他将在这个关键的中期选举战场州停留，展示其政府为推动经济所做的努力。
白宫新闻秘书Karolina Leavitt在出行前夕表示，特朗普”将访问两家当地企业，并发表关于他为让工薪阶层生活负担得起所做努力的演讲”。
但特朗普此次前往佐治亚州罗马市的行程，正值该州14区（该选区因前议员Marjorie Taylor Greene辞职而空缺）的补选提前投票工作开始之际。这位曾是”让美国再次伟大”运动核心支持者的前议员，在今年年初辞职前与总统关系出现重大裂痕。
共有18名候选人竞争填补这一共和党稳固优势选区的席位。
佐治亚州第14选区的提前投票已开始，以填补前共和党众议员Marjorie Taylor Greene于1月初辞职后留下的众议院席位空缺。（Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images）
“我们有很多人想取代Marjorie ‘叛徒’ Greene的位置，候选人众多，我必须选出一位，”总统周一在空军一号上对记者说，他使用了对这位前议员的贬称。
“他们说无论我支持谁都会赢。但我们有很多优秀的候选人想取代她。”
总统本月早些时候确实对这场补选进行了背书，支持前地方检察官Clay Fuller。
由于候选人众多，3月10日的选举中可能没有候选人得票超过50%，这将迫使在4月7日举行决选。
特朗普在佐治亚州的停留预计将重点讨论通胀、能源成本和失业率问题，这是在他的政治团队核心成员与内阁成员及其高级助手举行闭门战略会议两天后进行的，会议讨论了如何最好地向今年中期选举中的选民推销总统的施政纲领。
总统唐纳德·特朗普于1月27日在爱荷华州克莱夫的Horizon Events Center集会上发表演讲（Win McNamee/Getty Images）
知情人士向福克斯新闻证实，此次会议由白宫办公厅主任Susie Wiles和副主任James Blair主持，后者负责制定特朗普的政治策略。
特朗普为稳定通胀数据欢呼，可负担性之争塑造2026年中期选举战役
据消息人士透露，首席民调专家兼战略家Tony Fabrizio在幻灯片演示中强调，经济将是选民最关心的问题，白宫需要突出其在缓解生活成本压力方面的努力。
“特朗普团队将调动一切必要资源赢得中期选举，保护我们的多数席位，并确保特朗普总统继续为美国工薪家庭带来成果，”总统政治圈的一位消息人士告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
此次会议召开之际，共和党正努力捍卫其在11月中期选举中对参议院的控制权和众议院的微弱多数优势。共和党在中期选举中通常面临传统政治逆风，即执政党通常会失去众议院和参议院席位。
共和党还面临总统持续低迷的支持率，以及包括最新福克斯新闻民调在内的一系列调查显示，美国人对经济持悲观态度，认为自特朗普重返白宫以来经济状况并未改善。
与此同时，在特朗普第二任期内，民主党在中期选举和补选中取得了一系列投票箱胜利和超预期表现，这得益于他们在持续通胀背景下对生活成本问题的高度关注。
共和党将总统视为激励低投票率的”让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）选民的最佳工具，这些选民在没有特朗普参选时往往不会投票，共和党希望激励他们在中期选举中前往投票站。
共和党全国委员会主席Joe Gruters上月告诉福克斯新闻数字版，特朗普是共和党的”秘密武器”，将帮助共和党”打破历史常规”赢得中期选举。
视频“我们必须确保我们的选民投票，确保人们充满活力。没有人比特朗普总统更能激发我们的基础选民，”Gruters说。
特朗普在12月和上月前往关键战场州宾夕法尼亚州、北卡罗来纳州和密歇根州，强调其经济成就。
在Wiles表示特朗普将开始每周行程后，他于上月末在爱荷华州举行集会，这个曾经的中西部战场州在2024年被总统以两位数优势拿下，如今共和党需要在那里进行防御，以捍卫空出的参议院和州长席位以及三个竞争激烈的共和党控制的众议院选区。
但特朗普周四在佐治亚州的停留是他自三周前爱荷华州之行以来的首次竞选风格活动。
在特朗普访问前夕，民主党全国委员会在一份声明中表示：”由于唐纳德·特朗普，数万佐治亚州人失去了工作，勤劳的家庭每年在基本生活开支上多支付1000多美元，数千名GA-14居民面临医疗费用飙升的问题。尽管特朗普试图歪曲他的记录并谎称经济状况良好，但民主党不会停止为降低佐治亚州家庭成本和保护他们的医疗保障而奋斗。”
Paul Steinhauser是一名驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，报道从东到西的竞选活动。
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President Donald Trump heads south to Georgia on Thursday, as he stops in a crucial midterm battleground state to showcase his administration’s efforts to boost the economy.
White House Press Secretary Karolina Leavitt said on the eve of the trip that Trump “will visit two local businesses and give a speech on his efforts to make life affordable for working people.”
But Trump’s visit to Rome, Georgia, in the northwest part of the state, comes with early voting underway in the special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Once a MAGA firebrand, she had a major falling out with the president before stepping down from Congress at the beginning of the year.
A jam-packed field of 18 candidates are vying to succeed Taylor Greene in Georgia’s solidly red 14th Congressional District.
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Early voting is under way in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, in the race to fill the House seat left vacant when then-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican, resigned from Congress in early January.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“We have a lot of people that want to take Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene’s place, and many, many candidates, and I have to choose one,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One Monday, as he used a derogatory nickname for the former lawmaker.
“They say whoever I endorse is going to win. But we have a lot of good candidates that want to take her place.”
The president earlier this month did make an endorsement in the race, backing Clay Fuller, who is a former local district attorney.
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With so many candidates in the race, it’s likely no candidate tops 50% in the March 10 election, which would then force an April 7 runoff.
Trump’s stop in Georgia, where he’s expected to spotlight inflation, energy costs, and unemployment, comes two days after top members of the president’s political team huddled in a closed-door strategy session with Trump administration Cabinet members and their top aides on how best to sell the president’s agenda to voters in this year’s midterm elections.
President Donald Trump takes the stage to speak during a rally at the Horizon Events Center in Clive, Iowa, on Jan. 27.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The meeting, which sources familiar confirmed to Fox News, was hosted by White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief of staff James Blair, who is steering Trump’s political strategy.
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According to sources, the message during a slide presentation by chief pollster and strategist Tony Fabrizio was that the economy will be the top issue on the minds of voters, and that the White House needs to spotlight its efforts on easing affordability.
“Team Trump will deploy every resource necessary to win the midterms, protect our majorities, and ensure President Trump keeps delivering results for America’s working families,” a source in the president’s political orbit told Fox News Digital.
The meeting was held as the GOP works to defend their control of the Senate and their razor-thin House majority in November’s midterms. Republicans are facing traditional political headwinds in the midterms, when the party in power usually loses House and Senate seats.
Republicans are also dealing with the president’s continued underwater approval ratings, and a slew of surveys, including the latest Fox News polling, that indicates Americans are pessimistic about the economy and say things have not improved in the year since Trump returned to the White House.
Meanwhile, Democrats have scored a series of ballot box victories and overperformances in off-year elections and special elections during Trump’s second administration, thanks to their laser focus on affordability amid persistent inflation.
Republicans see the president as their best tool to motivate low-propensity MAGA voters, who don’t always vote when Trump’s not on the ballot, to motivated them to show up at the polls during the midterms.
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Republican National Committee chair Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital last month that Trump was the GOP’s “secret weapon” that will help Republicans “defy history” in the midterms.
“We got to make sure we turn our voters out, and we got to make sure that we have people energized. And there’s nobody that can energize our base more than President Trump,” Gruters said.
Trump made stops in December and last month in the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Michigan to highlight his accomplishments on the economy.
And after Wiles said that Trump would start making weekly stops, he rallied supporters late last month in Iowa, a one-time Midwestern battleground turned red-leaning state the president carried by double digits in 2024 where Republicans are now playing defense as they defend open Senate and gubernatorial seats and three competitive GOP-controlled House districts.
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But Trump’s stop in Georgia on Thursday is his first campaign-style event since the Iowa trip three weeks ago.
The Democratic National Committee, in a statement ahead of Trump’s visit, argued, “Because of Donald Trump, tens of thousands of Georgians have lost their jobs, hardworking families are paying over $1,000 more per year for the basics, and thousands of GA-14 residents are facing skyrocketing health care premiums. While Trump tries to spin his record and lie about the state of his economy, Democrats won’t stop fighting to lower costs for Georgia families and protect their healthcare.”
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.”
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