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这位共和党人对特朗普“就事论事”，旨在拿下蓝营众议院席位；称选民将“选择常识而非社会主义”
作者：保罗·施泰因豪泽 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年4月15日 美国东部时间早上5:00
新泽西州共和党人乔·哈撒韦在周四的国会特别选举中，指责民主党对手阿纳利亚·梅希亚宣扬“极左翼意识形态”。
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新泽西州伦道夫市——在新泽西州北部一个倾向民主党的选区争取 vacant 美国众议院席位时，共和党人乔·哈撒韦毫不避讳地指出他与总统唐纳德·特朗普的分歧，同时指责民主党对手过于激进。
“在这场竞选里，我会就事论事，不会做任何人的橡皮图章，”哈撒韦在本周接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时被问及特朗普时说道。
哈撒韦将与民主党人阿纳利亚·梅希亚在周四新泽西州第11国会选区的特别选举中展开对决，梅希亚得到了进步派领军人物、佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯和邻近纽约州的众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科特兹的支持。获胜者将接替民主党众议员米基·谢里尔，后者在2025年11月赢得新泽西州州长选举后辞去了国会职务。
周四的特别选举之际，共和党正艰难维持着微弱的众议院多数席位，他们将非常渴望拿下谢里尔在2024年连任选举中以15个百分点优势获胜的郊区选区，该选区在去年的州长选举中也以大致相同的优势支持民主党。但作为执政党，共和党面临着艰难的政治环境和传统的选举逆风，因此对于一位共和党候选人来说，这是一项艰巨的任务。
【福克斯新闻独家报道】：众议院共和党人在纳税日之前瞄准数十名“脆弱”民主党议员
民主党新泽西州州长候选人米基·谢里尔在2025年11月4日周二新泽西州东布伦瑞克的选举夜活动上。（迈克尔·纳格尔/彭博社）
但哈撒韦信心十足地表示：“我认为我们将组建一个广泛的联盟，在这场竞选中选择常识而非社会主义。”
梅希亚是一名进步派组织者，曾在2020年桑德斯的总统竞选活动中担任全国政治主任。她在2月的民主党初选中爆冷获胜，在11名候选人的角逐中以微弱优势击败了更温和的对手、前众议员汤姆·马林诺夫斯基。尽管梅希亚是民主党左翼阵营的明确选择，但其余候选人似乎瓜分了温和派和中间派左翼的选票。
她的胜利是左翼对建制派的又一次打击，此前民主社会主义者、纽约市市长佐赫兰·曼达尼在2025年6月的民主党初选中获胜，震惊全美。
【众议院议长约翰逊获得增援，共和党艰难维持微弱多数席位】
哈撒韦曾担任伦道夫镇镇长，现任市议员，他在共和党国会提名竞选中无人挑战。他强调，选民的选择是“在一位务实独立、在新泽西州地方层面办成了事、熟悉各项议题的常识型领导人，与一位纯粹宣扬意识形态、极左翼意识形态、得到‘国会激进派小组’支持的意识形态者之间”。
梅希亚最近与马林诺夫斯基一同出席了市政厅会议，上周六还与谢里尔一同在竞选活动中露面，旨在团结该选区登记选民占优势的民主党人。
阿纳利亚·梅希亚在特别选举中获得民主党提名，角逐新当选州长米基·谢里尔空出的众议院席位。（希瑟·哈利法/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
哈撒韦声称，梅希亚现在正“在部分言论中试图掩盖这一点，因为她清楚这些政策完全脱离实际，但这骗不了选民，当然也骗不了我们”。
犹太选民是该选区选民的关键群体，哈撒韦在特别选举的唯一一场辩论中称梅希亚反犹，并指出她曾称以色列在加沙实施种族灭绝。
“她将10月7日哈马斯的袭击归咎于以色列，”哈撒韦说，“我认为该选区的犹太民众，无论共和党还是民主党，都非常害怕这种言论。”
哈撒韦表示：“我已经与更多犹太社区成员交谈过，他们告诉我，他们这辈子从未投过共和党，但这次会把票投给我。这表明犹太社区对这场竞选的重视程度，以及他们与梅希亚……及其纲领并不一致。”
【进步派再次击败民主党温和派，桑德斯-奥卡西奥-科特兹盟友接近进入国会】
梅希亚承诺“保护犹太选民的权利”，并表示她对以色列在加沙行动的批评不应与反犹主义混为一谈。
在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中，梅希亚说：“乔·哈撒韦无法区分对一个政府或政府官员的批评与偏执，这既令人不安又令人作呕，两者程度相当。”
梅希亚上周在社交媒体上写道，在得到自由派亲以色列政治团体J Street PAC的背书后，她“深感荣幸”。但她接受该背书引发了左翼的反对，北新泽西州民主社会主义者组织称她的举动是“变节”。
哈撒韦旨在争取独立选民和民主党人，他指出了自己与特朗普的共识和分歧——2024年总统选举中特朗普在该选区落后8个百分点。
共和党国会候选人乔·哈撒韦2026年4月13日在新泽西州伦道夫的伦道夫 diner 与选民交流。（保罗·施泰因豪泽/福克斯新闻）
“我永远会首先为这个选区做正确的事。我已经明确表态：如果总统采取有利于选区的举措，比如提高州和地方税扣除上限，让民众口袋里的钱回到口袋里，尤其是新泽西州，这里的生活成本太高了。如果我们采取诸如加强边境安全、减少芬太尼死亡人数这类举措，就像我们社区看到的那样，这些都是好事，我支持这些政策，”哈撒韦说。
“但另一方面，如果总统采取不符合我们选区最佳利益的举措，我的职责就是提出反对，而这正是我一直在做的，”他强调道。
哈撒韦指出了特朗普去年终止哈德逊河下连接新泽西州和纽约州的新火车隧道项目“Gateway计划”数十亿美元联邦资金的举措，以及总统计划削减位于新泽西州的一个陆军基地约1000个工作岗位和近10亿美元资金。
“在这场竞选里，我会就事论事，不会做任何人的橡皮图章，”哈撒韦说。
【共和党获胜但民主党也宣称在特朗普票仓的投票箱热潮中取得胜利】
哈撒韦表示，他对独立选民和民主党人的信息是：“即使你以前从未投过共和党，你也有机会尝试一位共和党人接下来的六个月。把我送到华盛顿，让我证明我会说到做到，这就是我们组建联盟赢得胜利的方式。”
他还称赞道：“我认为我们掌握了正确的策略，正确的两党联盟，将在4月16日的选举中团结起来赢得胜利。”
2026年4月13日，新泽西州伦道夫市新泽西州第11选区国会选举的共和党候选人乔·哈撒韦和民主党候选人阿纳利亚·梅希亚的竞选标语牌。（保罗·施泰因豪泽/福克斯新闻）
但费尔利·迪金森大学政治学教授兼民调专家丹·卡西诺称，哈撒韦争取跨党派民主党人的希望“是白日做梦”。
“整体而言，民主党人似乎并不愿意与特朗普寻求共同点，”他预测特别选举中的大多数选民都会坚定支持本党，“目前民主党投票率极高，而共和党投票率低迷。”
卡西诺指出：“如今全国政治主导一切。我们常说所有政治都是地方政治。但不幸的是，如今所有政治都是全国性的。”
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与此同时，梅希亚将哈撒韦与特朗普和国会共和党人绑定在一起。
“‘让美国再次伟大’的共和党人通过极端政策推高了日常成本，而我的对手支持这些政策。医疗保健和关键项目被削减，只是为了给超级富豪提供减税优惠。我们承受不起国会再出现一位支持特朗普的议员，”她在社交媒体帖子中写道。
保罗·施泰因豪泽是驻扎在摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，全程报道全美竞选活动。
Republican seeks blue-state breakthrough, distances from Trump while taking aim at ‘socialist’
2026-04-15T05:00:46-04:00 / Fox News
Calling ‘balls and strikes’ on Trump, this Republican aims to flip a blue House seat; says voters will ‘choose common sense over socialism’
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News
Published April 15, 2026 5:00am EDT
Joe Hathaway, the Republican in Thursday’s special congressional election in New Jersey, charges that his Democratic rival Analilia Mejia is running on ‘far left-wing ideology.’
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RANDOLPH, N.J.— As he works to flip a vacant U.S. House seat in a blue-leaning district in northern New Jersey, Republican Joe Hathaway is not shy about pointing out where he disagrees with President Donald Trump, even as he charges that his Democratic rival is too far to the left.
“I’m going to call balls and strikes in this race. I’m not going to be a rubber stamp for anybody,” Hathaway said in a Fox News Digital interview this week, when asked about Trump.
Hathaway is facing off against Democrat Analilia Mejia, who is backed by progressive champions Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of neighboring New York, in Thursday’s special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. The winner will succeed Gov. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic representative who stepped down from Congress in November after winning New Jersey’s gubernatorial election.
Thursday’s special election comes as the GOP clings to a fragile House majority, and would relish the opportunity to flip a suburban district Sherrill won by 15 points in her 2024 re-election and carried by roughly the same margin in last year’s gubernatorial election. But facing a rough political climate and traditional political headwinds as the party in power, that’s a tough task for a candidate with an R by his name.
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Representative Mikie Sherrill, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for New Jersey, during an election night event in East Brunswick, New Jersey, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)
Regardless, a confident Hathaway said, “I think we are going to have a broad coalition come together to choose common sense over socialism in this race.”
Mejia, a progressive organizer who served as national political director on the 2020 Sanders presidential campaign, pulled off an upset in the February Democratic primary as she narrowly edged out more moderate rival former Rep. Tom Malinowski in a field of 11 candidates. While Mejia was the clear choice of the party’s left flank, the rest of the field appeared to divide the more moderate and center-left vote.
Her victory was another boost for the left against the establishment after democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sent shock waves across the nation with his Democratic primary victory in June 2025.
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Hathaway, a former Randolph Township mayor and current council member who was uncontested for the GOP congressional nomination, emphasized that the choice for voters is “between a common sense, practical independent leader who’s gotten things done at the local level in New Jersey and knows the issues, contrasted with someone who’s running on pure ideology, far left-wing ideology, Squad-backed ideology.”
Mejia recently appeared at a town hall with Malinowski and this past weekend teamed up with Sherrill on the campaign trail, as she aims to unite Democrats, who enjoy a sizable registration advantage in the district.
Analilia Mejia secured the Democratic Party nomination in a special election to find out who will take over newly-elected New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s vacant House seat.(Heather Khalifa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Hathaway claimed that Mejia is now trying “to hide from that a little bit in some of her rhetoric, because she knows that those policies are completely out of touch, but it’s not fooling voters. It’s certainly not fooling us.”
Jewish voters make up a key part of the district’s electorate, and Hathaway, in the only debate in the special election showdown, claimed Mejia was antisemitic, noting that she has said Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
“She blamed Israel for the attacks by Hamas on October 7,” Hathaway said. “I think Jewish individuals across this district, Republican or Democrat are very afraid of this kind of rhetoric.”
Hathaway said, “I’ve spoken to more members of the Jewish community who have told me they’ve never voted for a Republican in their life, who are going to vote for me in this race. I mean, that shows you where the Jewish community is on the importance of this race and how they are not aligned with Mejia… and her platform.”
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Mejia has pledged to “protect the rights of Jewish constituents,” and has said her criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza should not be conflated with antisemitism.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mejia said that “Joe Hathaway’s inability to distinguish between criticism of a government or government official and bigotry is troubling and disgusting in equal measure.”
Mejia last week wrote that she was “honored” after being endorsed by the liberal pro-Israel political group J Street PAC. But her acceptance of the endorsement triggered pushback on the left, with the North Jersey Democratic Socialists of America calling her move a “heel turn.”
Hathaway, as he aims to win over independents and Democrats, is pointing out where he agrees, and disagrees, with Trump, who lost the district by eight points in his 2024 presidential election victory.
Republican congressional candidate Joe Hathaway speaks with voters at the Randolph Diner, on April 13, 2026, in Randolph, New Jersey.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
“I’m always going to do what’s right for this district first. And I’ve been clear: If the president’s going to do things that are good for the district, increasing the SALT cap deduction, putting money back in people’s pockets, especially New Jersey, affordability is so tough here. If we’re doing things like border security, reducing fentanyl deaths like we’ve seen in our community. Those are good things. I support those policies,” Hathaway said.
“But on the other hand, if the president’s going to do things that aren’t in the best interest of our district, it’s my job to push back, and that’s exactly what I’ve done,” he spotlighted.
Hathaway pointed to Trump’s move last year to terminate billions of federal dollars for the Gateway Project, which is funding a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York, and the president’s plans to cut roughly 1,000 jobs and nearly $1 billion in funding for an Army base located in New Jersey.
“I’m going to call balls and strikes in this race. I’m not going to be a rubber stamp for anybody,” Hathaway said.
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Hathaway said his message to independents and Democrats is, “even if you’ve never voted for a Republican before, you got the chance to test drive one for the next six months. Send me to Washington. Let me prove to you I’m going to do what I say I’m going to do, and that’s how we’re going to build the coalition to win.”
And he touted, “I think we have the right math, the right bipartisan coalition to come together to win this thing on April 16.”
Campaign signs for Republican candidate Joe Hathaway and Democrat Analilia Mejia in New Jersey’s 11th District congressional election, in Randolph, New Jersey, on April 13, 2026.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
But Dan Cassino, a Fairleigh Dickinson University political science professor and pollster, calls Hathaway’s hopes of capturing crossover Democrats “a pipe dream.”
“Democrats as a whole do not seem interested in finding common ground with Trump,” he said as he predicted that most voters in the special election will be strong partisans. “Democratic turnout is through the roof and Republican turnout is depressed at this point.”
Cassino noted that “right now national politics drives everything. We say all politics is local. Today, unfortunately, all politics is national.”
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Mejia, meanwhile, has tied Hathaway to Trump and Republicans in Congress.
“MAGA Republicans are driving up everyday costs with extreme policies my opponent supports. Healthcare and critical programs are being gutted just to fund tax breaks for the ultra-rich. We can’t afford another vote for Trump in Congress,” she wrote in a social media post.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.