2026-04-22T14:59:16.808Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：亚当·坎ryn（Adam Cancryn）
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发布于 美国东部时间2026年4月22日上午10:59
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫国宴厅举行的NCAA全国冠军日活动上发表讲话后离开时与他人握手，摄于周二。
唐纳德·特朗普的政治团队清楚，选民对当前现状并不满意。但他们打赌，可以说服选民：如果民主党在11月夺回执政权力，情况会变得更糟。
据四位参与内部规划的人士透露，特朗普的高级顾问们正在策划一场选举宣传活动，核心是将中期选举塑造成两党政策纲领之间的明确选择，而非直接对特朗普政府的执政成效进行全民公投。
这项策略的背后是内部民调数据：尽管美国人总体上对特朗普及其执政表现感到不满，但共和党在一些关键议题上仍领先民主党，更受选民信任。
白宫办公厅主任苏西·怀尔斯（Susie Wiles）以及即将离开白宫负责特朗普政治运作的詹姆斯·布莱尔（James Blair），是本周早些时候在华盛顿华尔道夫阿斯托利亚酒店与亲密盟友举行会议时，概述这一计划的部分人员。
“民主党想把选举变成一场‘你认为一切都完美吗？’的公投，”参会的一位人士在描述整体竞选信息时说道，“而我们的思路是，你是想继续前进，推进已取得成功的工作并完成未竟事业？还是倒退回创纪录的通胀和高犯罪率时代？”
尽管面临诸多不利因素——包括不得人心的中东战争、选民对生活成本的强烈不满，共和党仍在想方设法保住国会多数席位。
周二晚间，弗吉尼亚州选民通过了一项重新划分选区的公投，这可能让民主党在11月额外获得四个国会席位，共和党保住席位的努力似乎变得更加艰难。目前共和党在众议院拥有217个席位，民主党为213个，另有一名独立议员与共和党党团结盟。
特朗普团队的计划似乎默认，总统在过去一年中已失去大量选民支持，因此需要更多精力攻击民主党。参会人士表示，在华尔道夫酒店的会议上，并未就特朗普低迷的支持率展开广泛讨论。
相反，顾问们强调，需要更好地宣传共和党受欢迎的政策成就，同时将民主党描绘成没有自身明确议程的阻挠者。
“这一切都是着眼未来，实际上与白宫无关，”另一位参会人士说道。他们介绍，该策略的一个核心要点是警告选民，如果民主党赢得国会部分或全部控制权，“那意味着政治僵局，意味着什么都做不成。而我们认为这不是美国民众想要的。”
特朗普顾问们认为，民主党在多个领域尤其薄弱，包括他们全面反对共和党去年通过的“宏伟美好法案”中的税收政策，以及该党在边境安全和犯罪等问题上的记录。
不过，参会人士透露，顾问们也承认，当前仍面临一大挑战：将个别民主党人与民主党整体形象中最不受欢迎的部分绑定。而由于民主党高层缺乏一位能清晰代表其议程的明确领袖，这一任务变得更加复杂。
白宫未回应置评请求。据参会人士透露，由于特朗普的政治运作高度保密，周一会议的参会者被要求签署保密协议。
布莱尔证实了这一保密协议政策——该政策最早由《华盛顿邮报》报道，他告诉CNN，签署协议是因为“我们运营的是竞选团队，不是社交俱乐部”。
参会人员包括：帮助特朗普赢得2024年大选的顶级共和党幕僚克里斯·拉西维塔（Chris LaCivita）；特朗普长期政治顾问杰森·米勒（Jason Miller）；以及特朗普竞选团队民调专家托尼·法布里齐奥（Tony Fabrizio）。
这是布莱尔和怀尔斯近几个月来主持的一系列内部汇报会的最新一场，白宫正在为中期选举做准备，特朗普将此次选举视为其总统任期未来的关键。
特朗普和共和党盟友曾警告，如果共和党失去众议院的微弱多数席位，政府的施政议程将陷入停滞，还将面临一系列调查——可能包括新的弹劾尝试。
特朗普顾问最初曾计划让总统几乎每周都外出走访，以支持共和党候选人并宣传其政绩，尤其是在低投票率的特朗普支持者群体中——这是共和党11月选举所需的关键选民群体。
但这一早期计划因特朗普决定袭击伊朗而中断，由此引发的战争已持续两个月，暂无明确结束迹象。这场冲突进一步削弱了特朗普和共和党的政治支持率，同时将汽油价格推至每加仑4美元以上，加剧了共和党在民生议题上的困境，这一影响已波及整个美国经济。
尽管共和党内部对战争的担忧与日俱增，但特朗普顾问们淡化了战争的影响，坚称中期选举将主要由选民的国内关切决定。随着特朗普寻求结束战事，其团队的选举规划进度再次加快。
特朗普本月早些时候宣布，布莱尔将暂时离开白宫，负责领导这位总统资金雄厚的外部政治运作团队。盟友们称，此举对于协调党内各项政治活动至关重要。
据两位知情人士透露，前特朗普竞选团队高级官员、现任白宫政府间事务办公室负责人亚历克斯·迈耶（Alex Meyer）也将离职，协助开展外部政治工作。
此次人事变动再次引发共和党幕僚的猜测：特朗普顾问们计划如何动用总统核心超级政治行动委员会“MAGA Inc.”迄今已募集的近3.5亿美元资金。
“MAGA Inc.”官员尚未在党内广泛透露其战略计划——包括将投入多少资金支持众议院和参议院候选人，以及这笔开支何时启动。
Trump advisers privately strategize around a new midterm push: Democrats would be worse
2026-04-22T14:59:16.808Z / CNN
By Adam Cancryn
32 min ago
PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2026, 10:59 AM ET
President Donald Trump shakes hands as he departs after making remarks during a NCAA Collegiate National Champions Day event, in the State Dining Room of the White House on Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump’s political team knows voters aren’t thrilled with the current state of affairs. But they’re betting they can convince them things will get markedly worse if Democrats win back power in November.
Top Trump advisers are plotting an electoral push centered on messaging the midterms as a stark choice between the two parties’ platforms, rather than a direct referendum on the success of Trump’s presidency, according to four people involved in the private planning.
The strategy is driven by internal polling showing that Republicans still hold a trust advantage over the Democratic Party on some key issues, even as Americans have soured on Trump and his performance overall.
Chief of staff Susie Wiles and James Blair, who is leaving the White House to run Trump’s political operation, were among those who outlined the planned approach during a meeting with close allies at Washington’s Waldorf Astoria hotel earlier this week.
“Democrats want to make it a referendum on, ‘Do you think everything is perfect?’” one person in the room said, describing the overall message. “For us, it’s about, do you want to go forward and continue the work that is being successful and finish the job? Or go backwards to record inflation and high crime?”
Republicans are searching for ways to salvage their congressional majorities despite mounting headwinds, including an unpopular war in the Middle East and deep voter dissatisfaction over the cost of living.
That effort appeared to get even more challenging on Tuesday night, after Virginia voters approved a redistricting referendum that could net Democrats an additional four congressional seats in November. Republicans currently hold 217 seats in the House to Democrats’ 213, and one independent caucuses with the GOP.
The Trump team’s plans seem to tacitly acknowledge that the president has lost significant ground with voters over the last year, and that more energy needs to be put toward attacking Democrats as a result. Trump’s diminished approval ratings were not the subject of any extensive discussion during the Waldorf meeting, people in the room said.
Instead, advisers stressed the need to better elevate popular GOP policy accomplishments, while simultaneously portraying Democrats as obstructionists with no significant agenda of their own.
“It’s all forward looking and it’s not really about the White House,” said another person in the room. They described a key element of the approach as warning voters that if Democrats win control of part of all of Congress, “it means gridlock, it means nothing gets done at all. And we don’t believe that’s what the American public wants.”
There are several areas where Trump advisers believe Democrats are particularly weak, including their blanket opposition to the GOP tax policies in last year’s “big, beautiful bill,” as well as the party’s record on issues like border security and crime.
Still, advisers acknowledged that a key challenge remains lashing individual Democrats to the most unpopular parts of the party’s overall brand, the people in the room said. That’s even more complicated given the lack of a clear leader atop the Democratic Party who might serve as a singular representation of its agenda.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment. In a sign of the heightened secrecy surrounding Trump’s political operation, attendees at Monday’s meeting were asked to sign nondisclosure agreements, people in the room said.
Blair confirmed the NDA policy, which was first reported by The Washington Post, telling CNN they were required “because we’re running an operation, not a social club.”
Among those who attended the meeting: Chris LaCivita, a top GOP operative who helped steer Trump’s 2024 campaign; longtime Trump political adviser Jason Miller; and Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio.
The session was the latest in a series of private presentations led by Blair and Wiles in recent months, as the White House prepares for a midterm cycle that Trump has portrayed as critical to the future of his presidency.
Should Republicans lose their narrow majority in the House, Trump and GOP allies have warned it would effectively halt the administration’s agenda and expose it to a slew of investigations — potentially including fresh impeachment efforts.
Trump advisers had initially drawn up plans to put the president on the road nearly every week in a bid to bolster GOP candidates and promote his accomplishments, especially among the lower-turnout Trump voters who Republicans will need at the polls come November.
But that early blueprint was disrupted by Trump’s decision to strike Iran, kicking off a war that has now dragged on for two months with no clear end in sight. The conflict has further weakened Trump and Republicans’ political standing, while deepening the party’s affordability challenges by pushing the price of gas above $4 per gallon — which has reverberated across the wider economy.
Trump advisers have downplayed the impact of the war even amid growing anxieties throughout much of the GOP, insisting that midterm races will be determined primarily by voters’ domestic concerns. And as Trump has sought to wind down the fighting, the pace of his team’s electoral planning has picked up once again.
Trump announced earlier this month that Blair plans to temporarily leave the White House to helm the president’s deep-pocketed outside operation, in a move that allies described as critical to closely coordinating political activities across the party.
Alex Meyer, a former senior Trump campaign official who now runs the White House’s intergovernmental affairs office, is also expected to depart the administration to aid the outside efforts, two people familiar with the matter said.
The staffing moves have renewed speculation among GOP operatives over how Trump advisers are planning to deploy the nearly $350 million that the president’s central super PAC, MAGA Inc., has racked up so far.
MAGA Inc. officials have not yet widely telegraphed plans within the party about its strategy — including how much it will put toward boosting House and Senate candidates and when that spending will begin.