2026-10-04T20:33:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
迈阿密电 —— 在国会和佛罗里达州众议院任职的九年里，佛罗里达州共和党众议员拜伦·唐纳兹几乎从未将自己的种族作为政治宣传的一部分。而在上周末，他在迈阿密地区一系列面向黑人选民的拉票活动中，终于谈及了自己的种族——态度谨慎，且完全按照自己的方式进行。
在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，这位佛罗里达州州长的共和党候选人表示，他的目标是拿下“20%以上”的黑人选票。
“我认为有很多黑人选民正在关注我的竞选活动，因为他们只是想弄清楚谁才是带领佛罗里达走向未来的最佳人选，”唐纳兹说道，“还有一点，黑人选民开始不再像过去那样，一成不变地绑定在民主党身上。”
作为对比，根据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的出口民调数据，2022年约有13%的黑人选民支持州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯的连任竞选。2024年总统竞选期间，特朗普总统在佛罗里达州拿下了约15%的黑人选票。
2024年，唐纳兹是特朗普总统在全国范围内面向黑人选民最知名的支持者之一，他与来自得克萨斯州的众议员韦斯利·亨特共同牵头了多城巡回活动，活动主题为“国会、雪茄与干邑”——这类非正式的座谈旨在向来并不总是持接纳态度的群体宣传特朗普的主张。如今，他正将这套竞选策略用在自己身上，从支持者变为主角候选人。
如果唐纳兹当选，他将跻身少数黑人州级官员的精英行列。美国历史上仅有三位当选州长的黑人。唐纳兹是今年三位有望成为美国有史以来首位黑人共和党州长的候选人之一。
当被问及创造历史对他而言意味着什么时，唐纳兹停顿了一下，暗自笑了笑，短暂卸下了防备。“说实话，这太不可思议了，”他告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻——这对于一位在竞选期间一直避免基于身份认同进行诉求的候选人来说，是极为罕见的表态。
“在这场竞选活动中，我不会谈论我的种族，”唐纳兹在周六举行的黑人专业人士峰会遗产大会上对人群说道，这是他针对这一关键票仓的多场活动之一。“佛罗里达是一个精英社会。在这里，人们来自全国各地。他们真正在意的是：你能把工作做好吗？”
共和党佛罗里达州州长候选人拜伦·唐纳兹于2026年10月3日周六在黑人专业人士峰会遗产大会上发表讲话。 塞吉·山下/哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
遗产大会的组织者告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他们也邀请了民主党候选人戴维·乔利在峰会上发表演讲，但乔利以日程冲突为由并未出席。
距离竞选仅剩不到一个月的时间，唐纳兹还驳斥了有关他的少数族裔拉票活动是临时之举或范围狭窄的批评。“我们实际上瞄准的是每一位选民，”他指出，其团队在北迈阿密和布劳沃德县针对黑人选民挨家挨户敲门拉票，在多拉和海厄利亚针对西班牙裔选民开展工作，等等。
但一些在南佛罗里达巡回活动中接触到的选民表示，他对特朗普总统的忠诚影响了他们对他的看法。在迈阿密花园一家黑人所有的洛娜加勒比餐厅的拜会活动中，54岁的杰梅因·伍德赛德表示，他最初持怀疑态度，但在长达一小时的晚餐交谈后，对这位众议员的看法变得更加开放，尽管他直言唐纳兹不应与特朗普扯上关系。“这会对他造成伤害，这也是我原本不愿参与他竞选活动的原因，”伍德赛德告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻。
唐纳兹告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，选民不应仅根据他与特朗普的过往经历来评判他。
“看看我正在推进的议题，看看我所谈论的主张。没错，总统已经背书了我。没错，几年前我也曾背书他竞选总统。但我这次参选是为了成为佛罗里达州的州长，”他说道。
并非所有人都被说服。迈阿密居民卡琳·詹姆斯独自出席了唐纳兹在以黑人为主的奥弗敦社区一处户外场地举办的见面会。当唐纳兹在会场与其他参会者交谈时，詹姆斯安静地在现场抗议，手持一块写有“投票给蓝营”并划掉唐纳兹名字的标语牌。
“我只是认为他并没有真正意识到自己的处境，”詹姆斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“说实话，[他的当选]固然会创造历史，但我认为他会站在历史错误的一边。”
无党派投票权利组织“平等阵地”的创始人贾斯敏·伯尼-克拉克的批评更为尖锐。她指出，唐纳兹拒绝签署该组织的候选人承诺书，承诺将签署民主党支持的州级投票权利法案——而乔利已经签署了该承诺书——并认为他周末的活动并非出于诚意。
“拜伦·唐纳兹从竞选开始到结束，一直都在打着‘黑人’的旗号，”伯尼-克拉克告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“黑人选民不会被他为拉拢选票而采取的针对性操纵手段所欺骗。”
此次拉票活动开展之际，近期民调显示这场竞选竞争异常激烈，而民主党自20世纪90年代以来就未曾拿下过该州长职位。对唐纳兹而言，即便政治立场复杂，数学逻辑很清晰：缩小与黑人选民的支持差距，民主党重返州长府的道路就会变得更加艰难。
Florida GOP governor candidate Byron Donalds courts skeptical Black voters
2026-10-04T20:33:00-0400 / CBS News
MIAMI — For most of his nine years in Congress and Florida’s state House, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, of Florida, rarely made his race part of his political pitch. This past weekend, in a string of Black voter outreach events across the Miami area, he did — carefully, and on his own terms.
In an interview with CBS News, the Republican nominee for Florida governor said he’s now targeting “north of 20%” of the Black vote.
“I think there’s a lot of Black voters who are looking at my campaign because they’re just trying to figure out who’s going to be the best person to lead Florida into the future,” Donalds said. “I think the other thing with Black voters: they’re starting to not be as monolithically tied to the Democrat Party.”
For comparison, around 13% of Black voters backed Gov. Ron DeSantis’s reelection bid in 2022, according to CBS News exit polls. President Trump won around 15% of Black votes in Florida during his 2024 presidential bid.
In 2024, Donalds was one of Mr. Trump’s most visible surrogates to Black voters nationally, co-headlining a multi-city tour with Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas billed as “Congress, Cigars & Cognac” — informal, sit-down conversations meant to make the case for Mr. Trump in rooms that weren’t always receptive. Now he’s running that same playbook for himself, as the principal rather than the surrogate.
A potential win for Donalds would put him in an exclusive club of Black state executives. Only three elected governors have been Black in U.S. history. Donalds is among three nominees this year who would be the first Black Republican governors ever elected.
Asked what it would mean to him to make history, Donalds paused, smiled to himself, and let his guard down for a moment. “It’s wild, honestly,” he told CBS News — a rare admission from a candidate who has spent his campaign avoiding identity-based appeals.
“I don’t talk about my race in this campaign,” Donalds told a crowd at the Black Professionals Summit’s Legacy Con on Saturday, one of several stops targeting the key voting bloc. “Florida is a meritocracy. Here in Florida, we have people who have come from so many different parts of the country. What they really care about now is: Can you get the job done?”
Republican Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds speaks at the Black Professionals Summit’s Legacy Con on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. Seiji Yamashita/CBS News
Legacy Con’s organizers told CBS News they also invited Democratic nominee David Jolly to address the summit, but he didn’t attend, citing a scheduling conflict.
With less than a month of campaigning left, Donalds also pushed back on criticism that his minority outreach was new or narrow. “We’re actually targeting every voter,” he said, pointing to his team’s door-knocking aimed at Black voters in North Miami and Broward County, Hispanic voters in Doral and Hialeah, and more.
But some voters he met during his South Florida swing say his loyalty to the president is clouding their opinion of him. At a retail stop at the Black-owned Lorna’s Caribbean Restaurant in Miami Gardens, Jermaine Woodside, 54, said he came in skeptical but left more open to the congressman after an hour-long dinner conversation, even as he said bluntly that Donalds should not associate himself with Mr. Trump. “That’s going to hurt him, and that’s the reason why I was reluctant to be a part of his campaign,” Woodside told CBS News.
Donalds told CBS News voters shouldn’t judge him solely on his history with Mr. Trump.
“Look at the issues I’m pushing forward. Look at the ideas that I talk about. Yes, the president’s endorsed me. Yes, a couple years ago I endorsed him to be president. But I’m running to be governor of Florida,” he said.
Not everyone was swayed. Miami resident Kalyn James came alone to a meet-and-greet Donalds hosted at an outdoor event space in the predominantly Black Overtown neighborhood. James quietly protested the event by holding a sign that read “Vote Blue” with Donalds’ name crossed out while he worked the room, talking to other attendees.
“I just don’t think that he has a buy-in that he thinks he has,” James told CBS News. “And honestly, [his win] would make history, but I think he’d be on the wrong side of history.”
Jasmine Burney-Clark, founder of the nonpartisan voting rights group Equal Ground, had sharper criticism. She noted Donalds declined to sign her organization’s candidate pledge, affirming an intent to sign into law a Democratic-backed state voting rights bill — which Jolly did sign — and argued his weekend events were not genuine.
“Byron Donalds has been Black at the start of this election, and he will be Black at the end of this election,” Burney-Clark told CBS News. “Black voters are not going to be fooled by his targeting and his manipulation tactics to pander to get their vote.”
The outreach comes as recent polling shows a surprisingly tight race for an office a Democrat hasn’t won since the 1990s. For Donalds, the math is clear even if the politics are complicated: close the gap with Black voters, and Democrats’ path back to the governor’s mansion gets much harder.
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