2026-08-11T19:27:06.969Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
唐纳德·特朗普总统在最新一场采访中拒绝排除宣布国家紧急状态的可能，以此作为试图进一步管控2026年中期选举的手段。
这不过是最新一则预警信号，表明特朗普可能不仅会像2020年那样，毫无根据地宣称选民欺诈并在选举后质疑结果——那场风波最终引发美国国会大厦暴力骚乱——还可能试图在投票开始前单方面掌控选举进程。
在此次采访中，“美国真实之声”电视台的韦恩·阿林·鲁特向特朗普提出了这一设想。他表示，鉴于参议院未能通过特朗普梦寐以求的选举法案《拯救美国法案》，这一方案可作为替代选项。
“如果他们始终无法通过《拯救美国法案》，你有权宣布选举相关的国家紧急状态，”鲁特说道。他补充道：“如果你作为美国总统宣布国家紧急状态，没人能够反对，只有国会参众两院三分之二的投票才能推翻该决定。因此如果你在未来一个月内采取这一行动，我们就能推行选民身份证、选民登记公民身份核验，以及限制邮寄选票等措施。”
就在此时，特朗普打断了鲁特，并隐晦地暗示这一选项确实在考虑范围内。
“我只想说，无奇不有，好吧？”特朗普说道，“我就说到这里。”
尽管鲁特发表了上述言论，但这一策略能否奏效仍远未明朗。CNN已向白宫询问总统此番表态的更多细节。
特朗普经常对假设性提议拒绝排除可能性——无论该提议有多极端——因此人们有可能对此次表态解读过度。
但正如CNN的杰克·塔珀所指出的，有大量迹象表明，特朗普至少渴望尝试进一步掌控选举进程，而这些手段往往明显旨在帮助共和党。
其中一个重要信号是，特朗普政府威胁称，若不按要求交出选民名单，美国邮政总局将不为相关州递送邮寄选票。即便许多共和党州也以隐私顾虑为由拒绝了这一要求。
民主党人更倾向于使用邮寄选票，而特朗普毫无根据地将其与大规模欺诈挂钩。因此限制邮寄选票可能会极大地帮助共和党。
（联邦法院已叫停该特朗普行政令，政府近期已向最高法院提起上诉。）
特朗普还不遗余力地试图证实其仍无依据的大规模欺诈言论。其中包括政府收缴佐治亚州富尔顿县2020年的选票，以及特朗普近期发表的选举安全黄金时段演讲，一些人将该演讲解读为一份意图声明——以此为借口更直接地介入由各州负责的选举事务。
曾在特朗普第一任期担任白宫法律顾问的泰·科布表示，他将上月的那场演讲解读为“他需要宣布进入紧急状态的前置声明”。
而特朗普也曾多次表态，比如在此次新采访中，暗示他希望掌控美国选举。
早在今年2月，他就敦促其政党“至少在15个地区接管投票事务”，并补充道：“共和党人应该将选举事务全国化。”
《华盛顿邮报》今年3月也曾报道，支持特朗普的活动人士正在传阅一份潜在的行政令，声称2020年大选遭遇中国干预，这赋予特朗普管控2026年选举的紧急权力。而特朗普的那场黄金时段演讲聚焦中国，尽管相关证据十分牵强。
特朗普对《拯救美国法案》的高度关注也可被视为为采取更激进行动构建理由的一部分。该法案似乎从未有过通过的可能，但特朗普称其至关重要。
但正如鲁特所假设的，特朗普能否自行接管选举进程仍远未确定。
正如CNN的马歇尔·科恩和迈克尔·威廉姆斯今年2月报道的那样，美国宪法使得特朗普真正“将选举全国化”难度极大。法院几乎无一例外地支持各州负责选举事务的原则。
总统在涉及国家安全的情况下通常拥有更多单方面行动的权力——这也是援引中国议题的意义所在——但一些专家质疑特朗普的这一尝试能否通过法律审查。
Trump declines to rule out declaring a national security emergency to control the 2026 election
2026-08-11T19:27:06.969Z / CNN
President Donald Trump in a new interview declined to rule out declaring a national security emergency as a means to try to assert more control over the 2026 midterm elections.
It’s merely the latest warning sign that Trump could try to mess with the election not just by baselessly claiming voter fraud and challenging the results afterward — as he did in 2020, leading to a violent riot at the US Capitol — but by trying to unilaterally take control before votes are cast.
In the interview, Wayne Allyn Root of Real America’s Voice pitched such a scenario to Trump. He suggested it as an alternative, given the Senate has failed to pass Trump’s coveted elections bill, known as the “SAVE America Act.”
“If they never get the SAVE America Act done, you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections,” Root said. He added that “if you declare a national security emergency as the president of the United States, they can’t challenge it. It can only be overturned by a two-thirds vote by both houses of Congress. So if you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship (for voter registration) and a limit to mail-in ballots.”
It’s at this point that Trump cut Root off and coyly suggested such an option was indeed in play.
“Let me just say that stranger things have happened, OK?” Trump said. “I’ll leave it at that.”
Despite Root’s comments, it’s far from clear such a gambit would even work. And CNN has asked the White House for more detail on what the president meant.
Trump often responds to hypotheticals by declining to rule them out — no matter how extreme the proposal might be. So it’s possible to read too much into this.
But as CNN’s Jake Tapper has noted, there are plenty of signals that Trump at least aspires to try to exert more control over elections. And these methods often appear transparently geared toward helping Republicans.
A major one is the administration’s threat to have the US Postal Service not deliver mail ballots for states that don’t comply with its demand that they hand over their voter lists. This is a request that even many red states have rejected, citing privacy concerns.
Democrats are much more likely to use mail ballots, which Trump has baselessly connected to widespread fraud. So curtailing them could greatly help Republicans.
(Federal courts have blocked this Trump executive order, and the administration recently appealed to the Supreme Court.)
Trump has also gone to great lengths to try to substantiate his still-baseless claims of widespread fraud. That includes the administration seizing 2020 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, and Trump’s recent primetime address about election security that some read as a statement of intent — a pretext for more direct federal involvement in elections, which are run by states.
Ty Cobb, who served as White House counsel in Trump’s first term, said he interpreted the speech last month as a “predicate that he needs to declare an emergency.”
And Trump has occasionally said things, like he did in the new interview, suggesting he would like to take control of US elections.
Back in February, he urged his party to “take over the voting in at least 15 places,” adding: “The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”
The Washington Post also reported in March that pro-Trump activists were circulating a potential executive order that claimed Chinese interference in the 2020 election gave Trump emergency authorities over the 2026 election. And Trump’s primetime address focused on China, despite the tenuous evidence.
Trump’s intense focus on the “SAVE America Act,” which has never appeared to have a chance to pass but Trump has said is vital, could also be read as part of building the case for more drastic action.
But whether Trump could take over elections himself, as Root posits, is far from certain.
As CNN’s Marshall Cohen and Michael Williams reported in February, the Constitution makes it difficult for Trump to truly “nationalize” elections. Courts have overwhelmingly upheld the principle that states are in charge of elections.
Presidents generally have more authority to act unilaterally when national security is involved — hence the significance of invoking China — but some experts are skeptical that Trump’s effort would pass legal muster.
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