2026年8月31日 美国东部时间上午10:26 / CNN
作者：亚伦·布莱克
华盛顿——
我至今仍清晰记得2006年我在华盛顿竞聘政治报道岗位的第一次面试。
那份工作是撰写众议院和参议院竞选相关内容，我记得当时我花在谈论哪些中期选举竞选活动让我感兴趣的时间，比谈论自己为何是这份工作合适人选的时间还要多。
（郑重说明一下，我当时的冷门预判——共和党拿下佛蒙特州单一席位的美国众议院席位——最终落空了。但我还是得到了那份工作。）
我一直更喜欢中期选举，而非备受大肆宣传的总统选举。在总统大选年，所有人都将注意力高度集中在一场竞选上——下一届总统会是谁——但中期选举真的给了像我这样的政治爱好者机会，让我们能深入研究这个幅员辽阔、国情多样的国家里的大量竞选活动。
通往2026年中期选举之路现已开启
- 每周，亚伦·布莱克都会梳理政治杂音，对可能决定国会控制权的竞选、候选人和趋势进行犀利分析。订阅《20/26愿景》，这份每周一期的新闻简报将聚焦今年的中期选举。
谁能想到到了2026年，参议院的多数席位可能会由阿拉斯加州内陆地区的选民、南德克萨斯州的拉丁裔选民，或是担忧唐纳德·特朗普总统对加拿大发动贸易战的缅因州民众决定？
至少现在我还不知道。但我确切知道的是，这一切都将既引人入胜又意义重大，两院的多数席位都明显易主，同时特朗普的跛脚鸭任期可能提前启动的风险也悬而未决。
这也正是我们CNN团队推出一份短期每周新闻简报的原因，旨在让您及时了解参众两院争夺战中最重要的动态。
相关报道： 8月14日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在纽约州花园城的拿骚县警察学院培训与情报中心发表讲话。肯特·西村/法新社/盖蒂图片社 特朗普已找到共和党若输掉中期选举的替罪羊 阅读时长5分钟
通过《20/26愿景》，我将在每周四为您带来所有重要新闻、趋势、民调和评论，从9月初一直持续到11月大选，并为您解读这些信息为何重要，以及它们对后续竞选意味着什么。
我们的宗旨是为您提供掌握选举动态所需的全部内容，同时不会让您应接不暇——如果您想深入了解，也会为您指明其他相关内容的方向。
2026年中期选举转眼就到——那就和我一起，在未来几周里审视选举的实际情况吧。
您甚至可能会发现，它们比总统选举更有意思。
今年的中期选举将决定谁将掌控美国国会。
图片：布伦丹·霍夫曼/盖蒂图片社
The 2026 midterms are coming fast. Introducing CNN’s 20/26 Vision newsletter
August 31, 2026 10:26 AM ET / CNN
By Aaron Blake
Washington—
I still remember my first job interview to cover politics in Washington back in 2006.
The job was writing about House and Senate campaigns, and I think I spent more time talking about which midterm races I was interested in than why I was the right candidate for the job.
(For the record, my sleeper pick – Republicans winning Vermont’s at-large US House seat – turned out to be wrong. But I got the job.)
I’ve always preferred midterm elections to the much more ballyhooed presidential ones. In presidential years, everyone focuses so much on one race – who the next president will be – but midterms really give nerds like me a chance to sink our teeth into a bunch of contests in our vast and disparate nation.
The road to the 2026 midterms starts now
- Each week, Aaron Blake cuts through the political noise with sharp analysis of the races, candidates and trends that could decide control of Congress. Sign up for 20/26 Vision, a weekly newsletter focusing on this year’s midterms.
Who knows in 2026 whether the Senate majority might be decided by rural voters in the Bush of Alaska, Latino voters of South Texas, or by Mainers worried about President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada?
Not me – at least not yet. But what I do know is that it’s all going to be fascinating and consequential, with both chambers’ majorities clearly in play and a potential early start of Trump’s lame-duck status on the line.
And that’s why we here at CNN are launching a short-run weekly newsletter devoted to keeping you updated on the most important developments in the battle for the House and Senate.
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With 20/26 Vision, I’ll serve you all the major news, trends, polls and comments on Thursday every week starting in early September through the November election, and tell you why they’re important and what they mean for the race ahead.
The point is to give you everything you need to keep track of where things are, without overwhelming you – and to point you to other content if you want to go deeper.
The 2026 midterm elections will be here before you know it – so join me in examining the state of play in the coming weeks.
You might even decide they’re more interesting than electing a president.
This year’s midterm elections will determine who controls US Congress.
photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images
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