“如果我们把国家交给那些只会把美国人税收榨干的激进社会主义者……我们的处境会更糟”
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发布时间：2026年9月19日美国东部时间上午10:45 | 更新时间：2026年9月19日美国东部时间上午10:55
众议员汤姆·巴雷特就对手重新浮出水面的激进言论发起抨击
在这场势均力敌的摇摆选区中，共和党人汤姆·巴雷特就对手此前发表的有关废除警察、开放边境和“核心家庭”的言论提出批评。
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国会的控制权很可能取决于密歇根州第七国会选区。该选区以州首府兰辛为核心，拥有一座大型蓝色城市，周围环绕着红色郊区和深红农村地区。它一直被认为是全美竞争最激烈的摇摆选区之一。
众议员汤姆·巴雷特作为政坛新人，2024年以微弱优势赢得该选区席位，目前正与气候变化组织“日出运动”的活动家、创始人威廉·劳伦斯展开激烈角逐。
密歇根州州参议员汤姆·巴雷特——密歇根州第七国会选区共和党国会候选人——在竞选活动中向支持者发表讲话。（汤姆·巴雷特竞选团队 供图）
巴雷特拥有21年陆军直升机飞行员服役经历，曾多次海外部署，返回密歇根州后在州议会工作了近十年。
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这场竞选近期因一系列有争议的社交媒体帖子引发动荡。劳伦斯在其中一些帖子中称核心家庭“是一种孤立、暴力的社会组织方式”，并赞扬废除警察的运动。
他如今声称自己的观点已经改变。
巴雷特认为，这种新的转变是出于政治权宜之计，而非真正的信念转变：
“我认为我们应该相信他的话，这就是他绝对真实的意识形态，这绝不是他发表的某一次言论。他反复发表反警察言论，不仅呼吁削减经费，而是要彻底废除警察。他想要开放边境。他说，如果我们是一个人道的国家，就必须开放边境，重新分配所有财富。
“正如你所说，他称核心家庭是一种暴力的社会组织方式。他还有无数其他言论和行动，都表明这是一种行为模式，而非孤立事件。
“显然，任何中立观察者都能看出，他这么做是因为他在竞争激烈的选区参选，想要当选国会议员。他不会在拉希达·特莱布或奥卡西奥-科特兹的选区参选——那里的选民更同情那些与民主社会主义者组织（DSA）结盟的社会主义候选人。他参选的是我所在的选区，我在这里抚养自己的核心家庭。”
美国众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹（纽约州民主党）在众议院一系列投票结束后，于2026年7月22日在华盛顿特区国会大厦台阶上对记者发表讲话。（安娜·芒尼梅克/盖蒂图片社 供图）
巴雷特辩称，劳伦斯提出的边境和移民政策将对美国人的安全构成明确且现实的威胁：
“嗯，我对手的开放边境政策最明显的风险首先就是公共安全威胁。暂且抛开其他经济因素不谈：仅对我们社区的人身威胁就相当大。
“存在犯罪团伙活动。在拜登政府时期，贩毒集团得以在边境两侧自由活动。我们有超过1000万甚至1500万非法移民未经任何审查就进入我国。”
巴雷特还认为，芬太尼危机也与边境和移民政策直接相关。
“和我同年龄段的美国人的首要死亡原因不是癌症，也不是心脏病，而是芬太尼过量致死。我在军队服役时的战友，他们从战场幸存下来，却死于芬太尼过量……这些毒品正是通过我国边境涌入的。
“在我的人生中，我们首次看到芬太尼过量致死人数大幅下降，这主要归功于我们加强边境安保的努力。而我的对手威廉·劳伦斯则会完全推翻这一成果，再次开放边境，同时废除警察。
“我们只能推测，其后果将是更多美国人死于芬太尼过量，以及帮派活动和其他因边境开放、缺乏公共安全保障而引发的悲剧。”
美国众议院候选人威廉·劳伦斯与参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·赛义德、联邦参议员伯尼·桑德斯和众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹于2026年7月19日在密歇根州兰辛的集会上发表讲话。（安德鲁·罗斯/希帕美国通过路透社 供图）
威廉·劳伦斯也是民主社会主义者组织（DSA）的长期成员，但最近声称自己的会员资格已经过期。巴雷特认为，劳伦斯仍然是社会主义意识形态的狂热信徒，只是为了赢得竞争激烈的选举而试图淡化自己的真实信仰：
“嗯，我认为身为社会主义者应当让他在我的选区失去参选资格。你看看社会主义的核心原则以及他们想要推行的政策，还有他们对此的支持。
密歇根民主党候选人试图为已删除的、暴露极左立场的帖子辩解
“我的对手……巧妙地声称自己在初选前两周，也就是他即将获胜的前夕，停止了会员资格。他现在要在这场全国竞争最激烈的国会选举之一中与我对决，而这场选举很可能决定众议院的控制权。
“所以他并没有否认民主社会主义者的主张……他接受了他们的所有立场，获得了他们的全部支持，确实从民主社会主义运动的支持中获益匪浅。
“而当需要为这些立场辩护时，他却想说，好吧，我已经停止会员资格了，所以你不能因为他们的所有立场而问责我。但我退出并不是因为与他们有任何实质性分歧，我退出纯粹是出于政治原因，因为他如此专注于试图赢得这场选举，不顾一切地不想为自己的记录负责，而是想转移人们对社会主义破坏性影响的注意力，以及如果他当选国会议员，这对我们国家意味着什么。”
前西弗吉尼亚州参议员乔·曼钦于2025年9月15日周一参加了ABC的《观点》节目。（ABC/《观点》 供图）
劳伦斯最具争议的言论之一是一篇帖子，表达了对政客们在气候政策上的不满和愤怒。劳伦斯特别针对西弗吉尼亚州参议员乔·曼钦写道：“快点去死吧，这样我们才能开始行动。”
巴雷特认为，这类言论应当让第七选区的选民提高警惕：
“显然，这完全不合适，确实应该引起每一个理智美国人的注意，这种言论在我们国家是行不通的。政治是一场硬碰硬的较量……但在我的政治生涯中，任何竞选活动中，我都从未呼吁过政治人物‘去你的，快点去死吧’。
“这表明了极端化倾向……他是密歇根州《绿色新政联盟》的创始成员，呼吁禁止在我选区生产的汽油动力汽车，而这些汽车为我选区雇佣了数千名工人。”
中期选举通常取决于经济问题，而负担能力问题如今正推动着全美各地激烈选战的政治叙事。巴雷特辩称，国会共和党人已经在日常民生问题上取得了成果：
“嗯，我们降低了民众的税收负担，当然……我们扩大了儿童税收抵免。我们通过扩大标准扣除额为家庭节省了税款，简化了个人报税流程。小费不征税，加班费不征税，社会保障福利不征税。我想更进一步，实现医疗保健免税。为每位美国人提供免税健康储蓄账户，并扩大可使用该账户的范围，用于购买健康食品、健身房会员资格和健身器材。
民主社会主义者组织的成员于2019年5月1日劳动节在特朗普拥有的建筑外集会。（盖蒂图片社 供图）
“显然，随着伊朗冲突，我们也可以降低汽油价格，我再次按照自己的良知投了票，希望看到汽油价格下降，这也将影响经济中其他许多与负担能力相关的领域。这些都是我们可以实现的目标。
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“但如果我们把国家交给那些只会把美国人税收榨干的激进社会主义者，然后把福利发放给非法移民和那些拒绝工作、不参与经济活动的人，我们的处境会更糟。
“所以这是一场非常、非常重要的选举。我凭自己的实绩说话。我知道自己在国会里做了什么。我的工作就是走出去，向选区的选民阐明我的立场，并将其与我的对手所说的一切、他所支持的东西，以及他如果当选国会议员将会采取的行动所体现的行为模式进行对比。”
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Congressman Tom Barrett: ‘Being a socialist should disqualify him for people’s consideration in my district’
‘If we hand our country over to radical socialists who are simply going to tax Americans to death…we will be worse off for that’
2026-09-19T10:45:19-04:00 / Fox News
By David Unsworth Fox News
Published September 19, 2026 10:45am EDT | Updated September 19, 2026 10:55am EDT
Rep. Tom Barrett slams opponent over resurfaced radical posts
In a razor-thin swing district, Republican Tom Barrett calls out opponent over past comments on abolishing the police, open borders, and the “nuclear family.”
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Control of Congress may very well run through Michigan’s seventh district. Anchored by Lansing, the state capital, it features a large blue city, surrounded by reddish suburbs, and deep red rural areas. It is consistently described as one of the closest swing districts in the country.
Freshman Congressman Tom Barrett narrowly won the district in 2024, and is now locked in a tight race with William Lawrence, an activist and founder of the climate change-focused Sunrise Movement.
Republican Michigan state Sen. Tom Barrett, his party’s nominee for Congress in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, speaks to supporters on the campaign trail.(Tom Barrett For Congress)
Barrett is a 21-year Army veteran helicopter pilot, who served numerous deployments overseas, before returning to Michigan and spending nearly a decade in the state legislature.
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The race has recently been roiled by a series of controversial social media posts. In some of them, Lawrence called the nuclear family “an isolating, violent way of organizing society” and praised campaigns to abolish the police.
He now claims that his views have changed.
Barrett argues that the newfound shift is about political expediency, not genuine conviction:
“I think we got to take him at his word that this was his absolute true ideology and it wasn’t just this one statement that he made. He made repetitive statements against police, calling to not just defund but abolish the police altogether. He wanted to throw open the borders. He said if we’re a humane country, we’ve got to throw open the borders and redistribute all of the wealth.
“He called the nuclear family a violent way to organize society, as you said. Countless other statements that he’s made and other things that he has done that show a pattern of behavior that this is not an isolated incident.
“And obviously it’s clear to any neutral observer that he is doing this because he is running in a competitive district trying to get elected to Congress. He’s not running in Rashida Tlaib’s district or AOC’s district where they’re far more sympathetic to these DSA-aligned socialist candidates. He’s running in the district that I live in where I’m raising my own nuclear family.”
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on the House steps after a series of votes at the U.S. Capitol on July 22, 2026 in Washington, D.C.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Barrett contends that the implementation of Lawrence’s border and immigration policies would pose a clear and present danger to the safety of Americans:
“Well, the foremost obvious risk of these open border policies of my opponent is just starting with the public safety threat. So take out all of the other economic factors: just the physical threats to our communities are substantial.
“There are criminal gang activities. We have cartels that were freely operating both ways across the border under the Biden administration. We had upwards of ten or even fifteen million illegal immigrants that came into our country completely unvetted.”
Barrett also argues that the fentanyl crisis is directly tied to border and immigration policies as well.
“The leading cause of death of Americans my age wasn’t cancer, wasn’t heart disease, it was fentanyl overdose deaths. People that I served with in the military that came home and survived combat and died of fentanyl overdose…because of drugs that were pouring across our border.
“For the first time in my life, we have seen a significant decline in fentanyl overdose deaths, really because of the efforts…to secure our border, and my opponent, William Lawrence, would entirely reverse that, throw the border open again, abolish the police at the same time.
“And we can only assume the outcome of that would be far more Americans dying of fentanyl deaths, as well as gang activity and other tragic circumstances that arise when you have an open border and no public safety to protect Americans.”
U.S. House candidate William Lawrence speaks at a rally with U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Lansing, Mich., on July 19, 2026.(Andrew Roth/Sipa USA via Reuters)
William Lawrence is also a longtime member of the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), but recently claims that he let his membership lapse. Barrett argues that Lawrence remains a fervent believer in socialist ideology, but is merely trying to downplay his true beliefs to win a competitive race:
“Well, I think being a socialist should disqualify him for people’s consideration in my district. You look at the tenets of socialism and what they want to do and the endorsement of that.
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“My opponent…cleverly claims that he let his membership lapse, I don’t know, two weeks before the primary election on the eve of him winning…to face off against me in one of the most competitive congressional races in the country that will arguably decide control of the House of Representatives.
“So he doesn’t disavow the democratic socialists…He has embraced all of their positions, gathered all of their support, really benefited from the support of the democratic socialist movement.
“And then when the time comes to defend those positions, he wants to say, well I let my membership lapse so you can’t hold me accountable for all their positions. But I didn’t leave under any actual disagreement with them. I’m simply leaving for political reasons because he’s so focused on trying to win this election in a desperate attempt to not be accountable to his own record, but to distract away from the devastating effects of socialism and what that would mean for our country if he were elected.”
Former West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin joined ABC’s “The View” on Monday, September 15, 2025.(ABC/TheView)
Perhaps the most controversial of Lawrence’s statements involved a post expressing frustration and outrage with politicians on climate policy. Lawrence, specifically targeting West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, wrote: ‘Hurry up and die so that we can get started.’
Barrett believes that this type of rhetoric should put the voters of the seventh district on high alert:
“Obviously that’s entirely inappropriate, something that should really raise the attention of every single reasonable American to say that that’s not how we go about our rhetoric here in our country. Politics is a full contact sport…but I’ve never in my political life, in any campaign, called on political figures to ‘F you and hurry up and die.’
“And that shows the radicalization…He was a founding member of the Green New Deal Alliance in Michigan, calling to ban gasoline-powered vehicles that we build in my district that employ thousands of people in my district.”
Midterm elections generally hinge on economics and affordability issues are driving the political narrative today in tight races around the country. Barrett makes the case that congressional Republicans have delivered on everyday pocketbook issues:
“Well, we lowered costs on people’s taxes, certainly…and we expanded the child tax credit. We saved families taxes to the expanded standard deduction, streamlined filing for individuals. No taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, no tax on Social Security. I wanna take that a step further and have no taxes health care. Give every American a tax-exempt health savings account and expand the things that they can use it for, for healthy groceries, gym memberships, fitness equipment.
Members of the Democratic Socialists of America gather outside a Trump-owned building on May Day, May 1, 2019, in New York City.(Getty Images)
“Obviously bring down the cost of gas as well with the conflict in Iran that I have again voted my conscience on as well and want to see gas prices come down and that will affect a lot of other parts of the economy as well around affordability. These are things that we can face.
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“But if we hand our country over to radical socialists who are simply going to tax Americans to death and then pass on benefits to illegal immigrants and people who refuse to go to work and participate in the economy. We will be worse off for that.
“So this is a very, very important election. I stand on my own merits. I know what I’ve done here in Congress. It’s my job to go out and make the case to the voters in my district, and contrast that with the exact things that my opponent has said what he has stood for and what his pattern of behavior has shown in what he would do if he were elected to Congress.”
David Unsworth reports on Latin America. You can follow David Unsworth on Twitter @LatinAmerUpdate
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