发布时间：2026-10-24T10:30:15.915Z / 消息来源：美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
任何涉及唐纳德·特朗普的竞选活动注定会变得相当丑陋。2024年的竞选就因这位时任总统与时任副总统JD·万斯撒谎称俄亥俄州的海地移民在吃居民宠物而蒙上阴影。
但2026年的竞选才是真的丑陋——尤其是在共和党阵营。
暂且不论道德问题，关键在于这种丑陋行径是共和党战略的合理体现，还是孤注一掷的表现。看起来后者占了绝大多数。
本周的重大新闻是俄亥俄州共和党州长候选人维韦克·拉马斯瓦米的决定：投放一则广告，其中民主党人艾米·阿克顿疏远的母亲将女儿称为骗子。
广告中未明说的是：阿克顿表示，她自12岁起就再也没有见过母亲——当时母亲失去了对自己子女的监护权，而母亲的前夫因涉嫌虐待阿克顿被起诉。阿克顿的竞选团队则推出一则广告，由她的哥哥讲述他们遭受的虐待，并说道：“维韦克真可耻。”
拉马斯瓦米的这则广告引发了共和党及州长竞选的动荡。俄亥俄州多位知名共和党人——包括州长迈克·德万、参议员乔恩·赫斯特德、州务卿弗兰克·拉罗萨——以及其他地区的共和党人纷纷批评这则广告，比如爱荷华州参议院共和党候选人众议员阿什利·欣森，还有前南卡罗来纳州州长尼基·黑利（拉马斯瓦米的前总统竞选对手）。一些人批评这种做法将家庭创伤政治化，另一些人则担心这会产生反效果。
特朗普和万斯都敦促本党要统一立场，停止批评这则广告，特朗普还在周四晚上表示，他亲自帮忙说服拉马斯瓦米推进这则广告。
但这并不是本次中期选举中共和党堕入新低的唯一近期事例。
在得克萨斯州，万斯最近开了个玩笑，暗指民主党参议院提名者詹姆斯·塔利科是同性恋——加剧了长期以来针对他的相关暗示（尽管特朗普政府有多位知名官员是同性恋）。与此同时，“美国优先运动”（MAGA）炮制了一个后来被驳斥的阴谋论，称塔利科曾前往精神病院。
在密歇根州参议院竞选期间，前共和党众议员迈克·罗杰斯的竞选团队投放广告，声称其民主党对手阿卜杜勒·埃勒-赛义德“支持”恐怖分子，且他的“激进意识形态威胁我国国家安全”（这则广告及类似说法均歪曲了事实）。
在北卡罗来纳州，一名共和党国会候选人与共和党全国委员会联手投放一则广告，看似利用人工智能合成了她的对手与变装皇后跳舞的画面。
在缅因州，参议院共和党顶级超级政治行动委员会投放广播广告，援引相关报道称民主党提名者特洛伊·杰克逊的长期伴侣是他的远房表亲，广告中有一段合唱唱道：“如果他能骗自己的家人，也会骗你。”
共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯对此也间接提到，但她在周三呼吁撤下这则广告。该超级政治行动委员会“参议院领导基金”未回应CNN关于是否会按柯林斯建议行事的问询。
杰克逊的伴侣在周三的一篇专栏文章中委婉回应，称她从未想到杰克逊的对手“会堕落到这种地步”（杰克逊的竞选团队未直接回应这一指控）。而且，尽管共和党发动了攻击，似乎没人对曾是现代共和党标志性人物的鲁迪·朱利安尼曾与自己的远房表亲结婚一事感到困扰。
所有这些策略是否会奏效，时间会给出答案。但值得注意的是，针对塔利科的长期暗示似乎至今仍未帮助共和党人肯·帕克斯——他正陷入保卫这个红州席位的胶着竞选当中。
这些竞选中，民调显示民主党领先共和党、共和党领先的情况更多——不过许多民调的差距都在误差范围内。
尤其是俄亥俄州的州长竞选，可能正逐渐脱离共和党掌控。CNN的民调平均值显示，阿克顿以50%对44%领先6个百分点，而平均值中的所有民调都是在拉马斯瓦米广告相关新闻曝光前进行的。
因此，你或许能理解为何拉马斯瓦米的竞选团队可能想尝试些新招数。事实上，这段视频周一首次曝光时，并未注明制作方，拉马斯瓦米最初也未认领。但后来他接受了这则广告，特朗普还称他鼓励拉马斯瓦米保留这则广告。
赫斯特德和欣森选择与这则广告划清界限，这显然表明他们担心这会影响自己的竞选。
品格甚至是暗中攻击长期以来都是两党竞选的一部分，但通常竞选团队会与这类攻击保持距离，让别人做这种见不得人的事。
本周，我们看到总统和副总统不仅为俄亥俄州的这则广告辩护，还给出了相当马基雅维利式的理由。
欣森表示，阿克顿“不得不重温那段创伤”是“绝对糟糕的事”，而万斯则淡化了道德问题。
“广告是否合适其实不是我关心的，”他说道，并补充称共和党人应该“停止对一则广告发牢骚，13天后去赢得选举”。
尽管声称自己对涉及涉嫌儿童性虐待的背景情况“一无所知”，特朗普仍称赞阿克顿母亲发声的“勇气”。他表示，即便这位母亲的说法只有一丁点真实性，也足以剥夺阿克顿担任州长的资格。
在记者追问有关涉嫌虐待的问题时，这位总统反复为这则广告辩护。
显而易见的是，美国政治正变得越来越厚颜无耻。如果今年共和党能凭借这种策略取得成效，未来很可能会变得更糟。
The 2026 campaign is getting ugly — especially on the right
Published: 2026-10-24T10:30:15.915Z / Source: CNN
Any campaign that involves Donald Trump is bound to get pretty ugly. The 2024 campaign was marred by the now-president and now-Vice President JD Vance falsely claiming Haitian migrants in Ohio were eating people’s pets.
But the 2026 campaign is really ugly — especially on the Republican side.
Morality aside, the question is whether that ugliness is a sign of sound GOP strategy or of desperation. It seems to be a large helping of the latter.
The big news this week has been Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s decision to run an ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar.
Left unsaid in the ad: Acton has said she hasn’t seen her mother since she was 12 years old, when her mother lost custody of her children and the man she married was indicted for allegedly sexually abusing Acton. Acton’s campaign has countered with an ad featuring her brother talking about the abuse they endured and saying, “Shame on Vivek.”
The Ramaswamy ad has roiled the GOP and the gubernatorial race. Prominent Ohio Republicans — including Gov. Mike DeWine, Sen. Jon Husted and Secretary of State Frank LaRose — have criticized the ad, as have Republicans elsewhere, like Iowa GOP Senate candidate Rep. Ashley Hinson and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a former presidential rival of Ramaswamy. Some are criticizing the politicization of a family trauma. Others are fearing it will backfire.
Trump and Vance have both urged their party to get with the program and stop criticizing the ad, and Trump said Thursday night that he personally helped convince Ramaswamy to move forward with it.
But that’s not the only recent example of the GOP stooping to new lows in this midterm campaign.
In Texas, Vance recently made a joke that implied Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is gay — elevating a long-running campaign of innuendo on that front. (This despite prominent Trump administration officials being gay.) And meanwhile, MAGA fueled a later-debunked conspiracy theory that Talarico had gone to a mental hospital.
In the Michigan Senate race, GOP former Rep. Mike Rogers’ campaign is running an ad saying his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, “supported” terrorists and that his “radical ideology is a threat to our national security.” (The ad and similar claims distort the facts.)
In North Carolina, a GOP congressional candidate and the national GOP have teamed up on an ad that appears to use AI to depict her opponent dancing with drag queens.
And in Maine, the top Senate GOP super PAC is running a radio ad citing reports that Democratic nominee Troy Jackson’s longtime partner is his second cousin, with a chorus saying, “If he’ll screw his own family, he’ll screw yours, too.”
GOP Sen. Susan Collins has coyly alluded to this too, but on Wednesday she called for the ad to be taken down. The super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund, hasn’t responded to a CNN inquiry about whether it plans to do as Collins suggested.
Jackson’s partner responded obliquely in an op-ed on Wednesday, saying she never thought Jackson’s opponents “would stoop this low.” (Jackson’s campaign hasn’t directly addressed the claim.) And despite the GOP attack, Republicans didn’t seem troubled that a once-iconic modern GOP politician, Rudy Giuliani, married his second cousin.
Time will tell whether any of these tactics pays off. But it’s worth noting that the long-running innuendo about Talarico doesn’t seem to have thus far helped Republican Ken Paxton, who’s locked in a tight race to defend this red-state seat.
Many of these races feature more polls with the Democrat numerically leading than the Republican — though many polls are within the margin of error.
The Ohio gubernatorial race, especially, could be getting away from the GOP. CNN’s Poll of Polls average shows Acton up by 6 points, 50%-44%, with all surveys in the average conducted before news about Ramaswamy’s ad.
So, you could perhaps understand why Ramaswamy’s campaign might want to try something. Indeed, when the video first surfaced on Monday, it included no disclaimer about who was behind it, and Ramaswamy didn’t initially claim it. But he later embraced it, and Trump has said he encouraged him to keep the ad up.
Husted’s and Hinson’s decisions to distance themselves from the ad certainly suggest they’re worried about its impact on their races.
Character and even underhanded attacks have long been a part of campaigns from both sides, but often the campaigns will try to keep them at arm’s length and let others do their dirty work.
This week, we saw both the president and the vice president not just defending the Ohio ad, but making rather Machiavellian cases for it.
While Hinson said it was “absolutely terrible” for Acton to have “to relive that trauma,” Vance shrugged off the moral issues.
“Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern,” he said, adding that Republicans should “stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days.”
And despite claiming to know “nothing about” the backstory involving alleged child sex abuse, Trump praised Acton’s mother for her “courage” in speaking out. He said even a smidgeon of truth in the mother’s claims should disqualify Acton from serving as governor.
And pressed by reporters about the alleged abuse, the president repeatedly defended the ad.
What’s clear is that American politics is becoming more shameless. And if that strategy pays off for the GOP this year, it’s likely to get a lot worse moving forward.
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