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今年的中期选举带有历史回响，这是自1974年以来对共和党最严厉的一次谴责。当年，水门事件、通胀和失业问题主导了竞选；而在那一年，民主党赢得了291个众议院席位（翻转了49个共和党席位），并斩获了4个参议院席位。
继上周二的选举后，民主党如今在国会参众两院都拥有稳固的多数席位。佛罗里达州共和党籍州长里克·德桑蒂斯称这“对共和党而言近乎灭绝级事件”。
在堪萨斯州、南卡罗来纳州和得克萨斯州等红州也出现了令人震惊的意外结果。得克萨斯州共和党参议员特德·克鲁兹表示，这是“堪比水门事件的否决”。
马里兰州前州长、共和党人拉里·霍根表示，他的政党正处于一个十字路口。他说，特朗普时代许多共和党人害怕与总统走得太远的心态已经改变。“哦，我觉得这周二就变了，”他说，并将今年的中期选举称为“共和党有史以来最糟糕的一次选举”。
他补充说，对于那些仍在任、不愿直接与特朗普对抗的共和党人，“就像懦弱的狮子一样，他们会发现自己其实一直都有勇气。”
有人问霍根，选民要怎样才会再次信任共和党：“他们不满现状，把所有共和党人都赶下去了，”他回答道。“现在民主党掌权了。他们没有白宫，但控制了国会两院。所以，现在他们必须切实兑现承诺。两党接下来的举措肯定会很有意思。我的政党需要好好反思，我们今后该何去何从。”
“是‘好好反思’吗？”霍根笑道，“是‘彻底反思’！”
“我将其比作葛底斯堡战役”
特朗普总统在选举日告诉《周日早晨》节目，他将对民主党发起强硬反击；而在周五，他任命了态度强硬的斯蒂芬·米勒为白宫幕僚长。
由纽约州的哈基姆·杰弗里斯（即将成为史上首位黑人众议院议长）领导的民主党正在加紧推进调查。
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即将执掌强大的众议院司法委员会的马里兰州众议员杰米·拉斯金表示，民主党将通过法治让特朗普总统承担责任。
他也不认为国会应该牺牲调查而聚焦经济：“这不是非此即彼的问题，”拉斯金说。“比如法国大革命，还记得玛丽·安托瓦内特说‘让他们吃蛋糕’的时候吗？这到底是问责与暴政的问题，是政府腐败的问题？还是物价与生活水平的问题？两者都是！威权主义和暴政对民众来说代价极高。
“唐纳德·特朗普的情况完全一样，”拉斯金说。“所以，我们要追查腐败？当然，毫无疑问。我们要解决物价问题、改善民众生活？当然，毫无疑问。我们两者都要做。”
拉斯金还认为，选举过后，两党合作是有可能的。“当然，”他说。“我前几天看到JD·万斯发表了一次演讲。他正在迅速改口，试图与伊朗战争划清界限。让我们以两党合作的方式，努力摆脱他们给我们留下的烂摊子。关税问题也是一样，对吧？他们都在对关税改口。”
但拉斯金表示，在民主党上周二大获全胜后，该党对未来的道路没有幻想：“这是一场巨大的胜利，但我将其比作葛底斯堡战役，这是内战的转折点，但并非战争的结束，”他说。“还有很多仗要打。至少表面上看，特朗普还有两年任期。这场斗争远未结束。我们仍在生死之战中。”
本报道由玛丽·拉法利制作。编辑：埃德·吉夫尼什。
Leading Dem on midterms aftermath: “We’re still in the fight of our lives”
November 8, 2026 / 9:24 AM EST / CBS News
There were echoes of history in this year’s midterm election, one of the biggest rebukes of Republicans since 1974, when Watergate, inflation and unemployment dominated the campaign. That year, Democrats won 291 seats in the House of Representatives (flipping 49 GOP-held seats), and picked up four Senate seats.
Following last Tuesday’s elections, Democrats now have robust majorities in both houses of Congress. Florida’s Republican Governor Rick DeSantis called it “close to an extinction-level event for Republicans.”
There were also stunning upsets in red states, including Kansas, South Carolina and Texas. It was, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz said, “a Watergate-level repudiation.”
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, says his party is at a crossroads. He says the dynamic of many Republicans in the Trump Era being fearful of getting too far away from the president has changed. “Oh, I think it changed on Tuesday,” he said, calling this year’s midterms “the most disastrous election for Republicans ever.”
He added that, of Republicans still in office who don’t want to fight Mr. Trump directly, “Like the Cowardly Lion, they’ll find that they actually had courage all along.”
Hogan was asked what it would take for voters to trust the GOP again: “They didn’t like the status quo, and they threw out all the Republicans,” he replied. “The Democrats are now in charge. They don’t have the White House, but they do have both houses of Congress. And so, now they have to actually deliver on their promises. It’s going to be really interesting to see what both parties do. My party has to do a little bit of soul-searching about where do we go from here.”
More than a little bit? “A lot!” Hogan laughed.
“I liken it to the Battle of Gettysburg”
President Trump told “Sunday Morning” on Election Day that he will push back hard against Democrats, and on Friday he named the confrontational Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff.
Democrats, led by New York’s Hakeem Jeffries (soon to be the first-ever Black Speaker of the House), are ramping up investigations.
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Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, set to chair the powerful House Judiciary Committee, says Democrats are going to hold President Trump accountable through the rule of law.
He also does not think Congress should focus on the economy at the expense of investigations: “It’s not an either/or proposition,” Raskin said. “Take, for example, the French Revolution. Remember when Marie Antoinette said, ‘Let them eat cake’? Now, is that a problem of accountability and tyranny, a corrupt government? Or is it a problem of affordability and standard of living? It’s both! Authoritarianism and tyranny are extremely expensive for the people.
“And it’s the exact same thing when you go down the line with Donald Trump,” Raskin said. “So, are we going to go after the corruption? Yeah, you’re damn right. And are we going to go after affordability and making people’s lives easier? Yeah, you’re damn right. We’re going to do both of them.”
Raskin also believes that, post-elections, bipartisanship is possible. “Sure,” he said. “I saw JD Vance make a speech the other day. He’s rapidly backpedaling and trying to dissociate himself from the Iran War. Let’s work in a bipartisan way to try to extricate ourselves from the mess they got us into. Same thing with the tariffs, right? They’re all backpedaling from the tariffs.”
But Raskin says, following his party’s major wins last Tuesday, Democrats have no illusions about the road ahead: “It was a huge victory, but I liken it to the Battle of Gettysburg, which was a turning point in the Civil War, but it wasn’t the end of it,” he said. “There were a lot more battles to come. And Donald Trump still has two years in office, at least on paper. This struggle is not over by a long shot. We’re still in the fight of our lives.”
Story produced by Mary Raffalli. Editor: Ed Givnish.
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