弱势在任议员表示，他们需要返乡竞选、与选民建立联系，而非困在华盛顿
2026年8月2日 美国东部时间上午8:00 / 福克斯新闻
作者：亚历克斯·米勒 福克斯新闻
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共和党人敲响警钟，称总统唐纳德·特朗普取消八月休会的要求可能会让共和党在中期选举中丢失席位。
随着即将结束的华盛顿“休假”日益临近，特朗普最为重视的立法推动工作仍陷入停滞。他要求共和党人留在美国首都直至法案通过，但政治现实却并非如此。
而此时共和党正迫切希望离开华盛顿特区，在竞选活动中向选民宣传他们的政绩，而非自身的不足。本届选举周期中，共和党面临的风险比民主党更大，有三位弱势在任议员以及其他几位边缘选区议员面临严峻挑战。
共和党议员称特朗普的首要选举优先事项在参议院“已死”，中期选举前共和党内部出现分裂
唐纳德·特朗普总统于2026年7月30日在华盛顿特区西行政大道宣布“自由运输者”倡议。（安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社）
“取消八月休会意味着我们的议员必须外出竞选、联系选民，但有人却意识不到这一点，这就像2020年我们输掉凯利·勒夫勒和戴维·珀杜的席位时，告诉所有人待在家里一样，完全不谙世事，”北卡罗来纳州联邦参议员汤姆·蒂利斯（共和党籍）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“这是同样的思维方式，”他继续说道，“仿佛认为只有一个部门在管理这个国家，但事实并非如此。如果我们不能保住多数席位，人们会后悔的。”
然而，蒂利斯的几位同僚持不同意见，他们希望参议院留任至《拯救美国法案》通过，无论是通过政党一致的预算和解程序，还是通过废除阻挠议事规则。
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特朗普的施压、网络上的时代思潮以及这一局势带来的政治烫手山芋，让在任议员陷入两难境地：要么返乡竞选，要么留在华盛顿推动至今毫无进展的立法。
对许多共和党人来说，他们公开承认这是参议院的票数问题——共和党没有足够票数通过《拯救美国法案》。一些人认为，让参议院留任可能也无法改变反对者的立场。
“如果留任能对投票结果产生影响，我没问题，但我认为不会有任何改变，这是徒劳之举，”得克萨斯州联邦参议员约翰·康恩（共和党籍）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
特朗普怒斥康恩，将司法部长提名之争与激烈的德克萨斯州初选挂钩
共和党联邦参议员约翰·康恩和汤姆·蒂利斯正在阻挠总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的司法部长人选托德·布兰奇。（内森·波斯纳/阿纳多卢通讯社 via 盖蒂图片社；亚伦·施瓦茨/CNP/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社；汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via 盖蒂图片社）
康恩和蒂利斯都将退休——蒂利斯是在通过“宏伟且完美的法案”的动荡时期决定退出的，而康恩则被特朗普背后捅刀，特朗普在激烈的初选中支持得克萨斯州州检察长肯·帕克斯顿击败了他。
但康恩指出，如果他仍在竞选连任，可能会改变主意。
“我不知道结果会怎样，但如果我在竞选连任，我会投票支持留任，”他说。
康恩的观点正是一些弱势共和党议员所秉持的立场。两位处于激烈选战中的共和党议员——俄亥俄州联邦参议员乔恩·赫斯特德（共和党籍）和阿拉斯加州联邦参议员丹·沙利文（共和党籍）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他们一直在积极推动《拯救美国法案》。
不过，沙利文表示，他不想就总统取消休会的要求置评，而赫斯特德则表示，回到俄亥俄州与选民见面总是更可取的做法。
“但我也有在这里的工作，如果工作要求我留下，那我就会留下，”他说。
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其他支持该法案但选情不那么紧张的议员也理解参议院的现实：除非改变一批投反对票的共和党议员的立场，并拉拢几位民主党议员，否则《拯救美国法案》毫无通过可能。
“我认为取消整个休会期会有问题，但如果让我们在这里多待一周或10天，当然没问题。如果我认为这能改变局面，我会待到11月，”堪萨斯州联邦参议员罗杰·马歇尔（共和党籍）告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
但他也承认，空手而归同样是个问题。
“如果我们不尽最大努力推动这项选民身份证法案通过，选民基础会感到愤怒，”马歇尔说。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责美国参议院事务的撰稿人。
Trump demand puts vulnerable Republicans in impossible spot ahead of midterms
Vulnerable incumbents say they need to be home campaigning and connecting with constituents, not stuck in DC
August 2, 2026 8:00am EDT / Fox News
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Republicans are sounding the alarm that President Donald Trump’s demand to cancel August recess could cost the GOP seats in the midterms.
As the upcoming jailbreak from Washington, D.C., fast approaches, Trump’s most-prized legislative push remains stalled. He wants Republicans to stay put until it’s finished, but the political reality says otherwise.
And it comes as Republicans are desperate to get out of the Beltway and sell their accomplishments, rather than their shortcomings, to voters on the campaign trail. The GOP has more to lose than Democrats this cycle, too, with three vulnerable incumbents and a handful of others on the periphery.
REPUBLICAN SAYS TRUMP’S TOP ELECTION PRIORITY ‘DEAD’ IN SENATE AS GOP FRACTURES AHEAD OF MIDTERMS
President Donald Trump announces the Freedom Haulers initiative on West Executive Avenue in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2026.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“Canceling August recess, where we have to have our members out campaigning and connecting with their voters, and people not understanding that, is about as tone-deaf as telling everybody to stay home in 2020 when we lost Kelly Loefler and David Purdue,” Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital.
“It’s the same sort of thought process,” he continued. “It’s thinking that one branch runs this country and it doesn’t. If we don’t keep majorities, people are gonna regret it.”
Several of Tillis’ colleagues, however, disagree, and want the Senate to stay put until the SAVE America Act passes, be it through the party-line budget reconciliation process or by nuking the filibuster.
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Trump’s pressure, the online zeitgeist and the political hot potato of the situation have put incumbents in a tough spot: go home and admit defeat, or stay put and push legislation that so far has not gone anywhere.
For many Republicans, they openly acknowledge that it’s a math problem in the Senate — the GOP does not have the votes to pass the SAVE America Act. Some argue that keeping the Senate in town likely wouldn’t change the minds of those who oppose it.
“If it would make a difference in the outcome, I’m fine with that, but it won’t make a difference, which I don’t believe it will, that it’s an act of futility,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital.
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Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are obstructing President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Todd Blanche.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Both Cornyn and Tillis are retiring — Tillis opted to get out during the tumultuous period that was passing the “big, beautiful bill,” and Cornyn was kneecapped by Trump, who backed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over him in a grueling primary battle.
But Cornyn noted that if he was still running for office, he might have a change of heart.
“I don’t know how that would come out, but if I was running for re-election, I would vote to stay,” he said.
Cornyn’s point is the line that some vulnerable Republicans are toeing. Two Republicans running in tight races, Sens. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, told Fox News Digital that they have been voraciously pushing for the SAVE America Act.
But, Sullivan said that he didn’t want to comment on the president’s push to cancel recess, while Husted said it was always preferable to be back in Ohio with his constituents.
“But I also have a job here, and if the job requires me to be here, then I’ll be here,” he said.
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Others in less tight races who support the legislation still understand the reality in the upper chamber: without changing the minds of a cohort of Republicans who have voted against it and flipping several Democrats, the SAVE America Act is going nowhere.
“I think to cancel the whole recess would be a problem, but I think to keep us up here another week or 10 days, certainly, I’m willing to do it. I’d stay here till November if I thought it would change things,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital.
But he acknowledged that coming home empty-handed was a problem, too.
“The base would be mad if we don’t make the best effort possible to get this voter ID across the finish line,” Marshall said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.