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周四晚间，美国两场竞争最激烈的参议院席位辩论激烈上演，凸显出两场竞选的对抗烈度与人身攻击色彩。
在缅因州，民主党候选人特洛伊·杰克逊在共和党现任议员苏珊·柯林斯暗示一名抗议者是其支持者后，当场要求对方“闭嘴”。而在阿拉斯加州，共和党现任议员丹·沙利文援引玛丽·佩尔托拉虐待员工的指控，质疑民主党对手的“人品”。
“我认为阿拉斯加人已经受够了谎言和不诚实，”佩尔托拉在另一段交锋中说道，“丹，你应该为自己感到羞耻。”
两场竞选相隔数千英里，但都对参议院多数席位的争夺至关重要。温和派共和党人柯林斯正在蓝色州寻求连任，而沙利文则在共和党倾向更明显的阿拉斯加州谋求连任，前联邦众议员佩尔托拉在当地知名度颇高。
两场辩论都凸显出，唐纳德·特朗普总统发动的伊朗战争已成为共和党现任议员的重大政治包袱。沙利文称这场战争“需要尽快结束”，而柯林斯则坚持认为特朗普本应就此次冲突咨询国会意见。
以下是辩论中的关键时刻回顾。
缅因州的第四场也是最后一场参议院辩论随着柯林斯与杰克逊升级攻击而变得火药味十足。
开场几分钟后，一名抗议者就数据中心的影响向柯林斯喊话，迫使辩论短暂中断。
“人工智能数据中心正在破坏我们的气候，正在污染我们的水源，”这名抗议者喊道。
事件结束后，柯林斯称该抗议者“显然是特洛伊的支持者之一”。
“哦，闭嘴，”杰克逊回应道，称自己并不认识这名抗议者。
缅因州辩论中的腐败指控与竞选资金问题
在柯林斯与杰克逊的辩论中，两名候选人都试图将对方描绘成腐败分子，这一核心主题笼罩着这场竞争激烈的竞选以及全国范围内的中期选举。
柯林斯抓住杰克逊未能在周三提交联邦选举委员会（FEC）竞选财务报告一事发难，而杰克逊曾在本周早些时候的辩论中承诺过会按时提交。
杰克逊表示，他错过了自己设定的最后期限，因为处理20万名支持者的竞选捐款花费的时间比预期更长。
“我必须确保这份报告准确无误，这是我第一次提交这类报告，”杰克逊说道。
在整个竞选过程中，杰克逊一直指责柯林斯受其捐助者影响，并吹嘘自己不接受任何企业政治行动委员会（PAC）的捐款。柯林斯周四则扭转攻势，批评杰克逊与其所在政党的参议院竞选委员会联合投放广告，而该委员会确实接受企业捐款，同时还指责杰克逊未披露其捐助者信息。
杰克逊表示，自己无法控制捐助者向参议院竞选委员会的捐款，但承认其竞选团队确实接受了亿万富翁的捐款。
“这是事实。但我从未像柯林斯参议员那样与这些亿万富翁达成任何交易。我不欠他们任何选票。如果我进入美国参议院，我会对这些亿万富翁征税。所以，如果他们想在这场竞选期间给我捐款，我想那是他们的自由，”杰克逊说道。
轮到杰克逊向柯林斯提问时，他将攻击升级为个人层面。在为自己的资历辩护，并反驳柯林斯关于他缺乏合适从政经验的批评时，杰克逊质问道：“你只是看不起我，还是整体上看不起工薪阶层？”
缅因州的共和党人柯林斯继续与特朗普保持距离，她再次就伊朗战争展开批评。
当被问及特朗普决定开战前是否应咨询国会时，柯林斯表示：“绝对应该咨询国会。”
但她补充称，《战争权力决议》赋予特朗普在冲突爆发后最初60天内单方面采取行动的灵活性，这也是她为何直到最初60天结束后才开始投票限制特朗普的战争权力。
沙利文多次不得不应对特朗普使其竞选处境变得艰难的议题。例如，伊朗战争导致阿拉斯加的燃料价格飙升。
沙利文表示，他反对限制特朗普的伊朗战争权力，因为他支持阻止伊朗获得核武器的总体目标。但他称这场战争“需要尽快结束”。
“这场战争带来的能源成本过高，但……降低阿拉斯加能源成本的最佳途径是由阿拉斯加人自己生产更多能源，”沙利文说道，他暗示佩尔托拉不会支持这一主张。
佩尔托拉指责华盛顿政客“发动无休止的战争，推高了我们的各项成本”。她对沙利文将话题转向国内能源生产的做法嗤之以鼻。
“我一直是阿拉斯加钻探的坚定支持者，”她说，“这根本不是问题所在。”
当被问及特朗普购买俄罗斯柴油的计划时，沙利文再次与特朗普划清界限，重申自己的反对立场，称“我完全不认为这是个好主意”，并指出他“刚刚牵头”在国会通过了对俄罗斯的新制裁法案。
沙利文与佩尔托拉就《纽约时报》9月的一篇报道两次发生争执，该报道指控佩尔托拉虐待员工。在这篇报道中，佩尔托拉的竞选团队反驳了她经常虐待员工的说法，但承认她在2023年母亲和丈夫去世后，偶尔会“难以处理自己的悲伤情绪”。
“我不认为这场选举是关于我最糟糕的一天，我发现这些指控中有很多令人担忧，完全是捏造或严重夸大事实，”当被问及《纽约时报》的报道时，佩尔托拉在辩论中说道。
沙利文强调，这篇报道基于对九名前员工和至少20名其他人士的采访。
“这不是玛丽·佩尔托拉最糟糕的一天，”沙利文说，“这是玛丽·佩尔托拉两年来的所作所为，有数十人就此发表了看法。”
沙利文在辩论初期主动提及《纽约时报》的报道，称佩尔托拉“可怕地对待年轻的阿拉斯加人”，这是“性格缺陷”。佩尔托拉称其为“八卦”和“毫无根据的指控”，而沙利文打断了她的发言。
“这是《纽约时报》的报道，”他说，“读读这篇文章。”
Bitter personal attacks and Trump’s war in Iran highlighted in Thursday’s Senate debates in Alaska and Maine
2026-10-16T05:07:23.218Z / CNN
Candidates faced off in heated debates Thursday night in two of the country’s most competitive Senate races, showing how bitter — and personal — each contest has become.
In Maine, Democratic nominee Troy Jackson told GOP Sen. Susan Collins to “shut up” after she suggested a protester was one of his supporters. And in Alaska, Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan questioned Democratic opponent Mary Peltola’s “character” while citing allegations she mistreated staff.
“I think that Alaskans have had it up to here with the lying and dishonesty,” Peltola said during another exchange. “Dan, you should be ashamed of yourself.”
The races are unfolding thousands of miles apart but both critical to the Senate majority. Collins, a moderate Republican, is seeking reelection in a blue state, while Sullivan is running for another term in more GOP-leaning Alaska where Peltola, a former congresswoman, is well-known.
Both debates showed how much of a political liability President Donald Trump’s war in Iran has become for Republican incumbents. Sullivan said it “needs to end soon,” while Collins continued to insist Trump should have consulted Congress on the conflict.
Here’s a look at key moments from the debates.
The fourth and final Senate debate in Maine grew heated as Collins and Jackson sharpened their attacks.
Within minutes, a protester shouted at Collins about the impact of data centers, forcing the debate to a brief halt.
“AI data centers are destroying our climate. They are poisoning our waters,” the protester yelled.
Following the incident, Collins said the protester “is obviously one of Troy’s supporters.”
“Oh, shut up,” Jackson replied, saying he did not know who the person was.
Corruption allegations and campaign financing in Maine
During the Collins-Jackson debate, both candidates tried to portray their opponent as corrupt, a major theme that has loomed over the hotly contested race and the midterms nationally.
Collins cornered Jackson for not sharing his FEC report with her on Wednesday, a promise he made at their debate earlier this week.
Jackson said he missed his self-imposed deadline because it took longer to process the donations from 200,000 people to his campaign than he expected.
“I had to make sure this report was right. It was my first one,” Jackson said.
Throughout the campaign, Jackson has framed Collins as being influenced by her donors and touted that he doesn’t take any corporate PAC money. Collins tried to flip the script on Thursday by dinging Jackson for running joint ads with his party’s Senate campaign arm, which does take money from corporations, and for not disclosing his donors.
Jackson said he did not control their donations to the Senate campaign committee but did concede his campaign has taken money from billionaires.
“That is accurate. But I haven’t made any deals like Senator Collins has with those billionaires. I don’t owe them any votes. I am going to tax those billionaires when I get to the US Senate. So, if they want to give me money during this campaign, I guess that’s up to them,” Jackson said.
When it was Jackson’s turn to ask Collins a question, he got personal. In defending his credentials and pushing back on Collins’ critique that he doesn’t have the right experience, Jackson exclaimed, “Is it just me that you look down on or is it working-class people overall?”
Collins doubled down on her criticism of the Iran war as the Maine Republican continues to distance herself from Trump.
When asked if Congress should have been consulted before Trump decided to go to war, Collins said, “Congress definitely should have been consulted.”
But Collins added that that the War Powers Resolution gave Trump the flexibility to act unilaterally within the first 60 days of the conflict, which she said is why she did not start voting to rein in Trump’s war powers until after those initial 60 days had passed.
Sullivan repeatedly had to grapple with issues where Trump has not made the race easy for him. The war in Iran, for example, has led to especially high fuel costs in Alaska.
Sullivan said he has opposed limiting Trump’s Iran powers because he supports the overall goal of preventing the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But he said the war “needs to end soon.”
“The energy costs from this war are too high, but … the best way to bring down costs with regard to energy in Alaska is to produce more energy by and for Alaskans,” Sullivan said, suggesting Peltola could not be trusted to support that.
Peltola blamed Washington politicians for “waging forever wars that are skyrocketing our costs.” And she scoffed at Sullivan’s pivot to the topic of domestic energy production.
“I have been a strong supporter of drilling in Alaska,” she said. “That is not the issue here.”
Sullivan continued to show daylight with Trump when asked about Trump’s plan to buy Russian diesel. He reiterated his opposition, saying, “I don’t think it’s a good ideal at all,” and noting he “just led the effort” to pass new sanctions on Russia in Congress.
Sullivan and Peltola clashed twice over a September story from The New York Times that alleged staff mistreatment by Peltola. In the article, her campaign pushed back on the suggestion she regularly abused her staff but said she occasionally “struggled to deal with her grief” after her mother and husband died in 2023.
“I do not think that this election is about me on my worst day, and I found so many of these allegations concerning and outright fabrications or mass exaggerations of the truth,” Peltola said at the debate when asked about the Times report.
Sullivan emphasized that the story was based on interviews with nine former staff members and at least 20 other people.
“It’s not Mary Peltola on her worst day,” Sullivan said. “It’s Mary Peltola over the course of a couple years with dozens of people weighing in on this.”
Sullivan brought up the Times story on his own earlier in the debate, saying Peltola has “treated young Alaskans horribly” and that it was “a character flaw.” Peltola called it “gossip” and “unfounded allegations” as Sullivan talked over her.
“It’s the New York Times,” he said. “Read the article.”