共和党赢得众议院控制权，巩固特朗普领导下的共和党三连胜
【中美创新时报2024 年 11 月 13 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）共和党保护了脆弱的现任议员，并在竞争激烈的选区击败了民主党人，将统一的国会交给了当选总统来实施他的议程。《纽约时报》记者Catie Edmondson在华盛顿作了如下报道。
共和党在周三巩固了对众议院的控制，他们在亚利桑那州和加利福尼亚州保住了少数关键席位，并在关键战场选区击败了现任民主党人，将华盛顿的执政三连胜交给了共和党，以实施当选总统唐纳德·J·特朗普的议程。
目前还不清楚共和党在众议院的多数优势会有多大，初步计票结果显示，他们很可能再次以微弱优势领先于民主党。西部一些关键竞选的选票仍在统计中，其他几场竞选结果仍难分胜负。
周三，佛罗里达州众议员马特·盖茨辞职，此前当选总统唐纳德·J·特朗普表示将提名他为司法部长，这让共和党的选举变得更加复杂。但民主党领袖、纽约州众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯已经承认，他的政党未能如愿。
即使是微弱的多数，对共和党来说也是一种非凡的胜利和转变，就在一年前，他们还担心选民会因为他们领导下的众议院混乱和失调而惩罚他们。相反，共和党领导人表示，他们打算利用在华盛顿的权力控制，开始迅速通过立法，包括一揽子减税计划、放松对国内石油和天然气生产的监管以及严格的边境安全措施。
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周二在国会大厦前的新闻发布会上表示：“众议院和参议院的共和党人有权力。这是一场全国性的决定性胜利。”
“我们将在这里高举美国优先的旗帜，”他后来表示。
随着红色浪潮席卷全国，选民对现任拜登-哈里斯政府表示不满，许多众议院民主党人和该党的候选人最终无法超越副总统卡马拉·哈里斯的表现。
共和党在宾夕法尼亚州遭遇了最惨痛的失败，共和党击败了自 2013 年以来一直担任斯克兰顿席位的众议员马特·卡特赖特。2018 年翻转利哈伊谷选区的众议员苏珊·怀尔德也输了。
众议院中一些民主党现任议员的表现超出预期，在对特朗普有利的地区保住了自己的席位，并阻止了共和党取得他们原本预期的胜利。
纽约的民主党人赢回了三个让他们苦不堪言的席位，击败了哈德逊河谷、长岛和锡拉丘兹的众议员马克·莫利纳罗、安东尼·德斯波西托和布兰登·威廉姆斯。
但在全国范围内，民主党挑战者在党内官员认为可以获胜的竞选中失利。内布拉斯加州众议员唐·培根是一位资深共和党人，他克服了自由派倾向的奥马哈选区的政治阻力，赢得了第四个任期。爱荷华州和亚利桑那州的现任议员在激烈的竞选中击败了对手，民主党距离夺回控制权所需的 218 个席位还差得远。
题图：从左至右，佛罗里达州众议员拜伦·唐纳德兹、前总统唐纳德·J·特朗普、俄亥俄州参议员 JD Vance 和议长迈克·约翰逊在 7 月的共和党全国代表大会上。图片来源：Kenny Holston/纽约时报
附原英文报道：
Republicans Win Control of House, Cementing a G.O.P. Trifecta Under Trump
The party protected vulnerable incumbents and picked off Democrats in competitive districts, handing the president-elect a unified Congress to enact his agenda.
By Catie Edmondson
Reporting from Washington
Nov. 13, 2024
From left, Representative Byron Donalds of Florida, former President Donald J. Trump, Senator JD Vance of Ohio and Speaker Mike Johnson at the Republican National Convention in July.Credit…Kenny Holston/The New York Times
Republicans cemented their control of the House on Wednesday after holding onto a handful of critical seats in Arizona and California and defeating incumbent Democrats in key battleground districts, handing the G.O.P. a governing trifecta in Washington to enact President-elect Donald J. Trump’s agenda.
It was not yet clear what the margin of the Republican majority in the House would be, and preliminary counts pointed to the likelihood that they would again hold only a slight edge over Democrats. Votes were still being counted in some critical contests in the West, and a few other races were still too close to call.
The resignation of Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida on Wednesday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said he would nominate him for attorney general further complicated the math for the G.O.P. But Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, had already conceded that his party had fallen short.
Even a slim majority amounted to an extraordinary triumph and turnabout for Republicans, who just a year ago fretted that voters would punish them for the chaos and dysfunction gripping the House under their leadership. Instead, G.O.P. leaders have said they intend to use their chokehold on power in Washington to begin quickly passing legislation, including a sweeping package of tax cuts, loosening of regulations on domestic oil and gas production, and stringent border security measures.
“Republicans in the House and Senate have a mandate,” Speaker Mike Johnson said at a news conference in front of the Capitol on Tuesday. “It was a decisive win across the nation.”
“We’re going to raise an America First banner above this place,” he said later.
As a red wave swept across the nation, with voters registering their unhappiness with the current Biden-Harris administration, many House Democrats and the party’s candidates were ultimately unable to outrun Vice President Kamala Harris’s performance.
Nowhere did the party face more of a drubbing than in Pennsylvania, where Republicans defeated Representative Matt Cartwright, who has held his Scranton-based seat since 2013. Representative Susan Wild, who flipped her Lehigh Valley district in 2018, also lost.
A number of Democratic incumbents in the House outperformed expectations, clinging to their seats in Trump-friendly terrain and denying Republicans victories they had expected to notch.
And Democrats in New York won back three seats that had tormented them, ousting Representatives Marc Molinaro, Anthony D’Esposito, and Brandon Williams in the Hudson Valley, Long Island and Syracuse.
But all across the nation, Democratic challengers fell short in races that party operatives believed they could win. Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, a veteran Republican, defied the political headwinds in his liberal-leaning Omaha district to win a fourth term. And incumbents facing competitive races in Iowa and Arizona fended off their opponents, leaving Democrats short of the 218 seats they needed to win back control.
Maya C. Miller contributed reporting.
