Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Saturday for midterm rallies in Cleveland and Detroit, setting up a rare split screen with President Trump, who staged a rally in the evening in a small city in central Georgia.
上周六，前总统奥巴马重返竞选活动，在克利夫兰和底特律参加中期选举集会，与当晚在佐治亚州中部一座小城举办造势集会的特朗普总统形成了罕见的同期对比。
Their pitches offered a contrast in style and substance. Mr. Obama prosecuted his case against the Trump administration in two tightly scripted, roughly 40-minute bursts on Saturday.
两人的演讲在风格和内容上呈现鲜明对比。周六，通过两段精心编排、时长约40分钟的发言，奥巴马对特朗普政府展开了抨击。
Mr. Trump, who has been crisscrossing the country for weeks in a midterm push to save his party’s congressional majorities, defended his administration in a rambling and at times profane hour-and-a-half speech Saturday night.
特朗普数周来一直在全国各地奔波，为保住本党国会多数席位展开中期选举冲刺。周六晚间，他在长达一个半小时的演讲中为自己的政府辩护，言辞漫无边际，时而夹杂粗俗之语。
Here’s how Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama made their arguments 10 days before the election.
以下是特朗普和奥巴马在选举前10天各自阐述观点的情况。
On the Iran war
关于伊朗战争
Mr. Obama assailed the Iran war, which has driven up prices, describing it as an “unnecessary war” that “nobody asked for.”
奥巴马抨击伊朗战争推高了物价，称这是一场“不必要的战争”，“没有人要求打这场战争”。
“Our allies and our bases have been attacked,” Mr. Obama said in Cleveland. “Americans have been killed. Hundreds of Americans have been wounded. We have run down our stock of missiles. And Iran now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz, where oil goes through to the world market.”
“我们的盟友和基地遭到攻击，”奥巴马在克利夫兰说。“美国人被杀。数百名美国人受伤。我们的导弹库存已经耗尽。而伊朗现在对霍尔木兹海峡拥有否决权，石油经那里进入世界市场。”
He said a central goal of the war — preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon — had been better addressed through the nuclear deal he reached with Iran in 2015. Mr. Trump pulled out of that agreement during his first term.
他说，这场战争的核心目标之一——阻止伊朗获得核武器——本已通过他2015年与伊朗达成的核协议得到了更好的解决。特朗普在其第一任期内退出了该协议。
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Mr. Trump said the unpopular war had been a success and had cowed Iran. He said Mr. Obama’s deal had been a “road to a nuclear weapon for Iran.”
特朗普称这场不受欢迎的战争取得了成功，并震慑了伊朗。他说奥巴马的协议是“通往伊朗核武器的道路”。
“We defeated them militarily, financially and otherwise,” Mr. Trump said of Iran, though the war continues and administration officials are concerned that Iran is in the advanced stages of plans for attacks against U.S. officials.
“我们在军事上、财政上和其他方面击败了他们，”特朗普谈到伊朗时说，尽管战争仍在继续，而且政府官员担心伊朗针对美国官员的袭击计划已进入后期阶段。
“We have to make sure that they never, ever have a nuclear weapon, and we’ll do that very easily,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “Our country is getting stronger and stronger all the time.”
“我们必须确保他们永远、永远无法拥有核武器，我们做到这一点将轻而易举，”特朗普说，他还说，“我们的国家每时每刻都在变得越来越强大。”
On the economy
关于经济
Mr. Trump spent much of his speech warning about a risk he said Democrats would pose to the economy. A vote for Republicans, Mr. Trump said, was a vote for “more money in your pockets,” lower taxes and a “booming” economy.
特朗普在演讲中花费了大量篇幅警告民主党将给经济带来的风险。特朗普说，投票给共和党就是投票支持“你口袋里有更多的钱”、更低的税收和“蓬勃发展”的经济。
If the Democrats win back Congress, he claimed, the country will fall into a “1929-style economic depression the likes of which you have never seen before.”
他声称，如果民主党赢回国会，国家将陷入“你从未见过的1929年式经济萧条”。
“They want all the things financially bad,” Mr. Trump said, citing transgender athletes in women’s sports, without explaining how that could affect the economy.
“他们想要所有经济上糟糕的东西，”特朗普说，并提到女子体育中的跨性别运动员，但没有解释这如何影响经济。
Mr. Trump also reminded voters of his promise to send $5,000 to every American adult if Republicans win in November. He argued that his sweeping tariff policies had “made us rich” and led to companies “pouring in” to the United States.
特朗普还提醒选民，他承诺如果共和党在11月获胜，将向每个美国成年人发放5000美元。他辩称，他实施的全面关税政策“让我们富了起来”，并导致公司“涌入”美国。
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Mr. Obama said that presidents did not have “control over the entire economy.” But in this case the “administration’s actions are directly responsible for rising costs,” he said, citing the Iran war.
奥巴马说，总统并不“控制整个经济”。但他表示，在这种情况下，“政府的行动直接导致了成本上升”，并提到伊朗战争。
“This is the reason why the price of oil is up — nobody disputes that,” Mr. Obama said. “This is the reason the price of diesel is up. This is the reason why the price of just about everything is up.”
“这就是油价上涨的原因——没有人否认这一点，”奥巴马说。“这就是柴油价格上涨的原因。这就是几乎所有东西价格上涨的原因。”
Mr. Obama ridiculed Mr. Trump’s tariff regimen, saying it, too, had contributed to rising prices. He mocked Mr. Trump for picking a trade fight with “that well-known evil empire Canada.” And he suggested that Republicans should have passed legislation responding to inflation.
奥巴马嘲笑特朗普的关税制度，称它也导致了物价上涨。他嘲讽特朗普与“那个众所周知的邪恶帝国加拿大”打贸易战。他还表示，共和党本应通过立法应对通胀。
“The only bill they passed of any significance in the last two years was a trillion-dollar tax break that mostly benefited the richest Americans,” Mr. Obama said.
“过去两年里，他们通过的唯一一项有意义的法案，是一项主要惠及最富有美国人的万亿美元减税政策，”奥巴马说。
On what’s ‘radical’
关于何为“激进”
Mr. Obama pushed back on a core Republican argument going into November: that Democratic candidates are extreme.
奥巴马反驳了共和党在11月大选前提出的一项核心论点：民主党候选人是极端的。
Mr. Obama, chuckling, said in Detroit that Republicans’ ads were aimed at convincing voters that his party was made up of “radicals or communists or jihadists or the woke police that will come arrest you and force-feed you tofu.”
奥巴马在底特律笑着表示，共和党的广告旨在让选民相信，民主党由“激进分子、共产主义者、圣战分子，或者会来逮捕你并强迫你吃豆腐的觉醒警察”组成。
“We are not going to fall for that okey-doke,” Mr. Obama said.
“我们不会上那个当，”奥巴马说。
Mr. Obama was joining Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, who is in a close race and whose platform calls for universal health care. Mr. Obama objected to Republican efforts to cast Dr. El-Sayed as extreme.
奥巴马当时正与密歇根州进步派民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士一同出席活动。埃尔-赛义德目前选情胶着，其竞选纲领呼吁全民医保。奥巴马反对共和党试图把埃尔-赛义德描绘成极端分子。
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“Wanting everybody to have health care — how is that radical?” Mr. Obama said. “Wanting everybody to have a place to live that they can afford — how is that radical?”
“希望每个人都有医保——这怎么能算激进？”奥巴马说。“希望每个人都有负担得起的住处——这怎么能算激进？”
Around the same time, Mr. Trump was arguing in Perry, Ga., that his party was running against “radical-left” candidates. He claimed that Democrats wanted to “loot your wealth” and “annihilate your borders.”
大约同一时间，特朗普在佐治亚州佩里辩称，他的政党正在与“激进左翼”候选人竞争。他声称民主党想“掠夺你们的财富”并“摧毁你们的边界”。
He charged that Democrats were running as communists, though no Democrat in any midterm race of note identifies as a communist. (Some Democratic candidates, mostly concentrated in deep-blue districts, identify as democratic socialists.)
他指控民主党人以共产主义者身份竞选，尽管中期选举中，没有任何值得注意的民主党候选人自认是共产主义者。（一些民主党候选人自认是民主社会主义者，主要集中在深蓝选区。）
“Less than two years ago, the radical-left Democrats handed us the dark age — it was a dark age — of America,” Mr. Trump said in Georgia, where he described the incumbent Democratic senator on the ballot, Jon Ossoff, as a “radical-left senator.”
“不到两年前，激进左翼民主党人把美国带入了黑暗时代——那确实是美国的黑暗时代，”特朗普在佐治亚州说。他把此次参选的现任民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫描述为“激进左翼参议员”。
Mr. Ossoff, a mainstream Democrat, has held a durable lead in the polls over his Republican challenger, Representative Mike Collins.
奥索夫是主流民主党人，在民调中对共和党挑战者、众议员迈克·柯林斯一直保持领先。
On challenges facing America
关于美国面临的挑战
Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama offered different takes on the most pressing issues facing the country.
特朗普和奥巴马对美国面临的最紧迫问题提出了不同看法。
Mr. Trump said the “hardest job” was addressing the threat posed by immigration. He cast economic challenges as comparatively minor, and said deporting immigrants was “nasty work.”
特朗普说，“最艰难的工作”是应对移民构成的威胁。他把经济挑战说成相对次要，并称驱逐移民是“麻烦的工作”。
“Some of them are so dangerous, Rick, we don’t want to get them out, we have to put them in jail,” Mr. Trump said, speaking from the stage to Rick Jackson, the Republican nominee for Georgia governor.
“他们中有些人太危险了，里克，我们不能把他们赶出去，我们必须把他们关进监狱，”特朗普在台上对佐治亚州州长共和党候选人里克·杰克逊说。
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Mr. Obama said in Detroit that “we do need to make sure our border is orderly and secure,” but suggested that Mr. Trump had reached beyond his 2024 campaign promises by “sending masked agents running through our streets.”
奥巴马在底特律说，“我们确实需要确保边境有序和安全”， 但他表示，特朗普“派遣蒙面特工在街头巡逻”的做法已经超出了其2024年竞选承诺的范畴。
And he questioned whether Mr. Trump was “thinking deeply” about the challenges facing Americans. As he closed his speech, he reflected on artificial intelligence.
他质疑特朗普是否在“深入思考”美国人面临的挑战。在结束演讲时，他谈到人工智能。
“I know it’s been hyped, but there is a real technology that’s coming,” Mr. Obama said. “It is going to change a lot.”
“我知道它被炒作了，但一项真正的技术正在到来，”奥巴马说。“它将改变很多。”
He added: “These are serious times. This is not the time for reality TV.”
他补充说：“这是严肃的时代。现在不是搞真人秀的时候。”
(Both presidents are set to return to the trail before the Nov. 3 election.)
（两位总统都将在11月3日选举前重返竞选活动。）
