民主党力挺独立候选人挑战共和党参议院席位：阿拉斯加、内布拉斯加等州现新打法
据 Politico Playbook 与美联社报道，在今年中期选举的多个共和党占优势州，民主党人正采取一种新打法：不力推本党候选人，转而支持以独立身份参选的挑战者，挑战共和党籍现任参议员。民主党全国委员会及部分华盛顿盟友正低调支持这一策略。
在内布拉斯加州，独立候选人、前工会领袖 Dan Osborn 挑战共和党参议员 Pete Ricketts。Osborn 2024 年以独立身份参选时仅以约 7 个百分点落败于共和党参议员 Deb Fischer。今年民主党初选胜出者 Cindy Burbank 表示，她参选的主要目标就是确保秋季选票上不出现民主党候选人分流 Osborn 的选票，并计划在初选后退选；州民主党主席 Jane Kleeb 证实了这一安排。
类似情形还出现在爱达荷州：民主党提名人 David Roth 8 月 28 日退出选战，转而让位给独立候选人、前民主党州众议员 Todd Achilles 挑战参议院外交关系委员会主席、共和党参议员 Jim Risch；Roth 表示，党内领袖支持他人令其竞选与筹款难以为继。在阿拉斯加州，无党派挑战者 Bill Hill 正挑战共和党众议员 Nick Begich，并获得总统特朗普公开为共和党候选人站台的背景下展开竞争；南达科他州与蒙大拿州也有独立候选人参选参议员。共和党方面则批评这一做法，称独立标签掩盖了候选人的真实立场；独立候选人的支持者则表示，摆脱两党标签正是其参选的意义。
Democrats Back Independent Candidates Against Republican Senate Incumbents in Alaska, Nebraska and Other Red States
Democratic leaders are pursuing a new strategy in several Republican-leaning states in this year's midterm elections: looking past their own party's nominees and backing independent challengers against Republican Senate incumbents, according to Politico Playbook and Associated Press reporting. The Democratic National Committee and some allies in Washington are quietly supporting the approach.
In Nebraska, independent candidate and former union leader Dan Osborn is challenging Republican Senator Pete Ricketts. Osborn ran as an independent in 2024 and lost to Republican Senator Deb Fischer by about seven percentage points. This year, Democratic primary winner Cindy Burbank said a major priority of her campaign was ensuring no Democrat appeared on the fall ballot to draw support from Osborn, and she planned to withdraw after the primary; state Democratic chair Jane Kleeb confirmed the plan.
A similar realignment unfolded in Idaho, where Democratic nominee David Roth withdrew on August 28, clearing the way for independent Todd Achilles, a former Democratic state representative, to challenge Senator Jim Risch, the Republican chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Roth said party leaders' advocacy for another candidate made campaigning and fundraising extraordinarily difficult. In Alaska, independent challenger Bill Hill is running against Republican Representative Nick Begich, in a state where President Trump has campaigned for the Republican incumbents, and independent Senate candidates are also running in South Dakota and Montana. Republicans have criticized the maneuver, arguing the independent label obscures where the candidates would stand in a closely divided Senate; the independents' supporters counter that independence from both major parties is precisely the point of their candidacies.
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