距离中期选举只有两天了，弗吉尼亚州州长格伦·扬金(Glenn Youngkin)认为，选民将向总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)发出“警钟”，选举共和党人重新获得对众议院和参议院的完全控制。
扬金是在回答美国广播公司新闻首席华盛顿记者乔纳森·卡尔的独家采访时问他:“首先，如果共和党人接管众议院和参议院，他们如何与拜登总统合作?”
“我认为周二的声明会非常清楚。我认为，众议院的多数席位将比人们几个月前想象的要多，”扬金回答说，并补充说，他预计参议院也将明显占多数。
“我希望拜登总统看到美国人周二会对他说什么，那就是‘我们不高兴’，我们需要一个不同的议程。”
扬金一直与几位共和党人一起参加州长、众议院和参议院的竞选。
早在10月份，扬金在摇摆州亚利桑那州做了几次停留，最引人注目的是为极右翼州长候选人卡莉·莱克拉票。
“Kari Lake谈了很多关于2020年选举的事情，谎称选举被操纵、被盗，”Karl在采访中对Youngkin说，问道，“你不同意这一点，是吗?”
“我说过拜登总统是我们的总统。他被选为我们的总统，”杨金回答说。当卡尔接着问拜登的胜利是否合法时，杨金说是合法的，但转而指出总统“做得不好”。
自拜登总统上任以来，共和党当选官员公开呼吁弹劾他，推出了十多项针对他和他的内阁成员的决议。当卡尔提出弹劾的可能性，并询问这样做是否是一个错误时，杨金说，他坚信“当我们的国会行使其监督职能时，我们的民主会更好。”
卡尔迫切要求得到答案，问他是否觉得弹劾拜登是选民的想法。“因为我已经听了很多次了，”他说。
杨金拒绝猜测他的政党成员会采取什么样的行动，他认为自己是一名州长，而不是国会议员，有责任“为弗吉尼亚人民服务”。
扬金说:“但是共和党州长已经证明，他们在疫情领导下做得更好。”。“经济复苏、安全社区、学校教育，正如我所说，我认为每个州都应该有一个共和党州长。”
2022年11月2日，弗吉尼亚州州长格伦·扬金在南卡罗来纳州苏福尔斯为州长克里斯蒂·诺姆举行的竞选集会上发表讲话。
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这最新预测538显示，在11月8日的36个州长选举中，共和党候选人在超过一半的竞选中受到青睐。共和党人也很有可能赢得内华达州和威斯康星州这两个主要的战场州，以及俄勒冈州，该州自1982年以来从未选举过共和党州长。
大约一半的美国人在最近的一次调查中说ABC新闻/益普索民意调查经济或通货膨胀是他们投票给国会的最重要的问题。根据民意调查，近四分之三的共和党人指出这两个经济问题是优先事项，而只有29%的民主党人表示相同。
卡尔询问了他对唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)可能竞选连任的看法，因为与这位前总统关系密切的顾问表示，他可能准备再次竞选。
“任何人现在都应该关注的唯一时间线是11月8日，”杨金回答说，并补充说他目前“不支持任何人”。
他也拒绝表明他是否会发起自己的总统竞选。
“这是11月8日的时刻。现实是，我认为那些谈论11月8号以后事情的人忽略了今天的优先事项。
Republicans will take 'full control' of Congress: Glenn Youngkin on midterms in 'This Week' interview
With just two days until the midterm elections, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin believes that voters will send a "wake-up call" to President Joe Biden, electing Republicans to regain full control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Youngkin was responding to ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl, who asked him in an exclusive interview: "First order of business, if Republicans take over the House and Senate, how do they work with President Biden?"
"I think the statement on Tuesday is going to be pretty clear. And I think there will be a larger majority in the House than people may have thought a few months ago," Youngkin answered, adding that he predicts there will be a clear majority in the Senate as well.
"I hope that President Biden sees what Americans are going to say to him on Tuesday, which is 'we're not happy' and we need a different agenda."
Youngkin has been out on the campaign trail alongside several Republicans running in gubernatorial, House and Senate races.
Back in October, Youngkin made several stops in the swing state of Arizona, most notably to stump for far-right gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
"Kari Lake talks a heck of a lot about the 2020 election, falsely saying it was rigged, stolen," Karl said to Youngkin in the interview, asking, "You don't agree with that, do you?"
"I've said that President Biden is our president. He was elected our president," Youngkin answered. When Karl followed up asking if Biden's win was legitimate, Youngkin said it was, but shifted to pointing out that the president has "done a bad job."
Since President Biden took office, various GOP elected officials have publicly called for his impeachment, introducing more than a dozen resolutions against him and members of his cabinet. As Karl raised the possibility of impeachment, asking if it would be a mistake to do so, Youngkin said he believes strongly "that our democracy's better when our Congress exercises its oversight functions."
Karl pressed for an answer, asking if he felt an impeachment of Biden was what voters have in mind. "Because I've been hearing that a lot," he said.
Refusing to speculate on what kind of action fellow members of his party would take, Youngkin argued that he was a governor, not a member of Congress, with a duty to "deliver for Virginians."
"But what Republican governors have demonstrated is they have led so much better coming out of this pandemic," Youngkin stated. "Economic recovery, safe communities, delivering in schools, and as I've said, I think every state deserves a Republican governor."
Thelatest forecastsfrom FiveThirtyEight show that of the 36 governorships up for election Nov. 8, the Republican candidate is favored in over half of those races. Republicans also have a good chance of picking up Nevada and Wisconsin, two major battleground states, and also Oregon, which hasn't elected a GOP governor since 1982.
About half of Americans said in the most recentABC News/Ipsos pollthat either the economy or inflation is the most important issue in their vote for Congress. Nearly three out of four Republicans point to the two economic concerns as a priority, while only 29% of Democrats say the same, per the poll.
Karl asked for his thoughts on a potential re-election bid from Donald Trump as advisers close to the former president have signaled that he may be preparing to run again.
"The only timeline that anybody should be focusing on right now is the one that leads through November 8th," Youngkin replied, adding that he is "not supporting anybody" at this time.
He also declined to indicate if he will mount a presidential bid of his own.
"This is a November 8th moment. And the reality is, folks that are talking about things beyond November 8th I think are missing the priority of today's moment," he said.
