美国参议院多数党领袖麦康奈尔就大选首次发表讲话

翻译by繁迎陌上美国

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以下内容根据麦康奈尔讲话视频的记录翻译成稿，可能会有些细微差错。

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上周创纪录的美国选民行使了前辈们历尽风险传承给我们的投票权。今天早上我想花几分钟时间谈一谈上周我们所看到的情况，目前的现状，和我们的国家从此将往何处去。

我想从一开始就特别指出上周我们忽略的一个事实 – 各种迹象显示， 2020年大选没有受到意图明确的外来干扰。没有任何迹象显示我们的外来对手被允许破坏我们程序的可靠性。

网络安全和基础设施安全管理局局长说，“我们没有证据表明任何外来对手有能力更改票数统计或阻止美国人投票。”

国家安全局和网络司令部负责人保罗·纳卡松将军在周二晚间报告说，“我们针对对手采取的行动保证了他们无法干扰我们的选举。”

本届美国政府和参议院花了四年的时间为第一线的各州和地方选举机构提供支持，提供新的工具，信息共享伙伴关系，前所未有的协作，投入数亿美元的新的资金，应对俄罗斯这样的不良行为者的干扰所带来的惨痛后果。

外来干涉之类的报告的绝迹是明确的认可，对我们两党工作的明确认可。它把华盛顿的一些政客花了四年时间传播的所有令人尴尬的说辞关在了门外。

太多的声音试图贬低我们取得的进展，怂恿美国人放弃信心，污蔑所有反对极左翼修改选举法提议的人不爱国。可那些推动这类激进思想的人没有什么时候比现在更尴尬的了。他们的提案没有一个成为法律，没有一个。众议院议长没有得到机会亲自改写选举法。但是由于我们中一些人积极推动的明智的两党合作，我们的防御和对策被证明比2016年呈现更好的状态。

这里的核心原则并不复杂。在美利坚合众国，所有合法选票都必须计算在内，任何非法选票都不应计算在内。该过程应该是透明的，或各方都能观察到的。法院在此做出仲裁。

实际上，我们的机构就是为此而建立的。我们拥有考量这类问题的体系。川普总统有百分之百的权利调查违规指控，并权衡他的法律选项。

现在该谈谈我们的现状了。根据初步结果，全国的选民给共和党参议员投的票和连任票的数量已经到了让预测者们震惊的程度。同样，美国人民通过缩减众议院民主党的多数席位和选举更多的共和党人，对左翼中的激进主义和阻挠妨碍作出了回应。

还有总统竞选，显然目前还没有一个州认证他们的选举结果。并且我们至少有一个或两个州已经进入重新计票的程序。我相信，大选结果至少在五个州可能面临法律诉讼。

让我们回到20年前。20年前，佛罗里达州的选票数差距很小，我们看到副总统戈尔采取各种司法手段，到12月才做出败选让步。

更近一点的，2004年在媒体宣称布什总统连任数周之后，民主党人忽然对俄亥俄州的选举人提出了异议，导致了国会程序的延迟。

2016年，司法界在多个州见证了重新计票和法律诉讼。

如果这次发生任何会影响结果的重大违规事件，那么每个美国人都应该想要将其暴露在光天化日之下。如果民主党人确信这些没有发生，他们就没有理由担心任何特别审查。我们拥有考量任何问题所需的工具和机构。总统拥有根据法律调查指控并要求重新计票的权利。

值得注意的是，在这一过程中，宪法并未赋予财大气粗的媒体公司以角色。新闻界的预测和评论并未对包括美国总统在内的任何公民的合法权利拥有否决权。

总而言之，让我们不要进行任何说教，不要说教，不要告诉总统他应该如何立即地愉快地接受选举结果，这些说教竟来自那些刚刚花了四年时间拒绝接受上次选举有效性的同样一些人。而谁又在暗示如果他们再次失败，只有是他们失败，这一次就又不合法了？因此，让我们在这个争端上不要再就这个问题进行说教了。

八月下旬，前国务卿希拉里·克林顿说：“乔·拜登在任何情况下都不应该服输。我觉得这次会耗很久，如果我们分毫必争他就能赢得胜利。”

同一个月，议长佩洛西和民主党领袖都表示“川普总统需要作弊才能获胜。”

十月份，众议院议长佩洛西在贩卖关于邮政服务的阴谋论的时候轻率地说（注意听着），“我毫不怀疑，总统会以说谎，欺骗和偷窃赢得选举。”

这些起哄听起来有任何可信度吗？总统的一些法律诉讼是不是代表着某种危机？

上周此时，美国各城市的小企业主纷纷用木板钉上了他们的窗户，以防万一川普总统胜出，暴民决定重启夏天的骚乱。无需多言，总统的几个法律争讼并不能终结我们的共和国。福特汉姆法学院和纽约法学院的两位教授是这样说的，“几个世纪以来，我们都是要那些对同胞或政府机构不满意的人将争议诉诸法院。”

川普总统的“传统回应是对美国制度的肯定而不是破坏。”这个过程会达成解决方案。我们的系统将解决所有重新计票或诉讼要求。一月份的时候选举胜利者将把自己的手放在圣经上，就像自1793年以来每四年一次发生的那样。

我们可以肯定的是，这一结果会令数千万美国人感到高兴，同时也会使数千万的美国人失望。但是我们也知道， 1月21日我们醒来时仍然有幸生活在世界上有史以来最伟大的国家中，而这主要是因为我们尊重法律规则，信任我们的体制。党派或新闻界的宣判不会凌驾于这些法律规则和我们的体制之上。

另外，过去的几天给我们战胜这种可怕病毒的斗争带来了大好消息。今早一家药物制造商宣布正在进行的试验表明，他们的候选Covid-19疫苗可能有90％以上的有效性。

90％的有效性，这充分证明了美国私营企业及其全球合作伙伴的创新能力，证明了国会和本届政府的历史性努力。我们消除了监管障碍。我们加快了试验速度，为尽快购买和分发疫苗奠定了基础。

上周我们还获悉失业率已降至6.9％，仅在10月份就增加了63万个新职位。还记得吗？春天时许多专家曾估计两位数的失业率会一直折磨我们到今年年底，结果证明消息要好得多。

这是对国会和本届政府在大流行爆发之前花了三年的时间奠定的坚实的经济基础的又一个验证，尤其是对美国人民的坚韧，惊人的坚韧的验证。

要明确的是我们的工作还没有完。太多的美国人仍在经济上遭受苦难，病毒感染在全国各地蔓延。我们不能因为厌烦就放弃戴口罩这样的常识性措施。

参议院在未来几个星期将会非常繁忙。我希望与我们的民主党同事合作，最终将阻挠妨碍搁置一旁，让有针对性的新冠救济计划，我们所需要的有针对性的救济，获得通过。我们还需要资助政府与众议院就国防授权法案达成协议，并确认更多合格的人选。

因此，我欢迎所有同事回到议会厅，并期待今年出色的表现。我们的政府和国家正指望着我们。

讲话link（翻译从27分开始）:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4hdiGU25s&feature=youtu.be

Last week record numbers of Americans exercised the right, which generations risk everything to hand on to us. I want to spend a few minutes this morning talking about what we saw last week, where we are now, and where our great country will go from here.

There is one aspect of last week that has gotten lost that I want to single out right at the start. By every indication, the 2020 election appears to have been free from meaningful foreign interference. There is no suggestion that our foreign adversaries were allowed to undermine the integrity of our process. According to the director of the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Administration, "We have no, no evidence that any foreign adversary was capable of preventing Americans from voting or changing vote tallies."

General Paul Nakasone, the head of NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command, reported Tuesday night, "The actions we've taken against adversaries have ensured they're not going to interfere in our elections."

The Trump administration and the Senate spent four years supporting the state and local election authorities on the front lines, new tools and information sharing partnerships, unprecedented coordination, hundreds of millions in new funding, new painful consequences for bad actors like Russia if they interfere.

The absence of any reports of foreign interference is a ringing endorsement, a ringing endorsement of our bipartisan work. And it slams the door on any embarrassing irresponsible rhetoric that some Washington democrats spent four years broadcasting.

Too many voices tried to talk down our progress, urge Americans actually to not have confidence, and smeared anyone as unpatriotic who opposed far-left proposals to rewrite election laws.

Well Mr. President, the people who pushed this hysteria could not have more egg on their face than they do right now. None of their demands became law. None of them. The speaker of the House did not get to personally rewrite the election law. And yet because of the sensible bipartisan steps that some of us championed our defenses and counter-measures proved to be in radically better shape than back in 2016.

So it's time, let's talk about where we are now. According to preliminary results voters across the nation elected and reelected republican senators to a degree that actually stunned prognosticators. Likewise the American people seem to have reacted to house democrat’s radicalism and obstruction by shrinking the speaker's majority and electing more republicans.

And there is the presidential race. Obviously no states have yet certified their election results. We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount. And I believe that President may have legal challenges underway in at least five states.

The core principle here is not complicated. In the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted. Any illegal ballots must not be counted. The process should be transparent or observable by all sides. And the courts are here to work through concerns. Our institutions are actually built for this. We have the system in place to consider concerns. And President Trump is 100 percent within his right to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options.

Let’s go back to 20 years ago. 20 years ago when Florida came-down to a very thin margin, we saw vice president Gore exhaust the legal system and waited to concede until December. More recently, weeks after the media had called President Bush's re-election in 2004, Democrats baselessly disputed Ohio’s (elections) electors and delayed the process here in Congress. In 2016 election law saw recounts and legal challenges in several states.

If any major irregularities occurred this time of a magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single American should want them to be brought to light. And if Democrats feel confident these have not occurred they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny. We have the tools and institutions we need to address any concerns.

The President has every right to look into allegations and request recounts under the law. And notably the constitution gives no role in this process to wealthy media corporations. The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen including the president of the United States.

Now more broadly, let's not have any lectures, no lectures, about how the President should immediately cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election. And who insinuated that this one would be illegitimate too if they lost again, only if they lost? So let's have no lectures on this subject from that contention.

In late August Secretary Hillary Clinton said, "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances. I think this is going to drag out and he will win it if we don't give an inch." That same month speaker Pelosi and the Democratic leader both stated "President Trump needs to cheat to win." In October, when speaker Pelosi was shopping some conspiracy theory about the postal service, she recklessly said (Listen to this) "I have no doubt that the President will lie, cheat and steal to win the election." Now does this sound like a chorus that has any credibility whatsoever to say a few legal challenges from the President Trump represents some kind of crisis?

At this time last week small business owners in cities across America were boarding up their windows in case President Trump appeared to win and far-left mobs decided to reprise their summer rioting. Sufficient to say a few legal inquiries from the President do not exactly spell the end of the republic.

Here is two professors from Fordham Law School and New York Law School, this is how they put it, "For centuries we've asked people who are unhappy with their fellow citizens or government agencies and institutions, bring their claims to court." President Trump is "a traditional response that affirms rather than undermines American institutions." This process will reach its resolution.

Our system will resolve any recounts or litigation. In January the winner of this election will place his hand on a Bible just like it happened every four years since 1793.

What we know for sure is that the outcome is guaranteed to delight tens of millions of Americans and disappoint tens of millions of Americans. But we also know that we will wake up on January 21st still blessed to live in the greatest nation the world has ever seen. And in no small part that is because we respect the rule of law, we trust our institutions. And neither of those things is outweighed by pronouncements from partisan or the press.

Now on an entirely different matter, Mr. President, the last several days have brought huge good news in our fight to beat the terrible virus. This morning one drug manufacturer announced that ongoing trials suggested their candidate for a covet-19 vaccine may be more than 90 percent effective. 90 percent effective, this is a huge testament to the ingenuity of the American private sector and their global partners and to the historic efforts of Congress and the Trump administration. We flattened regulatory roadblocks. We sped up trials and laid groundwork to buy and distribute a vaccine as fast as possible. Last week we learned the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.9 percent, 6.9 percent with more than 630,000 new jobs added just in the month of October. Now remember back in the springtime many experts estimated we would still be saddled with double-digit joblessness through the end of this year. Turns out the news are whole lot better, another testament to the strong economic foundations that Congress and the Trump administration spent three years laying before the pandemic struck, and most of all to the resilience, the incredible resilience of the American people.

So to be clear our work is not finished. Too many Americans are still suffering economically and infections are climbing across the country. We cannot give up on common sense measures like wearing masks just because we've grown tired of them. The Senate is going to have a busy few weeks. I hope our Democratic colleagues will finally put aside their all or nothing obstruction and let the targeted pandemic relief, targeted pandemic relief is what we need, let it move forward. We will need to fund the government reach agreement with the House on the National Defense Authorization Act and confirm more thoroughly qualified nominees. So I welcome all my colleagues back to the chamber and I look forward to finishing this year strong. Our state and our country are counting on us.