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This election season, voters across the country are weighing a rematch between former president Donald Trump and president Joe Biden.
在这个选举季，全国各地的选民都在前总统唐纳德·特朗普和总统乔·拜登之间徘徊。
Pennsylvania's eighth district has a unique blend of urban centers and rural areas.
宾夕法尼亚州第八区地理位置独特，城乡融合。
The district also has seen voting preferences change over the last decade.
在过去十年中，该选区的投票意向也发生了变化。
Some areas are now trending more democratic, while others are leaning conservative.
一些地区现在趋向于民主，而另一些地区则趋于保守。
I was in the union all my life, I was a Democrat, but they've changed tremendously. They used to help people. Now it doesn't seem that way, you know.
我一生都在工会里，我是民主党人，但民主党已经发生了巨大的变化。他们过去常常帮助人民。现在看来并非如此。
The platform of the Republican party was more in line with my young beliefs.
共和党的政纲更符合我年轻时的信念。
When Trump won, I really looked back into, you know, who I really am and realized that the Republican party of 2016 was not the same party as when I was young.
当特朗普获胜时，我回顾了自己的真实身份，并意识到2016年的共和党与我年轻时的共和党不再是同一个政党。
I could say that at one point I was all for Republican but my views have changed. It seems to me as though, you know, you have... well, I'm all Democrat or I'm all Republican.
我一度完全支持共和党，但我的观点已经改变。好像我要么是民主党人，要么是共和党人。
And I think it's so black and white. And I think we as people truly do live in the gray.
这太过非黑即白。但在我看来，人类生活在灰色之中。
Former president Barack Obama won Pennsylvania's 8th district in 2008 and 2012. But in 2016 Trump was able to capture the voters in the area.
前总统巴拉克·奥巴马曾于2008年和2012年赢得宾夕法尼亚州第8选区的选票。但在2016年，特朗普却能够赢得该地区的选民。
In 2020 Biden won some of them back, but ever since 2016 Democrats have been struggling to regain the union base.
2020 年，拜登获得了该地区部分选民的支持，但自2016年以来，民主党一直在努力夺回工会的支持。
The cultural battle is decidedly in favor of Republican politics right now here.
目前，该地区的文化斗争显然有利于共和党。
And I think that's part of the reason why you saw people shift right is that you have people who are union voters who voted for the Democratic party because of unions.
我认为，人们政治上右倾的部分原因在于，有些选民来自工会，因为工会而投票给民主党。
And they look around and they go. Well, the Democratic party doesn't speak for my cultural values and the Republican Party does. So then I'm going to transition my vote.
他们环顾四周然后离开。民主党不代表我的文化价值观，而共和党代表。那么我将改变我的投票。
I think the quick version is these were voters that were probably already leaning away from the Democratic party.
我认为更有可能是因为这些选民已经不支持民主党。
And then president Trump gave them a reason to leave the Democratic party once and for all.
然后特朗普总统给了他们一个彻底脱离民主党的理由。
