We were part of a team of eight DW journalists who traveled from California to Florida hoping to understand why so many in this country see this election as the most important in their lifetime.

我們是由8名DW記者組成的團隊中的一員，他們從加州到佛羅里達州，希望瞭解為什麼這個國家有這麼多的人將這次選舉視為他們一生中最重要的選舉。

Side note.

附註：

We just tested negative for coronavirus.

我們剛剛檢測出冠狀病毒的陰性。

So in a 7000 miles on the road, how did this all begin?

那麼在7000裡的路上，這一切是如何開始的呢？

Well, we started our road trip on the West Coast.

好了，我們開始了西海岸的公路旅行。

This guy was great because of the wildfires.

這傢伙因為野火的緣故，很厲害。

Way went to visit a family, a little farm on.

路去拜訪一戶人家，一個小農場在。

They had lost everything way, got married here on the farm, actually, just under that oak tree over there.

他們失去了一切，在農場這裡結婚，實際上，就在那邊的橡樹下。

And you know, so not having that not having pictures of our friends that z hard eso while we're in California?

你知道，所以沒有，沒有照片 我們的朋友，Z硬埃索，而我們在加州？

Actually, Trump made a surprise visit to California because he hadn't really been talking about the wildfires until then.

其實，特朗普突然造訪加州，是因為在此之前，他並沒有真正談及野火。

Yeah, it seemed that he wanted to show people in California that he actually cared about it.

是的，他似乎想讓加州的人知道他真的很關心這個問題。

It was really fascinating how excited they were here.

他們在這裡的興奮程度真的很吸引人。

Oh, my God!

哦，我的天！

Way got to get another four more.

辦法得到了另外四個更多。

Okay, Another four more keep America great, but it wasn't just Trump supporters showed up.

好吧，又有四個人保持美國的偉大，但這不僅僅是特朗普的支持者出現了。

It was also there were protests there.

那裡也有抗議活動。

Well, remember that that was a long and taking Okay, Donald Trump.

好吧，記住，這是一個漫長的，採取 好吧，唐納德・特朗普。

Donald Trump.

唐納德-特朗普

At a certain point, there was rumors going around that an accident happened.

一時間，到處都在傳言說發生了意外。

Somebody had driven their car into protestors.

有人開車撞上了示威者。

What seemed kind of crazy to me is that this Onley made the local news that cars driving into protesters has become so commonplace in this country that it doesn't even resonate anymore.

在我看來有點瘋狂的是，這個昂利在當地上了新聞，汽車開到抗議者身上，在這個國家已經司空見慣了，甚至已經沒有共鳴了。

Do you guys need anything right now?

你們現在需要什麼嗎？

Do you need anything?

你需要什麼嗎？

Okay.

好吧，我知道了

So then we left California and we went to Mormon country, right to Utah.

所以我們離開了加州，去了摩門教的國家，就去了猶他州。

I mean, many people know it because it's stunningly beautiful.

我的意思是，很多人知道它是因為它美得驚人。

These red rocks, these arches.

這些紅石，這些拱門。

But it's also Mormon country Onda.

但這也是摩門教的國家昂達。

We met this woman.

我們遇到了這個女人。

She showed us her church.

她帶我們參觀了她的教堂。

She really walked us through her fears.

她真的陪我們走過了她的恐懼。

So if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would become president and vice president, what would this mean for your country?

如果喬-拜登和卡馬拉-哈里斯成為總統和副總統 這對你們國家意味著什麼？

I think that it would mean a big downfall.

我想，這將意味著一個大的下場。

We would have a civil war again.

我們會再次發生內戰。

There would be a civil war here, I believe if they were to become because there's a lot of Americans that don't want to be a new world order.

如果他們成為的話，我相信這裡會有一場內戰，因為有很多美國人不希望成為一個新的世界秩序。

They don't want to be part of the New World Order.

他們不想成為世界新秩序的一部分。

She's really, really preparing for the worst.

她真的，真的在做最壞的打算。

This is just my basic survival school.

這只是我的基本生存學校。

Forgot a raincoat.

忘記了一件雨衣。

I got some, um, keep peace and stuff to help keep me warm.

我有一些，嗯，保持和平之類的東西來幫助我取暖。

And the Mormons obviously are preppers in that regard.

而摩門教徒顯然是這方面的預備者。

Anyhow, they're always prepared, you know, to be ready to go.

總之，他們總是準備好了，你知道的，隨時準備出發。

But now, with this election coming, and with the fear that this country might turn into chaos, they're gonna extra prepared.

但現在，隨著這次大選的到來，由於擔心這個國家會陷入混亂，他們會做額外的準備。

Obviously, more of them than usual are getting weapons as well.

顯然，他們中也有比平時更多的人得到了武器。

I think that's my gun.

我想那是我的槍

Oh, and I wouldn't be able to hurt nobody with I wouldn't I'd be like, Stay away.

哦，我也不能傷害任何人，我不會... ...我會像，遠離。

Don't make me hurt myself, because I Because I can't hurt people.

不要讓我傷害自己，因為我因為我不能傷害別人。

But I wouldn't wanna hurt myself either.

但我也不想傷害自己。

So but yeah, so it's I don't even Yeah, it's not loaded bullets.

所以，但是，是的，所以它是我甚至不 是的，它不是裝滿子彈。

Or somewhere in here, I'd have to hit somebody with it before I even get hurt with that.

或者在這裡的某個地方，我得先用它打人，然後再用它受傷。

Shoot him.

殺了他

So yeah, So immigration is one of the most important topic in this election.

所以啊，所以移民是這次選舉中最重要的話題之一。

So you have those who are afraid that mawr immigrants would take their jobs away.

所以，你有那些人害怕莫爾移民會搶走他們的工作。

They want Donald Trump to build this wall.

他們希望唐納德-特朗普修建這堵牆。

They want him to protect their jobs and then you have the others.

他們想讓他保護自己的工作，然後你還有其他人。

They think America, the United States are is rich enough really to support those in neat.

他們認為美國，美國都是富得流油，真的足以支撐那些在整齊。

And that's what we experience everywhere.

而這也是我們處處經歷的。

Pretty went Thio, Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado And there we met a man from West Africa who is just waiting to be deported.

漂亮的去了Thio，科羅拉多州，Pueblo，科羅拉多州。 在那裡，我們遇到了一個來自西非的人，他正在等待被驅逐出境。

In some ways, I feel like I'm an outsider, even though I've been here for 20 years, you know, I've assimilated to the culture language, um, customs, you name it.

在某些方面，我覺得我是一個局外人， 即使我已經在這裡20年， 你知道，我已經同化的文化 語言，嗯，習俗，你的名字。

But however, because there isn't that green card or citizenship kind of passport that says I am an American, I feel like I'm outside.

但是，但是，因為沒有那種綠卡或公民身份的護照，說我是美國人，所以我覺得自己是在外面。

I'm other instead of being an American.

我是別人而不是美國人。

So normally you would assume that Trump supporters don't take care of African refugee from West Africa without any legal papers.

所以通常你會認為特朗普的支持者不會照顧來自西非的沒有任何合法證件的非洲難民。

But they did for us, you know, these are adopted son basically and way what?

但他們為我們做了，你知道，這些都是養子基本上和方式是什麼？

What would How would we feel if that happened to Brandon or Sean are physiologic sons?

如果這種情況發生在布蘭登或肖恩是生理期的兒子身上，我們會有什麼感受？

And if you want to see that report by our colleague Oliver Salad, you can find the link in the description under this video.

如果你想看我們的同事Oliver Salad的報告，你可以在這個視頻下面的描述中找到鏈接。

Okay, so this, uh, election campaign is also shaped by images of burning houses and burning cars.

好吧，所以這個，呃，選舉活動也是由燃燒的房子和燃燒的汽車的影像形成的。

Kenosha is one of those places way drove there just a month after the riots have happened.

基諾沙是其中一個地方，在暴動發生後一個月就開車去了那裡。

It was pretty moving to see these thes burned cars on to imagine what this place went through.

看到這些被燒燬的汽車上，想象一下這個地方經歷了什麼，挺感動的。

Trump points to that town and says, Look what happens when you have, uh, Democrats in charge.

特朗普指著那個小鎮說，你看，民主黨人當家會發生什麼。

And then Democrats point to that town and they say yes.

然後民主黨人就指著那個小鎮說是。

Houses burned and cars burned.

房屋被燒，汽車被燒。

And there was a lot of destruction from black lives matter, protesters and from Antifa.

有很多的破壞 從黑人生命問題，抗議者和反法。

But two people died there.

但那裡死了兩個人。

Yeah, and the two people who died there were protesters allegedly killed by a young man with a rifle from the right wing.

是啊，死在那裡的兩個人是抗議者，據說是被一個年輕男子用右翼的步槍殺死的。

So you can really see how people can take a city like Kenosha and turned it into two different stories.

所以，你真的可以看到人們是如何把基諾沙這樣的城市，變成兩個不同的故事。

I think what we experience really from this side to the other side is that there's hardly any place where people come together and share their arguments.

我覺得我們從這邊到那邊真正經歷的是，幾乎沒有任何一個地方可以讓大家聚在一起，分享他們的論點。

And I think Kenosha would be a good place so well in the election really started at this point in Ohio Way went there to the little town of Springfield, which was really fairly rich some years ago.

而且我認為基諾沙會是一個很好的地方，所以好在選舉真正開始在俄亥俄州的這一點方式去那裡的小城鎮春田，這是真的相當豐富的一些年前。

But now it's really decimated because of the industrial changes which voted for Donald Trump in 2016.

但現在因為2016年投給唐納德-特朗普的產業變革，真的是衰敗了。

And we talked to the head of the Democratic local Democratic Party there, Andi asked him, You know why things have changed and what he expects What they were hearing and what actually has happened is two different things they were hearing.

我們和當地民主黨的負責人談了談，安迪問他，你知道為什麼事情發生了變化，他期望的是什麼，他們聽到的和實際發生的是兩件不同的事情，他們聽到的是什麼。

Donald Trump is gonna do all these magnificent thing he's gonna take care of.

唐納德-特朗普會做所有這些宏偉的事情，他要照顧。

You know he's going to help the American workers on that.

你知道他要幫助美國工人在這上面。

Just that promise has not been helped.

只是這個承諾一直沒有得到幫助。

You never know until the balance accounting what I hope.

你永遠不知道，直到平衡會計我希望。

I hope Joe Biden becomes our next president.

我希望喬-拜登成為我們的下一任總統。

That's what I would help.

這就是我會幫助的。

But there's one voting bloc in the United States that really doesn't seem like it's going to change its mind, and that is why we went to Indiana, right?

但美國有一個投票集團，似乎真的不會改變主意，這就是我們去印第安納州的原因吧？

We went there to meet evangelicals.

我們去那裡見福音派的人。

It's up to 25% off those Americans who vote, and their main issue is abortion, their anti abortion.

這是高達25％的折扣那些美國人誰投票，他們的主要問題是墮胎，他們的反墮胎。

That's the topic.

這就是主題。

They kind of come together behind.

他們算是後面一起走過來的。

They don't really care so much about Donald Trump's personal life.

他們並不那麼關心唐納德-特朗普的個人生活。

They don't like it that he cusses and swears.

他們不喜歡他罵人和說髒話。

But they say for them hey is the right president because he is fighting with them against abortion.

但他們說，對他們來說，嘿是正確的總統，因為他正和他們一起反對墮胎。

There's a lot about Donald Trump that I don't like that I don't agree with, um, but in the areas that he does promote truth and justice, I pray that God would bless his administration.

唐納德-特朗普有很多我不喜歡的地方，我不同意，嗯，但在他確實促進真理和正義的領域，我祈禱上帝會保佑他的政府。

But this, of course, only applies toe white evangelicals, because if you look at black evangelicals, picture is completely different.

但這當然只適用於白人福音派，因為如果你看黑人福音派，情況就完全不同了。

And that's why we went down south to Georgia to talk to black voters, right?

這就是為什麼我們要南下喬治亞州去找黑人選民談話，對吧？

That's when early voting began in Georgia.

這時，喬治亞州的提前投票開始了。

Yeah, way talked to many people who explain to us how difficult it is in this year's election, uh, to find places to vote, especially for African Americans.

是的，我們和很多人談過，他們向我們解釋說，在今年的選舉中，找到投票的地方有多難，特別是對非裔美國人來說。

Way saw massive lion's at some of these polling places in Georgia on the first day, some people waited up to 12 hours to cast their ballot, so this was early voting people who are going there weeks ahead of the election.

方式看到大規模的獅子的在一些這些投票地點在格魯吉亞的第一天，一些人等待長達12小時投他們的選票，所以這是提前投票的人誰是去那裡選舉前幾周。

One thing that really moved me was this moment when a woman who had been standing in line for hours and it was really hot.

真正讓我感動的是這一刻，一個女人排了幾個小時的隊，真的很熱。

She collapsed.

她倒下了。

Mhm.

嗯

A lot of a sudden she gets up and a poll worker escorted her into the building.

突然間，她起身，一名投票工作人員護送她進入大樓。

She refused to go home, but she wanted to vote and he said, Well, you've waited long enough.

她拒絕回家，但她想投票，他說，好吧，你已經等得夠久了。

I'm gonna take you inside.

我帶你進去

Well, many say this is the most important election in their lifetime, and I I agree.

嗯，很多人說這是他們一生中最重要的選舉，我我同意。

I mean, I was really stunned about the patients off the people.

我的意思是，我真的是驚呆了病人關人。

I mean, they stood there in the rain and the heat.

我的意思是，他們站在那裡 在雨中和熱。

That shows you how important this year's election is and how much it means for many, many Americans to be able to vote way kind of went off to another planet to Florida thing theme Most important swing state.

這說明了今年的選舉有多重要，對很多很多美國人來說有多重要，能夠投票的方式種去了另一個星球佛羅里達州的事情主題最重要的搖擺州。

If Donald Trump doesn't win Florida, he probably has lost the elections.

如果唐納德-特朗普沒有贏得佛羅里達州，他可能已經輸掉了選舉。

So we went to this little place.

所以我們去了這個小地方。

Kamala Harris, the vice presidential candidate from the Democrats, were holding a small event aunt outside things place there were Trump supporters these up, uh, that your training?

民主黨的副總統候選人卡馬拉-哈里斯，正在舉行一個小型的活動姑姑外面的東西地方有特朗普的支持者這些了，呃，那你的訓練？

Hi.

嗨，我的天

Try toe talk to them and try to understand why they hate Kamala Harris so much.

試著和他們談談，試著理解他們為什麼這麼恨卡馬拉-哈里斯。

High man Kamel Harris is right there.

高手卡梅爾-哈里斯就在那裡。

What would you tell her if you would be able to speak with her?

如果你能和她說話，你會怎麼跟她說？

She's a communist.

她是個共產黨員。

She's garbage.

她是垃圾。

She's locked so many black people up.

她把那麼多黑人關起來了。

She's actually a monster, just like Biden.

她其實是個怪物，就像拜登一樣。

She's a very ignorant woman.

她是個很無知的女人。

But I have to say, as a reporter, I kind of failed way said we were on the road to the White House.

但我不得不說，作為一個記者，我有點失敗的方式說，我們是在通往白宮的路上。

But you can't get that close to the White House and this'll fences telling you so Just put it up for election night.

但你不能離白宮那麼近，這個柵欄會告訴你的，就在選舉夜把它掛起來吧。

So I think that pretty much tells the story of this, this United States of America.

所以我認為這幾乎講述了這個故事，這個美利堅合眾國。