PBS高端访谈:爱荷华州将成为第一个进行选举的大州（在线收听）

JUDY WOODRUFF: With just three weeks until Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, an increasingly close race there is exposing new rifts among the candidates. Lisa Desjardins is back with this report.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT), Presidential Candidate: When millions stand up and fight back, there is nothing that will stop us.

LISA DESJARDINS: The Democratic presidential field, still numbering in the double digits, narrowed today by one.

SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ), Presidential Candidate: Today, I am suspending my campaign for president.

LISA DESJARDINS: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker ended a campaign that had pushed for national unity, just as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren abandoned their year-long nonaggression pact.

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D-MA), Presidential Candidate: I was disappointed to hear that Bernie is sending his volunteers out to trash me. I hope Bernie reconsiders and turns his campaign in a different direction.

LISA DESJARDINS: That was Warren responding to a leaked Sanders campaign script distributed to volunteers and published by Politico. It attacks Warren by charging that she appeals only to highly educated, more affluent voters. And it says that she's bringing no new bases into the Democratic Party.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Presidential Candidate: Elizabeth Warren is a very good friend of mine.

LISA DESJARDINS: Sanders denied a role in the role in the new offensive strategy and distanced himself from the campaign volunteers involved.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: People sometimes say things that they shouldn't. You have heard me give many speeches. Have I ever said one negative word about Elizabeth Warren?

LISA DESJARDINS: The tension comes as new polling shows a razor-thin four-way fight in Iowa. Friday's Des Moines Register/CNN poll had Sanders narrowly in the lead, earning 20 percent support from likely Democratic caucus-goers, with Warren statistically tied with him. Following close behind, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden at 15. Biden topped today's Monmouth University poll with 24 percent, with Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg tied in a close second.

PETE BUTTIGIEG (D), Presidential Candidate: Thank you!

LISA DESJARDINS: Buttigieg also spent the past few days in Iowa, with a Des Moines touting the endorsement of a prominent Iowa congressman. But the candidate also faced some controversy.

PETE BUTTIGIEG: I think your facts are a little wrong, so I'd love a chance to talk with you about it.

LISA DESJARDINS: The former mayor confronted protesters in the crowd challenging his record on race, including on policing and housing for African-American communities.

PETE BUTTIGIEG: Can we agree that we can talk about this respectfully?

WOMAN: We have been trying to talk to you since South Bend, Pete.

LISA DESJARDINS: With a number of candidates camping out in Iowa, others are putting their marks on the states that follow.

ANDREW YANG (D), Presidential Candidate: Hello, Dover, New Hampshire! How are you?

LISA DESJARDINS: Entrepreneur Andrew Yang hoping for a surge in New Hampshire.

ANDREW YANG: Screw Iowa. No, I'm kidding.

ANDREW YANG: Kidding!

LISA DESJARDINS: Biden looking to cement his lead in Nevada and court Hispanic voters there.

JOSEPH BIDEN (D), Presidential Candidate: Now, I can assure you of one thing. My Cabinet, if I'm elected, and my administration will look like America. It will look like America.

LISA DESJARDINS: And former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg campaigning with television personality Judge Judy in Texas. Bloomberg has staked his nomination chances on the Lone Star State and others which vote in March.

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, Presidential Candidate: Judge, I am so honored to have you here. I'd love to tell you that I watch you all day every day, but I have a few other things to do.

LISA DESJARDINS: A dozen candidates still crisscrossing the country, but just six of them will face off tomorrow night in Des Moines in the seventh Democratic presidential debate.

For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Lisa Desjardins.

朱迪·伍德拉夫：还有3周，爱荷华州就要成为美国第一个进行总统选举投票的州了，各候选人之间票数焦灼，时有摩擦。下面请听丽莎发回的报道。

参议员伯尼·桑德斯，总统候选人：当数百万人站起来来反抗的时候，就没有什么能阻挡我们。

丽莎：民主党总统竞选人数依然是两位数，而今天变成了一位数。

参议员科里·布克，总统候选人：今天，我暂停竞选总统了。

丽莎：新泽西州参议员科里·布克终结了自己的竞选之路。他竞选主打的是国家团结这个主题。与此同时，佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯和马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦也背弃了长达1年的互不侵犯条约。

参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦，总统候选人：我很失望地听说，伯尼已经派出志愿者来诋毁我了。我希望伯尼重新考虑并改变自己的竞选方向。

丽莎：上面这番话是沃伦回应伯尼一份泄露了的竞选文案，这文案已经分发给了志愿者，还公布在了Politico上。文案内容攻击沃伦，说沃伦只将注意力放在受过高等教育的富人。文案中还说沃伦没有给民主党带来新的选民力量。

参议员伯尼·桑德斯，总统候选人：伊丽莎白·沃伦是我的好朋友。

丽莎：伯尼否认自己在新攻略里扮演的角色，把自己跟参加竞选活动的志愿者撇清关系。

参议员伯尼·桑德斯：大家有时候会说不应该说的话。你们都听过我那么多次演讲了，我哪次演讲里说过关于沃伦的一句坏话了？

丽莎：伯尼和沃伦剑拔弩张之际，新的民调显示，爱荷华州有4位候选人票数十分接近。周五，得梅因纪事报/美国有线电视新闻网的民调显示，伯尼以微弱优势领先，他获得了民主党选民20%的支持，而沃伦则紧追不舍。紧随其后的是印第安纳州前南本德市市长皮特和前副总统乔·拜登（15%）。拜登在得梅因纪事报的民调中获得24%的支持，而伯尼、沃伦、皮特则并列第二。

皮特，总统候选人：谢谢大家！

丽莎：皮特过去几天都在爱荷华州，得梅因纪事报则大吹特吹皮特是卓越的国会议员。但与此同时，皮特还面临着一些争议：

皮特：我认为你们眼中的事实是错误的，我希望有机会能跟你们聊一下。

丽莎：有一些抗议者提到皮特有不良的种族言论，包括在维护治安和非裔美籍社群的住房问题。

皮特：答应我，咱们以互相尊重的态度来聊聊这个事儿，肿么样？

女：您在南本德市当市长的时候，我们就一直试着跟你聊聊呢。

丽莎：有一些候选人在爱荷华州开展竞选活动，还有一些候选人将注意力放在了接下来的州上。

安德鲁·杨，总统候选人：嗨，新罕布什尔州多佛市的朋友们！你们好吗！

丽莎：企业家安德鲁·杨希望自己的票数在新罕布什尔州能有所增长。

安德鲁·杨：爱荷华，去它的吧。不不不，我刚开玩笑呢。

安德鲁·杨：不不不，没开玩笑！

丽莎：拜登想要巩固自己在内华达州和西班牙裔选民中的优势。

乔·拜登，总统候选人：现在，我能向大家保证一件事儿——我的内阁成员们，如果我当选，我的政府看起来会像美国政府，像真正的美国政府。

丽莎：前纽约市长迈克尔·布隆伯格在德克萨斯州跟电视明星朱迪法官一起开展竞选活动。迈克尔·布隆伯格提高了自己3月份在德克萨斯州以及其他州获得提名的机会。

迈克尔·布隆伯格，总统候选人：法官大人们，我很荣幸大家能来到这里。我向告诉大家，我每天都关注着你们，但我还有其他一些事情要做。

丽莎：一些候选人依然在在全国各地奔走，但仅有6人将参加明晚民主党候选人在得梅因的第7次辩论。

感谢收听丽莎发回的《新闻一小时》。