当阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德的竞选团队宣布巴拉克·奥巴马本月稍后将与他一起走上竞选之路时，媒体和知名网络声音迅速敲响警钟——原来这位密歇根州参议员候选人曾对这位前总统发表过强烈批评。
When Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign announced that Barack Obama would join him on the campaign trail later this month, media outlets and prominent online voices quickly sounded the alarm—the Michigan Senate candidate, it turned out, had voiced strong criticisms of the former president.
周三，追踪埃尔-赛义德从奥巴马2012年连任时至2020年总统竞选期间的言论，重点聚焦在2012年的一篇文章中，埃尔-赛义德写道，前总统在第一任期内未兑现“希望和实质性变革”的承诺，反而“延续战争，侵犯我们的公民自由，遣返的移民人数比以往任何总统都多”。“他的失败清单”，埃尔-赛义德写道，“仍在继续”。
On Wednesday, traced El-Sayed’s comments from the time of Obama’s 2012 reelection through the 2020 presidential campaign, zeroing in on a 2012 piece where El-Sayed wrote that the former president did not deliver on the promise of “hope and substantial change” during his first term but instead “perpetuated war, violated our civil liberties, deported more people from our shores than any other president before him.”“The list of his failures,”
并不是说人们认为埃尔-赛义德的批评是错误的，而是他们指出这些批评的确存在。
l-Sayed wrote,“goes on.”
新消息：CNN审查的录像和采访多次显示，阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德——即将与巴拉克·奥巴马一起竞选——称奥巴马的总统任期是一次失败，八年后国家并未变得更好。
It’s not that people are calling El-Sayed’s criticisms wrong.
2026年10月7日，埃尔-赛义德在接受CNN采访时赞扬奥巴马：“他改变了像我这样、名字像我这样的人所能达到的可能性。”“尽管他已经做了很多，但仍有大量工作要做，”他补充道。“这正是下一代在他的灵感和领导下接手的地方。”他将所谓的担忧扩展到其他民主党人身上，再次指出埃尔-赛义德于周四与前副总统卡马拉·哈里斯一起竞选，尽管埃尔-赛义德在2024年公开支持“未决定”运动，呼吁民主党人在抗议美国对以色列在加沙持续种族灭绝的军事援助时对乔·拜登的初选投票进行抵制。
They’re pointing out that they exist. NEW: Footage and interviews reviewed by CNN repeatedly show Abdul El-Sayed — who is set to campaign with Barack Obama — calling Obama’s presidency a failure and that the country was no better off after eight years of his presidency. October 7, 2026 In a statement to CNN, El-Sayed praised Obama: “He changed what was possible for someone like me, with a name like mine.”“Despite all he did, there remains so much left to do,” he added.
该运动在全国大选前未对哈里斯进行背书，而是敦促支持者“投票反对”特朗普——但埃尔-赛义德实际上在一次显著的突破中支持了她。
“That’s where the next generation, inspired by him and his leadership, picks up.” extended the supposed concerns to other Democrats, pointing again to El-Sayed campaigning with former Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, despite El-Sayed publicly endorsing Uncommitted movement in 2024, supporting calls for Democrats to withhold their primary votes from Joe Biden in protest of US military aid to Israel in its ongoing genocide in Gaza While the movement declined to endorse Harris ahead of the national election—instead urging supporters to “vote against” Trump—El-Sayed actually did endorse her in a marked break.
埃尔-赛义德由此被暗示，其实并非他民主党同僚们那么好的朋友。然而，对奥巴马的激烈批评，却是他与党内两大派系共有的特征。此前，无数民主党进步派人士，无论是从这位前总统的左翼还是右翼出发，都曾在私下和公开场合批评过奥巴马，但事后仍支持他（而对于当时确实担任过国家职务的一些人来说，他们甚至是在任期间就支持了他）。
El-Sayed, the implication runs, is not such a good friend to his fellow Democrats after all. But intense critiques of Obama are something he has in common with both wings of his party. Countless Democrats progressives have previously criticized Obama, in private and in public, from the former president’s left and right flanks, and supported him afterward (or, for some of those who actually held national office at the time, during).
在政党政治中，只要处理得当，政治联盟就能跨越意识形态和政策分歧。这不过是一种策略性的竞选手段——而奥巴马仍计划于10月与埃尔-赛义德并肩开展这种竞选活动。
In party politics, done right, political alliances cut across ideological and policy disagreements. That’s just strategic campaigning—which Obama still plans to do alongside El-Sayed in October.