在激烈的初选结束很久之后，埃尔-赛义德仍在努力团结密歇根州民主党人。这位进步派参议院候选人向犹太选民伸出橄榄枝，并与卡玛拉·哈里斯一起竞选以吸引黑人选民。民调显示，这可能正在奏效。
Long After Divisive Primary, El-Sayed Is Still Working to Unite Michigan Democrats The progressive Senate candidate is offering olive branches to Jewish voters and campaigning with Kamala Harris to attract Black voters. Polling shows it may be working.
阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德博士是密歇根州美国参议院民主党候选人，最近他发现自己陷入了一个再熟悉不过的困境：试图吸引该州分裂的民主党基础中的一部分人，同时避免疏远另一部分人。
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, recently found himself in an all-too-familiar predicament: Attempting to appeal to one section of the state’s divided Democratic base while avoiding alienating another.
这一次，他正在争取黑人选民的支持，而黑人选民今年对极左候选人表现出了怀疑态度——正如埃尔-赛义德博士本人在密歇根州民主党初选中亲身经历的那样。上周与前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯一同出席活动之前，他在一次新闻发布会上被记者问及，此举是否可能适得其反，激怒阿拉伯裔美国选民——其中许多人在2024年没有投票给哈里斯女士，因为他们反对拜登政府在加沙战争问题上的立场。
This time, he was courting Black voters, who have shown skepticism for far-left candidates this year — as Dr. El-Sayed himself experienced in the Michigan Democratic primary. Before appearing with former Vice President Kamala Harris at an event last week, he grew testy when a reporter asked him at a news conference if the boost might backfire with Arab American voters, many of whom did not vote for Ms. Harris in 2024 because they objected to the Biden administration’s stance on the war in Gaza.
几天后，在底特律举行的一场全国有色人种协进会晚宴上，他对满屋子的黑人选民说，记者们就他的外交政策观点提问，感觉就像一次“未经同意的结肠镜检查”。这种紧张局面凸显了埃尔-赛义德博士——一位前公共卫生官员——在试图成为首位在参议院任职的美国穆斯林，并保住一个对决定参议院控制权至关重要的民主党席位时所面临的艰巨任务。
Days later, at an N.A.A.C.P. dinner in Detroit, he told a roomful of Black voters that answering questions from reporters about his foreign policy views felt like a “non-consensual colonoscopy.”The tension highlighted the difficult task Dr. El-Sayed, a former public health official, faces as he tries to become the first Muslim-American to serve in the Senate — and hold a crucial Democratic seat that will help determine control of the chamber.
埃尔-赛义德博士在今年夏天一场激烈的初选中以微弱优势击败了温和派民主党众议员海莉·史蒂文斯。但在此过程中，他因对以色列的批评而疏远了犹太选民。他在年长黑人选民中输给了史蒂文斯女士。他的左翼政策观点也赶走了独立选民。
Dr. El-Sayed narrowly won a bruising primary over the summer against Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate Democrat. But along the way, he alienated Jewish voters with his criticism of Israel. He lost older Black voters to Ms. Stevens. And he drove off independents with his left-wing policy views.
如今，他正致力于修复关系，并说服党内持谨慎态度的建制派相信他有能力赢得大选。对于一个早期政治形象——2018年以左翼鼓动者身份竞选州长，并在2020年总统选举中担任参议员伯尼·桑德斯的积极代言人——是好斗的局外人来说，这算是一种立场的转变。
Now, he is working to mend fences and convince the party’s wary establishment that he is capable of winning a general election. It’s something of an about-face for a candidate whose earlier political identity — he ran for governor in 2018 as a left-wing agitator, and was a vocal surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2020 presidential election — was combative outsider.