密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德表示，他的民主党同僚需要在即将到来的中期选举中“以巨大优势获胜”，以确保结果“毫无疑问”。他告诉NBC新闻的《与 prensa 会面》节目：“唐纳德·特朗普已经威胁要重演他在2020年所做的事情，即否认选举结果。”该采访于周日播出。NBC新闻周六询问他，无论谁赢得中期选举，他是否会接受结果，特朗普说：“当然我会接受。但我们不希望出现作弊。”
Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed said his fellow Democrats need to “win by massive numbers” in the upcoming midterm elections so the result “is unquestionable.”“Donald Trump has already threatened to do what he did in 2020, which is deny the outcomes of an election,” El-Sayed told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” in an interview that aired Sunday. Asked by NBC News on Saturday whether he would accept the results of the midterm elections no matter who wins, Trump said, “Of course I will. But we don’t want cheating.”
埃尔-赛义德的共和党对手、前众议员迈克·罗杰斯也曾否认2020年大选结果，埃尔-赛义德在接受主持人克里斯汀·韦尔克的采访时透露了这一点。他说：“我正在竞争的那位候选人，他暗示自己在2020年其实并没有输。”他还说：“他谈论的是一辆神秘的货车， prétend 它在底特律出现，车上装满了选票，好像他其实没有输一样。”
El-Sayed’s Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, has also denied 2020 election results, El-Sayed told moderator Kristen Welker. “The guy I’m running against, he insinuates that he didn’t actually lose in 2020,” he said. “He talks about this mythical van that showed up in Detroit with a bunch of votes, as if he didn’t lose.”
韦尔克问他，如果选举结果非常接近，他认为特朗普和罗杰斯是否会质疑他的竞选结果，埃尔-赛义德说：“我担心唐纳德·特朗普和迈克·罗杰斯并不致力于维护我们民主制度的根基。”乔·拜登赢得2020年总统大选后，特朗普曾将矛头指向密歇根州，声称存在选举欺诈，但最终被法官驳回，法官称这些指控“只不过是猜测和臆断”。
Asked by Welker about whether he thinks Trump and Rogers would call his race into question if the results are close, El-Sayed said, “I am concerned that Donald Trump and Mike Rogers are not committed to the institution of our democracy.”After Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Trump targeted Michigan with election fraud claims that were eventually shot down by a judge, who called them “nothing but speculation and conjecture.”
密歇根州也是少数几个州之一，2020年特朗普的支持者曾试图提交一份所谓的“假选民”名单给选举人团，以虚假宣称特朗普赢得了选举。该所谓阴谋涉及15人被起诉，但后来他们的案件被驳回。今年早些时候，在一系列关于该州选民名单的升级调查中，特朗普政府要求韦恩县——即底特律所在地——向联邦政府提交其2024年总统大选的所有选票。
Michigan was also among a handful of states where Trump supporters in 2020 sought to submit a slate of so-called fake electors to the Electoral College to falsely declare that Trump won. Fifteen people were charged in the alleged scheme, but their cases were later dismissed. Earlier this year, in a series of escalating inquiries about the state’s voter rolls, the Trump administration demanded that Wayne County, home to Detroit, give the federal government all of its ballots from the 2024 presidential election.
在周五录制的《与 prensa 会面》采访中，埃尔-赛义德表示，他有信心通过竞选中的经济议题吸引前特朗普选民的支持。
In the “Meet the Press interview,” which was taped on Friday, El-Sayed said he’s confident he can win over former Trump voters with his campaign’s economic focus.
这包括通过“全民医保”让医疗更易获得，并与企业利益作斗争。“无论我走到哪里，总有人走过来说，‘看，我投了特朗普两次、三次，现在我要投你。’我问为什么。他们说，‘是因为你真的想让我有医保。’我真的想让他们有医保。‘是因为你真的把美国放在第一位。’我真的就是美国第一，”前公共卫生官员埃尔-赛德说。
That includes making healthcare more accessible through “Medicare for All” and fighting corporate interests. “Everywhere I go, I get somebody who comes up and says, ‘Look, I voted for Trump two, three times, and I’m voting for you.’ And I ask why. They say, ‘It’s because you really want me to have healthcare.’ I really want them to have healthcare. ‘It’s because you really are America first.’ I really am America first,” said El-Sayed, a former public health official.
他还希望这些经济信息能引起犹太选民的共鸣，因为他们可能因他对以色列的批评及其言论而对他持怀疑态度。“让我们团结在一起的东西远比分裂我们的东西重要得多，重要得多。我们相信宗教多元主义。我们相信政教分离。我们相信更多人应享有医疗保健。我们相信生殖权利。我们相信唐纳德·特朗普对我们的民主构成生存威胁。我们相信企业不应能够买通政客，”他说。
He also hopes those economic messages resonate with Jewish voters who may otherwise be skeptical of him because of his criticism of Israel and his rhetoric. “The things that unite us are so much bigger than the things that divide us, so much bigger. We believe in religious pluralism. We believe in the separation of church and state. We believe that more people deserve healthcare. We believe in reproductive rights. We believe that Donald Trump is an existential threat on our democracy. We believe that corporations shouldn’t be able to buy politicians,” he said.
埃尔-赛德再次对他在底特律附近一座犹太教堂遭遇的3月汽车冲撞袭击事件的最初反应表示遗憾。当时他谴责了该袭击，但补充说，“受伤的人会伤害他人”，并指出袭击者的一些家庭成员几天前在黎巴嫩的空袭中丧生。“如果我踩到了某人的悲痛，我当然会感到遗憾。我真的希望当时能考虑到别人听到这些话会有什么感受，并三思而后行，”埃尔-赛德对沃尔克尔说。
El-Sayed again expressed regret about his initial reaction to a March vehicle-ramming attack on a synagogue near Detroit. He condemned the attack at the time but added that “hurt people hurt people,” noting that some of the attacker’s family members had died days earlier in airstrikes in Lebanon. “If I step on somebody’s grief, of course I regret that. And I really wish I’d thought about how somebody would have felt hearing that and thought twice about making those comments,” El-Sayed told Welker.
“我对犹太人安全的承诺，就像我对自己孩子的承诺一样。”他补充道。“我们需要能够知道，我们可以去学校，可以去礼拜场所，而且不会有人袭击我们。”支持两党亲以色列候选人的美国以色列公共事务委员会本周通过选民邮件，针对埃尔-赛德对该袭击事件的最初言论进行了定点打击。
“My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to my own kids,” he added. “And we need to be able to know that we can go to our schools, that we can go to our places of worship, and that nobody is going to attack.”The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which supports pro-Israel candidates from both parties, targeted El-Sayed’s initial comments on the attack in mailers sent to voters this week.
一个名为“Together for Michigan”的超级政治行动委员会本周也开始播放围绕这些言论的广告。在一则广告中，一位妇女表示，她的儿子在袭击当天就在犹太会堂里，她告诉观众，埃尔-赛德“给了一个想要谋杀儿童的人一个借口。我是一名终身民主党人，但这次选举，我将投票给迈克·罗杰斯。”随着中期选举的最后冲刺展开，韦尔克询问埃尔-赛德他计划与前总统贝拉克·奥巴马一起竞选的安排。
A super PAC called “Together for Michigan” also began airing ads this week centered on the remarks. In one ad, a woman says her son was in the synagogue on the day of the attack, telling viewers that El-Sayed “gave an excuse to someone who wanted to murder children. I’m a lifelong Democrat, but this election, I’m voting for Mike Rogers.”With the final push to the midterms underway, Welker asked El-Sayed about his plans to campaign with former President Barack Obama.
在2012年《赫芬顿邮报》的一篇观点文章中，埃尔-赛德写道：“奥巴马不是正确的选择。他只是不是错误的那个。这位领导人发动了战争，侵犯了我们的公民自由，驱逐出境的人数比他之前的任何总统都多，而他的失败清单还在继续。”周五，埃尔-赛德表示，时间的推移改变了他对奥巴马的看法。“我想想奥巴马总统八年的领导，然后把它和我们过去十二年所经历的进行比较。你回过头来说，‘伙计，那是一位真正有能力的领袖，他以一种对人的信念和罕见的优雅来领导，即使是对他持不同意见的人也一样，’”埃尔-赛德说。他补充说，他把奥巴马视为“一位导师”，而伟大的导师“会让你成长”。
In a 2012 HuffPost opinion piece, El-Sayed wrote that “Obama was not the right choice. He just wasn’t the wrong one. This leader has perpetrated war, violated our civil liberties, deported more people from our shores than any other president before him, and the list of his failures goes on.”On Friday, El-Sayed said that time has changed his perspective on Obama. “I think about eight years of President Obama’s leadership and you compare that to the 12 years we’ve lived since. You look back and say, ‘Man, that was a really capable leader, who led with a kind of belief in people and uncommon grace, even for people who disagreed with him,’” El-Sayed said. He added that he considers Obama a “mentor” and that great mentors “let you grow up.”