密歇根州民主党联邦众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens，民主党-密歇根州）的未婚夫公开表示，他无法投票给密歇根州民主党参议员提名人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-萨耶德（Abdul El-Sayed），因为他相信后者是反犹太主义者。
The fiancé of Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich. has come out and said he cannot vote for Democratic Michigan Sen.-nominee Abdul El-Sayed, believing he is an antisemite.
然而，史蒂文斯依然坚定不移，继续支持这位参议员候选人。杰森·土耳其（Jason Turkish）是一名犹太裔注册民主党人，他告诉《底特律新闻》（The Detroit News），自己将投票给共和党参议员提名人迈克·罗杰斯（Mike Rogers）。周三晚间，他在密歇根州伯明翰的汤森德酒店（Townsend Hotel）出席了由共和党犹太联盟（Republican Jewish Coalition）赞助的罗杰斯竞选活动。
Stevens, though, remains undaunted, backing the candidate for Senate. Jason Turkish, a Jewish registered Democrat, told The Detroit News he will be voting for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, appearing at a Rogers event sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition on Wednesday night at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan.
“我等待、观察并倾听，期待阿卜杜勒能温和下来——但他没有温和，反而升级了，”土耳其在该活动间隙接受记者采访时表示，该采访视频由《底特律新闻》发布。土耳其本人也是一名密歇根州律师。
"I waited, and I watched and and I listened for Abdul to moderate – but he didn't moderate, he escalated," Turkish, a Michigan lawyer himself, told reporters on the sidelines of that event in a video published by The Detroit News.
“随着这场大选竞选的进行，他变得越来越糟、越来越糟、越来越糟。他没有把人们团结在一起，只是让他们进一步、进一步、进一步地分裂。”尽管未婚夫土耳其表达了担忧，史蒂文斯并未退缩，依然支持这位在今夏一场激烈的民主党初选中击败她的民主党人。
"He's gotten worse, and worse and worse as this general election campaign has gone on. Rather than bringing people together he's just driven them further and further apart." Stevens did not back down from her support for the Democrat who defeated her in a closely fought Democratic primary this summer, despite her Turkish's concerns.
“就像全美许多家庭一样，我们家里也意见不一，”史蒂文斯告诉CNN。
"Like a lot of households across America, we're a house divided," Stevens told CNN.
“我依然非常希望我们的民主党提名人、他的名字叫阿卜杜勒、能赢得这场选举，”她说。“赌注太大了。”
"I still very much want our Democratic nominee, his name is Abdul, to win this race," she said. "There's so much on the line."
土耳其表示，埃尔-萨耶德的反以色列言论让他的社区“更不安全”，他担心自己的政党会向激进分子屈服，后者声称加沙地带正在发生“种族灭绝”。
Turkish says El-Sayed's anti-Israel rhetoric makes his community "less safe," fearing his party will bend to radicals claiming that there is a "genocide" in Gaza.
“当他一遍又一遍地说种族灭绝，当他拒绝谴责一则称‘犹太人要为香蕉价格负责’的广告时，他让我的社区变得更不安全，”土耳其说。“他让许多社区都变得更不安全。”埃尔-萨耶德长期批评以色列，称加沙战争为“种族灭绝”。以色列辩称，其正在打击利用加沙平民作为人体盾牌的恐怖分子，并采取措施避免平民伤亡，例如在实施空袭前通知民众并告知他们撤离建筑物。
"When he says genocide over and over again, when he refuses to condemn an ad that says Jews are to blame for the price of bananas, he makes my community less safe," Turkish said. "He makes a lot of communities less safe." El-Sayed is a long-time critic of Israel, calling the war in Gaza a "genocide." Israel argues that it is fighting terrorists that are using Gaza civilians as human shields, taking efforts to avoid civilian casualties such as notifying people and telling them to evacuate buildings before conducting strikes.
“每当他谈论种族灭绝，犹太人就会收到死亡威胁，”土耳其补充道。“我们从未见过一位美国参议员候选人像阿卜杜勒这样，对社区犹太人的安全表现得如此鲁莽。”土耳其斥责了该候选人与加利福尼亚州主播哈桑·皮克尔的关系，以及埃尔-赛义德拒绝与一个曾说“美国活该遭遇9·11袭击”的人划清界限。
"Every time he talks about genocide, Jews get death threats," Turkish added. "We have never seen a candidate for U.S. Senate act so recklessly toward the safety of Jews in the community as we have seen from Abdul." Turkish rebuked the candidate's ties to California streamer Hasan Piker, and El-Sayed's refusal to distance himself from someone he had said America deserved 9/11.
“最近几周我看着他，变得言辞犀利，对抗任何有胆量——在他看来是有胆量——问他关于哈桑问题的记者，”土耳其说。
"I watch him in recent weeks as he has become verbally combative with any reporter who has the gall, as he sees it, the gall to ask him about Hasan," Turkish said.
“我们从阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德那里听到的一切都包含模棱两可的说法，都包含试图为仇恨辩解的模棱两可说法，而仇恨没有任何辩解的余地。我预测密歇根州会拒绝他。”
"Everything we hear from Abdul El-Sayed includes equivocation, and it includes equivocations to try to explain away hate, and there is no explaining away hate. And I predict to you that Michigan will reject this."
土耳其是一位民主党捐赠者，也曾向一些共和党人捐款，他将自己的决定描述为“国家利益高于党派利益”。
Turkish, a Democratic donor who has also given to some Republicans, described his decision as "putting country before party."
“这是一个我们不能让他进入美国参议院的人，”罗杰斯周三晚在竞选集会上谈到埃尔-赛义德时说，他在既定演讲中没有提及土耳其的投票决定。“如果你不知道伊朗是我们的敌人，无法谴责受真主党启发的袭击，你就没有资格进入美国参议院。”土耳西是近期来自史蒂文斯阵营、转而支持罗杰斯的第二位重要人物。她的前竞选主席、律师大卫·克雷默周二表示，他也计划投票给罗杰斯。
"This is not someone we can let into the United States Senate," Rogers said of El-Sayed at his Wednesday night campaign event, making no mention of Turkish's vote in his stump remarks. "If you don't know Iran is our enemy and you can't condemn a Hezbollah-inspired attack. You have no business being in the United States Senate." Turkish is the second major figure from Stevens’ orbit to back Rogers in recent days. Her former campaign chair, attorney David Kramer, said Tuesday he also plans to vote for Rogers.
史蒂文斯在初选后背书了埃尔-赛义德，但自此后不久的一次团结早餐会后，就没有公开为他助选或与他同台亮相。
Stevens endorsed El-Sayed after the primary but has not campaigned or appeared with him publicly since a unity breakfast shortly afterward.