面对唐纳德·特朗普及其盟友的一连串极端攻击，民主党建制派终于团结在进步派候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德周围——他是该党在备受关注的密歇根州美国参议院选举中的候选人。但这种背书并不总是毫无保留，甚至常常省略他的名字。
Facing a barrage of extreme attacks from Donald Trump and his allies, the Democratic establishment is finally rallying around progressive Abdul El-Sayed, the party’s candidate in the closely-watched US Senate election in Michigan. But the endorsement is not always full-throated, and often even omits his name.
周日，在休伦港的一场集会上，这位美国总统对埃尔-赛义德发起了一轮新的伊斯兰恐惧症式攻击，错误地将他称为“圣战分子”和“穆斯林兄弟会成员”，并提及9·11事件。
At a rally in Port Huron on Sunday, the US president launched the latest in a wave of Islamophobic rants against El-Sayed, erroneously branding him a “jihadist” and “Muslim Brotherhood member” while invoking 9/11.
但知名民主党人已纷纷表态支持埃尔-赛义德。就在同一个周末，独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯在大急流城与他一同举行集会，前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在底特律站在他身旁。几天前，纽约州众议员亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯与他一起在该州巡回造势。
But prominent Democrats have lined up to support El-Sayed. That same weekend, the independent senator Bernie Sanders rallied with him in Grand Rapids, and former president Barack Obama stood beside him in Detroit. Days earlier, New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toured the state with him.
这一最后时刻的团结展示，标志着民主党的一次转变——今年8月，该党曾因埃尔-赛义德的提名而激烈分裂，他当时以微弱优势击败了一位得到党中央机器大部分支持的温和派亲以色列候选人，从而赢得提名。
This last-ditch show of solidarity marks a turn for a party that split bitterly over El-Sayed’s nomination in August, which he narrowly clinched by beating a moderate pro-Israel candidate backed by much of the central party machine.
民调显示，密歇根州参议院选情胶着，这场选举可能有助于决定哪个党派控制整个参议院。民调通常显示埃尔-赛义德略微领先于他的共和党对手迈克·罗杰斯。
The Michigan Senate race – which could help decide which party controls the entire chamber – is a close, according to polls, which have typically given El-Sayed a small lead over his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers.
越来越多的资深民主党人前往密歇根州，为一位许多党内领导人在初选中并未支持的提名人站台——同时明确表示他们并不完全与其立场一致。
Senior Democrats have increasingly traveled to Michigan to back a nominee that many of the party’s leaders did not back in the primary – while making clear they are not fully aligned.
为缩小差距，共和党人加大了煽动性攻击的力度。特朗普本月多次称他为“穆罕默德”，全国共和党参议院委员会还播出了使用他全名阿卜杜勒拉赫曼·穆罕默德·埃尔-赛义德的广告。
In a bid to close the gap, Republicans have doubled down on their incendiary attacks. Trump has repeatedly called him “Mohammed” this month, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee has aired ads using his full name, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
出生于密歇根州、父母为埃及移民的埃尔-赛义德将这些攻击斥为干扰手段。他在一份声明中说：“他知道我叫阿卜杜勒。他每天都这么说。”他指责总统试图“利用我的名字和我的信仰来分散我们的注意力”，让人们忽视汽油、食品杂货和医疗保健的价格问题。
El-Sayed, who was born in Michigan to Egyptian immigrants, has dismissed such attacks as a distraction. “He knows my name is Abdul. He says it every day,” he said in a statement, accusing the president of trying to “use my name and my faith to distract us” from the cost of gas, groceries and healthcare.
埃尔-赛义德曾任底特律市和韦恩县的卫生官员，他的竞选纲领支持拟议的“全民医保”全民医疗保健体系，并呼吁将企业资金逐出政治、对亿万富翁和企业征税，以及废除美国移民和海关执法局。他还呼吁终止美国对以色列的军事援助，同时称以色列在加沙的战争是种族灭绝。
A former Detroit and Wayne county health official, El-Sayed is running on a platform that endorses the Medicare for All proposed system of universal healthcare, and calls for taking corporate money out of politics, taxing billionaires and corporations and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He has also called for ending US military aid to Israel, while calling its war in Gaza a genocide.
上周的一项马里斯特民调显示，在可能投票的选民中，埃尔-赛义德的支持率为50%，罗杰斯为48%。截至10月初，他在广告支出上以近一比二落后。
A Marist poll last week put El-Sayed at 50% and Rogers at 48% among likely voters. He was trailing by nearly two to one in ad spending as of early October.
奥巴马周六在底特律的亮相是民主党高层态度转变的最明确信号。他在提前投票的第一天与埃尔-赛义德同台——这是自8月初选以来他首次公开支持埃尔-赛义德——与此同时，白人至上主义者、1月6日国会骚乱参与者杰克·朗在场外举行了抗议。
Obama’s Saturday appearance in Detroit was the clearest sign of the shift by the Democrat party heirarchy. He joined El-Sayed on stage on the first day of early voting – his first public show of support for El-Sayed since the August primary – while a protest held by the white nationalist and 6 January rioter Jake Lang took place outside.
这位前总统将针对埃尔-赛义德名字的攻击比作他自己曾遭遇的攻击。“我提醒他们，他的名字叫巴拉克，”他说。
The former president likened the attacks on El-Sayed’s name to those he faced himself. “I remind them his name was Barack,” he said.
奥巴马在5月CNN民调中的好感度为57%，是所有在世总统中最高的。他还驳斥了埃尔-赛义德是激进分子的说法。“希望人人都能享有医疗保健，这有什么激进的？”他问道，并表示埃尔-赛义德将“完成我们通过《平价医疗法案》开启的事业”。
Obama, whose 57% favorable rating in a CNN poll conducted in May is the highest of any living president, also rejected the idea that El-Sayed is radical. “What is so radical about wanting everybody to have healthcare?” he asked, saying El-Sayed would “finish the job we started” with the Affordable Care Act.
但奥巴马承认，他并非始终认同埃尔-赛义德的观点——后者曾批评过他作为总统做出的一些决定。“我们不可能在每一个问题的每一个细节上都达成一致，”他说。“你知道还有谁不认同我做的每一件事吗？米歇尔·奥巴马。”奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和桑德斯都已向埃尔-赛义德的竞选活动转账100万美元。前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯上个月在底特律与他一同露面。
But Obama acknowledged that he did not agree with El-Sayed, who has criticized some of his decisions as president, all the time. “We are not going to agree on every detail of every issue,” he said. “You know who else doesn’t agree with everything I do? Michelle Obama.”Both Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders have transferred $1m to the El-Sayed campaign. Former vice-president Kamala Harris appeared with him in Detroit last month.
在同一场集会上发言的参议员埃莉萨·斯洛特金对人群说，她指望埃尔-赛义德作为伙伴，在国会共同对抗特朗普的议程。但她也曾表示，她和埃尔-赛义德“并非在所有事情上都意见一致——这没关系”，并且此前还主张，谴责左翼主播哈桑·皮克——埃尔-赛义德曾与其一同参加竞选活动——应该不难。
Senator Elissa Slotkin, who spoke at the same rally, told the crowd she was counting on El-Sayed as a partner in confronting Trump’s agenda in Congress. Yet she has also said she and El-Sayed “don’t agree on everything — and that’s OK”, and previously argued that condemning the leftwing streamer Hasan Piker, with whom El-Sayed has campaigned, should not be hard.
其他人的态度则更为谨慎。参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默现已为埃尔-赛义德背书，但他表示，埃尔-赛义德在以色列问题上的观点“与我的大不相同”；前众议员桑德·莱文尽管在同一议题上与他所谓的“重大分歧”存在，仍为他背书。众议员希拉里·肖尔滕表示，她不会与任何与皮克有往来的人一起参加竞选活动。
Others have been more guarded. Senate Democratic leaderChuck Schumer, who has now endorsed El-Sayed, said his views on Israel are “much different than mine”, while the former congressman Sander Levin endorsed him despite what he called “significant disagreement” on the same subject. Representative Hillary Scholten said she would not campaign with anyone who associates with Piker.
新泽西州参议员科里·布克历来亲以色列，周三在CNN上被问及此事时，他给出了同样含糊其辞的回答。当时主播鲍里斯·桑切斯播放了一段黑人牧师的讲话片段，这位牧师说，一些选民担心埃尔-赛义德会把加沙等海外议题置于密歇根州的需求之上。
Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who has historically been pro-Israel, gave a similarly noncommittal answer on CNN on Wednesday, when anchor Boris Sanchez played a clip of a Black pastor saying some voters fear that El-Sayed would prioritize issues abroad such as Gaza over Michigan’s needs.
布克谈到了自己在密歇根州的家族根源，并谈到“赢回参议院”，但没有点名提到埃尔-赛义德。当桑切斯向他指出这算不上“强有力的背书”时，布克面无表情，节目继续进行。
Booker spoke about his family roots in Michigan and about “winning back the Senate” without mentioning El-Sayed by name. When Sanchez pointed out to him this was not “a ringing endorsement”, Booker remained stone-faced, and the segment continued.
但最引人注目的回应来自黑利·史蒂文斯，这位亲以色列的女众议员曾在8月以不到一个百分点的优势击败了埃尔-赛义德。她曾获得包括美国以色列公共事务委员会（AIPAC）在内的多个团体支持，该委员会为她投入了近3000万美元——这是该游说组织在单场竞选中最大的一笔投资。
But the coolest response came from Haley Stevens, the pro-Israel congresswoman El-Sayed beat in August by less than a point. She had been backed by groups including the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) , which spent close to $30m backing her – the lobby’s largest investment in a single race.
周日，当CNN的达娜·巴什问她是否仍然完全支持他时，她说自己“在团队里”。“你刚才的回答里没有提到阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德，”巴什指出。史蒂文斯回答说，她曾敦促埃尔-赛义德发表演讲回应黑人选民的关切，但这件事并未发生。
Asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday whether she was still fully behind him, she said she was “on the team”. “You didn’t mention Abdul El-Sayed in that last answer,” Bash noted. Stevens replied that she had urged El-Sayed to give a speech addressing Black voters’ concerns, and that it had not happened.
在初选中，史蒂文斯在韦恩县击败了埃尔-赛义德，该县是黑人占多数的底特律所在地，她赢得了约51%的民主党选票，而他获得45%。奥巴马敦促周六集会上的人群支持整份候选人名单。
In the primary, Stevens beat El-Sayed in Wayne county, home to majority-Black Detroit, taking about 51% of the Democratic vote to his 45%. Obama urged Saturday’s crowd to back the full ticket.
据昨晚透露，埃尔-赛义德和史蒂文斯将于周日——即选举日两天前——一起竞选，这将是他们数月来首次联合公开露面。
El-Sayed and Stevens are set to campaign together on Sunday – two days before election day – it emerged last night, in what would be their first joint public appearance in months.
与此同时，罗杰斯正在争取犹太选民的支持——这一群体传统上更倾向于支持民主党——他告诉《犹太电讯报》，埃尔-赛义德“反犹太人”，而埃尔-赛义德否认这一指控。
Rogers, meanwhile, is courting Jewish voters, traditionally more likely to back Democrats, by telling the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that El-Sayed is “anti-Jew”, a charge El-Sayed rejects.
民主党建制派这种谨慎且附带条件的接纳是否足以帮助埃尔-赛义德，将在周二见分晓——在2024年特朗普以不到两个百分点优势赢下的这个州。
Whether a cautious and caveated embrace by the Democratic establishment is enough for El-Sayed will be settled on Tuesday, in a state Trump won by less than two points in 2024.
如果埃尔-赛义德获胜，他将成为美国首位穆斯林参议员。为了走到这一步，他已经将一个持怀疑态度的政党机器拉到了自己一边。
If El-Sayed wins, he would be the first Muslim US senator. To get there, he has already pulled a skeptical party machine toward his side.