MSNBC主持人克里斯·海耶斯表示，众议员海莉·史蒂文斯在密歇根州参议员竞选中“令人震惊”的背书转向，可能会在周二的中期选举前“奇怪地”团结民主党人。据海耶斯称，许多地方和全国性民主党人对史蒂文斯支持共和党参议员迈克·罗杰斯的迅速而愤怒的反应表明，“人们确实理解”即将到来的选举的利害关系。
MS NOW’s Chris Hayes said Rep. Haley Stevens’ “shocking” endorsement switch in the Michigan Senate race could end up “weirdly” unifying Democrats ahead of Tuesday’s midterms. According to Hayes, the swift and furious reaction from many local and national Democrats to Stevens’ support of Republican Sen. Mike Rogers shows that “people do understand the stakes” of the upcoming election.
《与克里斯·海耶斯面对面》节目主持人将史蒂文斯周日撤回对民主党人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德背书的决定描述为“反常的”。“人们有他们的信仰和政治立场，他们被允许因原则性分歧而离开政党并背书任何人——事情就是如此。我们生活在一个自由社会；这是一个民主制度，”他说。“但她个人处理此事的方式简直离谱透顶。”
The “All In with Chris Hayes” host characterized Stevens’ decision to rescind her endorsement of Democrat Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday as “aberrant.”“People have their beliefs and they have their politics, and they’re allowed to leave parties and endorse whoever because of principled disagreements — and that is what it is. We live in a free society; it’s a democracy,” he said. “But the way that she personally went about this was just downright bizarre.”
埃尔-赛义德今年早些时候在民主党初选中击败史蒂文斯后不久，史蒂文斯曾背书埃尔-赛义德。但两人的关系在最近几天似乎恶化了，起因是围绕一个外部团体广告的争端，史蒂文斯称她认为该广告带有反犹太主义色彩。她还批评埃尔-赛义德与主播哈桑·皮克有关联。
Stevens endorsed El-Sayed shortly after he defeated her in the Democratic primary earlier this year. But their relationship appeared to sour in recent days amid a dispute over an outside group’s ad that Stevens said she believed was antisemitic. She also criticized El-Sayed over his association with streamer Hasan Piker.
海耶斯指出，史蒂文斯对罗杰斯的背书甚至招致了曾支持她或高度批评埃尔-赛义德人士的批评，其中包括《大西洋月刊》撰稿人乔纳森·查特和美国进步中心主席尼拉·坦登。
Hayes noted that Stevens’ endorsement of Rogers drew criticism even from people who had supported her or had been highly critical of El-Sayed, including Atlantic writer Jonathan Chait and Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden.
海耶斯还强调了前众议院议长南希·佩洛西的反应，佩洛西在初选中支持了史蒂文斯。佩洛西说，这位众议员“选择了危险地背叛密歇根州家庭的医疗保健、自由和未来，她对迈克·罗杰斯的可怕支持令人发指”。她补充说，埃尔赛德“必须获胜——因为密歇根州和我们的国家值得更好的待遇”。
Hayes also highlighted the reaction from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who backed Stevens in the primary. Pelosi said the congresswoman had “chosen to dangerously betray Michigan families’ healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement of Mike Rogers.”She added that El-Sayed “must win — because Michigan and our country deserve better.”
海耶斯暗示，这种反应表明，“面对这种非常震惊、古怪和反常的事情”，民主党人“在其后以一种奇怪且反直觉的方式团结起来”，因为“人们确实明白利害关系”。
Hayes suggested that kind of reaction showed that “in the face of this very shocking, bizarre and aberrant thing,” Democrats were “unifying weirdly and counterintuitively in the wake of it” because “people do understand the stakes.”
MS NOW节目主持人表示，该党能够团结在埃尔赛德身后，甚至让持有深刻分歧的民主党人也加入，这体现了大帐篷联盟的价值。“民主党内部存在真实、真诚、善意的斗争，建立更大帐篷联盟的部分代价就是你会遇到更多这样的斗争，”他解释道。“如果民主党周二度过我有生以来最好的夜晚，并带着55名参议员入场，那将是一场真正难以管理的麻烦。”
The MS NOW host said the party’s ability to rally behind El-Sayed, even bringing along Democrats with deep disagreements, showed the value of a broad coalition. “There are real, genuine, good-faith battles inside the Democratic Party, and part of the price of building a bigger-tent coalition is you get more of them,” he explained. “If the Democrats have the best night of my lifetime on Tuesday and walk in with 55 senators, that is going to be a real pain to manage.”
但海耶斯认为，民主党人会欢迎管理此类分歧的挑战。他说，更大的联盟将带来更尖锐的内部辩论，既来自该党的左翼（如埃尔赛德和缅因州参议员候选人特洛伊·杰克逊），也来自右翼（如堪萨斯州参议员候选人亚当·汉密尔顿和爱荷华州参议员候选人乔什·图雷克）。“作为一个政党，这是最好的问题，”他说。
But Hayes argued that Democrats would welcome the challenge of managing such disagreements. A larger coalition, he said, would bring sharper internal debates, both from the party’s left (as with El-Sayed and Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson) and its right (as with Kansas Senate candidate Adam Hamilton and Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek). “That’s the best possible problem to have as a party,” he said.