好吧，现在正式了。在数周公开质疑阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛德之后，众议员海莉·斯蒂文斯现在支持他的共和党对手迈克·罗杰斯。而且她是在选举日前不到48小时做出这一决定的。
Well, it’s official. After weeks of publicly questioning Abdul El-Sayed, Congresswoman Haley Stevens has now endorsed his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers. And she did it less than 48 hours before Election Day.
这是一次非常无耻的政治投机表现。她并非突然对一个她此前批评为“特朗普危险议程的橡皮图章”的人产生了钦佩之情。她通过这次背书所展示的是，她的言辞以及她声称所坚持的一切都毫无价值，因为我们无需猜测斯蒂文斯对迈克·罗杰斯的看法。我们有她自己X账户上的证据。
This is a very shameless display of political opportunism. She didn’t all of a sudden develop some admiration for a man she previously criticized as a “rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda.”What she did with this endorsement is demonstrate how little her words and everything she claims to stand for are worth, because we don’t have to guess what Stevens thought about Mike Rogers. We have the receipts from her own X account.
八月：“迈克·罗杰斯将成为特朗普危险议程的又一个橡皮图章。”
In August: “Mike Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda.”
六月：“迈克·罗杰斯在LGBTQ+权利方面的记录令人反感。他不配代表密歇根州民众。”四月：她称罗杰斯为“MAGA迈克”，并将其描述为“可耻的”，指的是他竞选团队雇佣赞扬希特勒的学生所引发的争议。
In June: “Mike Rogers’ record on LGBTQ+ rights is repulsive. He has no business representing Michiganders.”In April: She called Rogers “MAGA Mike” and described him as “disgraceful,” pointing to controversy surrounding his outreach team’s hiring of students who praised Hitler.
别忘了这一条，她说：“迈克·罗杰斯无法掩盖他在堕胎权方面的糟糕记录。”现在请记住，这是同一位斯蒂文斯，她在八月初选失利后反复表示将支持民主党候选人。这是同一位女性，她在竞选支出上以12比1超越埃尔赛德却仍然失利。她在失利后的背书附带了一些相当重要的条件，也没有在同一舞台上展示公开团结。
And let me not forget this one, where she said: “Mike Rogers can’t hide his terrible record on abortion rights.”Now, remember, this is the same Stevens who repeatedly said she would support the Democratic ticket after losing the primary in August. This is the same woman who outspent El-Sayed 12 to 1 and still lost. Her endorsement, after losing, has come with some pretty significant caveats, and no display of public unity on the same stage.
她并非一开始就表示不支持埃尔赛德，而是暗示，由塞恩克·尤古尔的“反叛政治行动委员会”发布的一则独立广告才是她对埃尔赛德支持动摇的原因。该广告批评美国对以色列的军事援助，并将其与美国民众不断上涨的杂货账单联系起来。埃尔赛德多次与该广告划清界限，他对一名记者说：“那则广告不是我制作的，我也不同意该广告的内容。”
Instead of just saying she doesn’t endorse El-Sayed from the start, she is suggesting an independent ad from Cenk Uygur’s Rebellion PAC criticizing U.S. military aid to Israel and connecting it to Americans’ rising grocery bills is the reason why her support for El-Sayed has collapsed. El-Sayed has repeatedly distanced himself from the ad in question, telling a reporter: “That ad was not made by me and I do not agree with the contents of that ad.”
看来她从来就不想真正支持埃尔赛德。在贝拉克·奥巴马10月24日的集会上凸显了民主党在密歇根州的势头之后，斯蒂文斯次日在CNN上露面，对埃尔赛德的竞选活动提出质疑，同时回避自己是否全力帮助他获胜。
It seems she never really wanted to support El-Sayed. After Barack Obama’s Oct. 24 rally highlighted Democratic momentum in Michigan, Stevens appeared on CNN the following day, raising questions about El-Sayed’s campaign while sidestepping whether she was fully invested in helping him win.
10月26日，她公开批评了该政治行动委员会的广告。与此同时，埃尔赛德竞选团队明确表示：该广告与竞选团队或阿卜杜勒无关。两天后，她的未婚夫杰森·土耳其与泰德·克鲁兹一起参加了迈克·罗杰斯的活动并支持罗杰斯，而斯蒂文斯继续对CNN表示，她计划投票给埃尔赛德。
On Oct. 26, she publicly criticized the PAC ad. At the same time, the El-Sayed campaign explicitly states: Ad not affiliated with campaign or Abdul. Two days later, her fiancé, Jason Turkish, attended a Mike Rogers event alongside Ted Cruz and endorsed Rogers, while Stevens continued telling CNN she planned to vote for El-Sayed.
就在她原定与埃尔赛德和众议员吉姆·克莱伯恩共同出席教堂活动前两天，斯蒂文斯发表了一份长篇声明，要求埃尔赛德撤销对该广告的支持。随后，她的未婚夫在TMZ上露面，暗示她可能会重新考虑自己的支持。
Then, just two days before a planned joint church appearance with El-Sayed and Congressman Jim Clyburn, Stevens issued a lengthy statement demanding that El-Sayed disavow the ad. Her fiancé subsequently appeared on TMZ, suggesting she could possibly reconsider her endorsement.
埃尔赛德的竞选团队予以反驳，称他不希望她的出席成为干扰。他在X上发布的一份团队声明说：“斯蒂文斯众议员似乎执意要重新审视三个月前结束的初选。”他的声明还提醒选民，以色列公共事务委员会大量花钱试图击败他，并在那场初选中支持斯蒂文斯。现在，斯蒂文斯成了谈话的焦点，而不是政策和竞选本身。
El-Sayed’s campaign pushed back, saying he didn’t want her appearance to become a distraction. A statement from his team he released on X said: “Congresswoman Stevens seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago.”His statement also reminded voters that AIPAC spent heavily trying to defeat him and supporting Stevens in that primary. Now Stevens has become the topic of conversation instead of the policies and the race.
连密歇根州参议员马洛里·麦克莫罗都感到困惑，她在7月退出了民主党初选：“我完全不知道黑莉·斯蒂文斯在搞什么鬼。我们现在必须意识到形势的严重性。”
Even Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow, who dropped out of the Democratic primary in July, seemed baffled: “I have no idea what the hell Haley Stevens is doing. This is a moment where we have to recognize the stakes.”
就连斯蒂文斯办公室里的许多人也完全困惑不解。她的长期幕僚长周日宣布辞职，并表示团队中多名成员也已辞职。参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默称她的决定是“可耻的背叛”。斯蒂文斯有权不同意埃尔赛义德，但在可能决定参议院控制权的选举前几天，反复制造削弱本党候选人的头条新闻，这简直荒谬。
Lots of people even in Stevens’s own office are thoroughly confused. Her longtime chief of staff announced his resignation Sunday, saying multiple members of the team had also resigned. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called her decision a “despicable betrayal.”Stevens is entitled to disagree with El-Sayed, but repeatedly creating headlines that undermine your own party’s nominee days before an election that could decide the balance of power in the Senate is absurd.
在最后关头背书一个你从堕胎记录、雇佣反犹太人士到LGBTQ权利记录糟糕等各方面都批评过的人，这实在太离谱了。
The last-minute endorsement of a man you’ve criticized for everything from his abortion record to hiring antisemitic people to having a terrible record on LGBTQ rights is truly wild.
斯蒂文斯不能花数月时间告诉选民，参议院控制权岌岌可危，你想为医疗保健改革和埃尔赛义德的许多相同政策而战，然后在最后几天公开削弱你需要让这些政策得以实现的候选人。
Stevens cannot spend months telling voters that control of the Senate is on the line and that you want to fight for health care reforms and many of the same policies of El-Sayed, then spend the final days publicly undermining the very candidate you need to get those policies to the finish line.
林赛·格兰杰是NewsNation的撰稿人，也是《国会山报》评论节目《崛起》的联合主持人。本文是她现场评论的编辑转录稿。
Lindsey Granger is a NewsNation contributor and co-host of The Hill’s commentary show “Rising.”This column is an edited transcription of her on-air commentary.