当选参议员阿卜杜勒·埃尔-萨耶德（Abdul El-Sayed，民主党-密歇根州）周四上午重申呼吁，主张参议员克里斯·范霍伦（Chris Van Hollen，民主党-马里兰州）取代少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer，民主党-纽约州）出任参议院多数党领袖。在CNN节目“CNN News Central”的采访中，这位新当选的密歇根州民主党人呼应了他5月份对马里兰州参议员竞逐该职位的背书。
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich.) reupped his calls Thursday morning for Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to become Senate majority leader over Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) In an interview on “CNN News Central,” the newly elected Michigan Democrat echoed his May endorsement of the Maryland senator for the role.
“我一直很明确：我认为他会是一位了不起的参议院多数党领袖，”埃尔-萨耶德对CNN主持人凯特·博尔杜安（Kate Bolduan）说。“当然，这是他必须做出的选择，看他是否想要争取这个职位。
“I’ve been very clear: I think he’d be an amazing Senate majority leader,” El-Sayed told CNN’s Kate Bolduan. “Of course, that’s a choice he has to make about whether or not he wants to pursue that.
“看起来他似乎对另一个政治目标很有兴趣，”他补充道，这显然是指关于范霍伦是否将在2028年竞选总统的猜测。
“It seems like he’s quite interested in another goal politically,” he added, in apparent reference to speculation around whether Van Hollen will run for president in 2028.
范霍伦曾在埃尔-萨耶德的参议员竞选中背书后者——舒默和其他民主党高层议员也同样背书。在7月的一次竞选集会上，埃尔-萨耶德向支持者人群介绍这位马里兰州民主党人为“下一任参议院多数党领袖”。堪萨斯州、伊利诺伊州和缅因州新当选的民主党参议员均已公开表示，他们不会支持舒默担任多数党领袖。
Van Hollen endorsed El-Sayed in his Senate bid — as did Schumer and other top Democratic lawmakers. At a July campaign rally, El-Sayed introduced the Maryland Democrat to a crowd of supporters as the “next Senate majority leader.”Newly-elected Senate Democrats in Kansas, Illinois and Maine have all publicly stated they would not back Schumer as majority leader.
周三，进步组织“不可分割”（Indivisible）呼吁民主党更换现任少数党领袖，称中期选举结果表明美国公众想要“一代新的美国斗士”。“我们需要一位有能力领导这场斗争的参议院领袖，”该组织在社交媒体帖文中写道。“参议院民主党人该选择新领导层了。”埃尔-萨耶德拒绝明确说出“我不支持谁”，并表示如果范霍伦对该职位不感兴趣，他会考察其他候选人。
On Wednesday, progressive group Indivisible called for Democrats to replace their current minority leader, saying the midterm election results indicated the American public wanted a “new generation of American fighters.”“We need a leader in the Senate who is capable of leading that fight,” the group wrote in a social media post. “It’s time for Senate Democrats to choose new leadership.”El-Sayed refused to explicitly say “who I’m not for” in this leadership contest and said he would examine other candidates if Van Hollen was not interested in the position.
“我支持克里斯·范霍伦，”他对CNN说。“如果他决定想当参议院多数党领袖，我认为他会把这份工作干得很出色。”
“I am for Chris Van Hollen,” he told CNN. “If he decides he wants to be Senate majority leader, I think he’d be amazing at the job.
“但他不在的情况下，我们面临的问题是，好吧，还有哪些其他选择，谁能让我们达到这样一个地步：我们能通过立法，把法案送到总统桌上，迫使他做出决定，这样我们就能谈谈我们利用授权解决人们生活中负担能力危机所做的工作，”他继续说道。
“But absent him, the question for us is, all right, who are the other options here and who is going to get us to a point where we are passing legislation, putting it on the president’s desk and forcing him to make a decision so that we can talk about what we did with the mandate that we had to be able to address the affordability crisis in people’s lives,” he continued.