Haley Stevens Slammed for Statement Suggesting She's Willing to Sabotage Midterms to Halt Progressive Surge | Common Dreams
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With Michigan’s Senate race on a knife-edge, Haley Stevens is demanding Abdul El-Sayed apologize over Israel and condemn an ad he says he had no role in. Is party infighting handing Republicans an opening?

In the final days of the US Senate campaign in Michigan, Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed is leading in polls, winning praise for taking President Donald Trump and his Republican opponent to task with incisive humor, and providing a clear closing message in evocative ads.

Stevens said she would campaign with El-Sayed this weekend alongside Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), but demanded that he apologize for comments he has made about Israel on the campaign trail. El-Sayed, like a growing majority of Americans, is deeply critical of US support for Israel’s military, to which it sends billions of dollars in aid annually. Since Israel began attacking Gaza in October 2023, the Biden and Trump administrations have sent $21 billion in military aid to Israel.

The congresswoman demanded that El-Sayed apologize for suggesting “that Israel is the reason Michigan cannot afford schools, healthcare, and childcare.”

“Abdul promises to get money out of politics,” she said. “He can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.”

  • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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    10 days ago

    Thanks for putting an exclamation point on why you lost to him. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, and go enjoy the sour grapes your fiancé is already publicly sucking upon.

    …her fiancé, who publicly announced he would vote for Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers…

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    There are lots of mixed politics couples in the US, but it’s usually because politics aren’t that important to them compared to the things that bring them together. But if your job is politician and you’re nominally in it because you care about the impact of politics on people, a fiance voting for the other party shouldn’t be some minor thing you just sweep under the rug.

    Especially now, when one of the big arguments for Democrats is that Trump and the Republican party are a threat to democracy. Seems like that’s something someone who cares so much about politics they were going to lead their local party should probably consider a moral issue and deal breaker. It not being a big deal feels like everything was just an act and no one should take your statements on politics seriously thereafter.