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在争取成为密歇根州下任联邦参议员的竞选中，进步派民粹主义者阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德正在挑战外界对密歇根选民身份及其真实诉求的固有认知。在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网资深白宫与政治记者埃德·奥基夫采访时，埃尔赛义德对“该州选民是温和派”的定性提出了质疑。
“人们总说这个州会投票给温和派，可它明明两度投票支持了唐纳德·特朗普，这在我看来总是很可笑，”周一在密歇根州初选前一天，他在底特律对奥基夫说道，“或许更合理的解释并不是该州想要温和派：而是它受够了两党建制派都被企业收买，所以宁愿捂着鼻子，两次把票投给特朗普。”
埃尔赛义德在周二民主党初选中的主要对手是众议员黑利·史蒂文斯，这位温和派议员代表底特律外围的一个选区，是参议院多数党领袖查克·舒默为这场竞选招募的人选。史蒂文斯得到了大多数建制派民主党人的支持，而佛蒙特州独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯和纽约州众议员亚历山德里亚·奥卡西奥-科特兹等进步派人士则站在埃尔赛义德这边。
作为一名曾在2018年竞选州长失利的医生，埃尔赛义德仅依靠草根捐款，不接受政治行动委员会（PAC）的资金，而史蒂文斯则从包括游说美国支持以色列的美以公共事务委员会（AIPAC）在内的多个政治行动委员会获得了数千万美元。
埃尔赛义德告诉奥基夫，他想要打造一个“广泛联盟”，涵盖“任何想要对抗法西斯主义的人、任何想要将金钱从政治中剔除的人、任何想要为工会权利而战的人、任何想要确保人们能够呼吸清洁空气、饮用干净水的人、任何想要保障医疗保健的人”。
他指出，民主党之所以流失部分支持率，是因为该党一直在关注狭隘的利益群体，而非设法满足大多数美国人的需求。
“有时候，民主党谈起大帐篷时，会把所有人都赶到角落，然后只去讨好那个角落的群体，”他对奥基夫说，“我只是想把所有人都带到中间的帐篷支柱旁，讨论我们真正需要的东西。我们需要优质的住房，我们需要优质的学校，我们需要医疗保健。”
当被问及是否有不希望在党内出现的观点时，埃尔赛义德回应道：“我们试图确立一种基于‘将金钱赶出政治、让民众钱包鼓起来、全民医保’的立场。”
美国民主社会主义者协会并未 endorsed 埃尔赛义德，但桑德斯和其他民主社会主义者一直在密歇根州各地为他助选。
埃尔赛义德表示，他不在乎党派标签——“我不搞意识形态”，尽管他并非民主社会主义者协会成员，但他认为该协会的支持者应该被接纳进民主党。
“我们需要一个涵盖所有人群的联盟，”他说，“你知道还有谁会加入我的联盟吗？那些想要医疗保健、想要把资金留在美国本土的三次投票支持特朗普的选民。”
他承认，确实有人“真的想给我贴上社会主义者的标签”。
埃尔赛义德说：“我更愿意把自己看作是真正了解资本主义的资本家，从这个意义上说，资本主义最大的风险始终是企业合并和垄断，而非政府监管。事实上，你需要一定的政府监管，才能确保资本主义良好运行。”
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Senate candidate El-Sayed says it’s “funny to me” to assume Michigan votes for moderates when it voted twice for Trump
2026-08-03T17:54:24-0400 / CBS News
In his race to be the next Democratic senator from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive populist, is challenging perceptions about who Michigan’s voters are and what they really want. In an interview with CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe, El-Sayed questioned the characterization of the state’s voters as moderates.
“It’s always funny to me that people want to say that this state votes for moderates when it voted for Donald Trump twice,” he told O’Keefe in Detroit Monday, on the eve of the Michigan primaries. “It may just be that the better explanation is not that the state wants moderates: It’s that it’s so sick and tired of the establishment bought off by corporations on both sides of the political aisle that it was willing to hold its nose and vote for Donald Trump twice.”
El-Sayed’s main opponent in the Democratic primary Tuesday is Rep. Haley Stevens, a moderate who represents a district outside Detroit and was recruited for the race by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Stevens has the support of most establishment Democrats, while progressives like independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are in El-Sayed’s corner.
El-Sayed, a doctor who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018, is relying solely on grassroots donations and is not accepting PAC money, while Stevens has received tens of millions of dollars from several PACs, including AIPAC, which lobbies for U.S. support for Israel.
El-Sayed told O’Keefe he wants to build a “broad coalition,” including “anybody who wants to take on fascism, anybody who wants to get money out of politics, anybody who wants to fight for union rights, anybody who wants to make sure that people can live free with clean air and drink clean water, anybody who wants to guarantee healthcare.”
He suggested that the Democratic Party has been losing some support because it’s been focusing on a narrow band of interests rather than coming up with ways to address the needs of most Americans.
“Sometimes, when the Democratic Party talks about a big tent, we push everybody into the corner and then go talk and pander to the corner,” he told O’Keefe. “I’m just trying to bring everybody to the tent pole in the middle to talk about what we really need. We need good housing. We need good schools. We need healthcare.”
Pressed on whether there are views he doesn’t want to see in the party, El-Sayed responded, “We’re trying to define a viewpoint that’s built on money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all.”
The Democratic Socialists of America have not endorsed El-Sayed, but Sanders and other democratic socialists have been campaigning for him across Michigan.
El-Sayed says he doesn’t care about party labels — “I don’t do ideology” — and while he’s not part of DSA, he thinks its supporters should be welcomed into the Democratic Party.
“You want a coalition of all people,” he said. “You know who else are going to be part of my coalition? Three-time Trump voters who want health care, who want to keep our money here at home.”
He acknowledged that there are some who “really want to label me a socialist.”
El-Sayed says, “I’d rather think of myself as a capitalist who’s actually read about capitalism, in the sense that the biggest risk to capitalism was always going to be corporate consolidation and monopoly rather than government regulation. In fact, you need some government regulation to make sure that capitalism runs well.”
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