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记者：亚伦·纳瓦罗 数字记者
密歇根州兰辛—— 在面对一群大多在“9·11”恐怖袭击发生时还未出生的大学生发表演讲时，密歇根州民主党联邦参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德首先以默哀仪式纪念恐怖袭击25周年。
随后他转而回击共和党对手迈克·罗杰斯——本周罗杰斯加大了对埃尔赛义德的批评，理由是后者与左翼流媒体主播哈桑·皮克存在关联。皮克曾在2019年称“美国活该遭遇9·11袭击”。
周五，埃尔赛义德批评了罗杰斯在国会任职期间对“9·11”袭击幸存者和一线救援人员福利投下的反对票。埃尔赛义德曾在民主党初选期间与皮克一同竞选，此后已与该主播划清界限。
罗杰斯2001年至2015年担任密歇根州联邦众议员，袭击发生后初期曾支持为“9·11”受害者提供财政援助。但他在2010年投票反对《詹姆斯·扎德罗加法案》，该法案旨在为2001年9月11日恐怖袭击的一线救援人员和幸存者提供医疗救治和经济援助。当时他推动将援助资金按年度拨款，并警告该法案“会损害美国的财政健康”，据《国会山报》当时的报道。
“他没有投票支持那些当天冲进废墟救人的勇敢一线救援人员，没有确保他们能获得医疗保障，反而投了反对票——而且不止一次，而是两次，”埃尔赛义德在周五的市政厅活动中说道。
罗杰斯随后对相关批评作出回应，在X平台发帖称“影射我不支持受害者及其家属，这完全是虚假的”，同时表示他曾主张每年拨款1.5亿美元用于支持“9·11”袭击幸存者和受害者家属。
与此同时，皮克关于“9·11”的言论引发了强烈批评，包括密歇根州共和党人在内的各方人士都试图将皮克与埃尔赛义德联系起来，而这场竞选或将决定参议院的控制权归属。今年8月，埃尔赛义德称皮克关于“9·11”的言论“愚蠢”。皮克在2019年曾表示自己的言论不当，并称“当时本应使用更精准、恰当的措辞”。
埃尔赛义德本人对袭击事件以及美国随后发动的军事冲突的言论也受到了审查。他在2021年表示：“9·11事件给我们国家留下了深刻的创伤，但我们在事件后采取的行动给数百万人造成了伤害。”
共和党人辩称，这些言论表明埃尔赛义德过于极端，本周在达拉斯举行的共和党中期选举大会上，多位发言者多次提及他的相关言论。
“民主党是仇恨的政党。他们是蔑视美国及其缔造者的政党。他们会对发动9·11袭击的恐怖分子表示同情，”副总统J·D·万斯在演讲中说道。
罗杰斯周四在达拉斯的演讲中将这场竞选描述为关乎“国家灵魂”的较量，声称当“极端伊斯兰恐怖分子威胁美国人”时，埃尔赛义德会“寻找借口”。
“（埃尔赛义德和皮克）二人一同攻击美国。他们为极端主义辩解。他们将我国视为反派，”曾在“9·11”事件发生时担任众议员的罗杰斯在周四的共和党大会上说道。
埃尔赛义德多次谴责“9·11”恐怖袭击，周五他表示“任何理由都无法为杀害无辜平民的行为开脱”。
埃尔赛义德的支持者以及穆斯林倡导团体称，将埃尔赛义德与袭击事件联系起来的做法是伊斯兰恐惧症。
密歇根州民主党选民、阿富汗战争退伍军人泰勒·米切尔表示，尽管他预计罗杰斯和共和党人会“循环播放”皮克的言论，但他认为他们之所以专门针对埃尔赛义德，是因为他作为一名虔诚穆斯林的信仰。
“他们盯着他，因为他是穆斯林，所以就用‘危险’这种说辞来攻击他，”埃尔赛义德在底特律市政厅活动前说道，“这是对人们判断力的不尊重。”
罗杰斯在一份声明中表示：“这与（埃尔赛义德）的姓名无关，也与他的祈祷方式无关。”
“这关乎他的思想有多极端，以及他想要为我们的州和国家推行的大政府社会主义式接管，”他补充道。
支持罗杰斯的共和党团体至少投放了三则提及“9·11”事件和皮克言论的广告。参议院共和党人主要政治行动委员会“参议院领导基金”宣布，今年秋季将在密歇根州投入超过4500万美元的广告预算。
罗杰斯本周还分享了多位退伍军人和一线救援人员的视频，他们在视频中谈论“9·11”事件并批评埃尔赛义德和皮克。
“居然有人支持那些说我们活该遭遇9·11袭击的人，这暴露了他们真正的效忠对象和忠诚所在，”阿富汗战争退伍军人乔恩·特恩布尔少校说道。
埃尔赛义德在竞选活动中被记者频繁问及皮克的言论。在周五的市政厅活动中，一名学生问及医疗议题时，他批评了相关报道。
“你们知道我总被问到什么吗？哈桑·皮克。你们这些媒体人，明明都在谈论医疗保健问题，却别老是问我关于加利福尼亚某个流媒体主播的事，”他说道。
当被问及罗杰斯周四在共和党大会上提及“9·11”事件和相关广告的言论时，埃尔赛义德批评罗杰斯在密歇根州以外开展竞选活动，且未在演讲中聚焦经济、医疗保健或与伊朗的冲突。
“这个人只要觉得对自己的政治竞选有利，就会援引9·11事件的记忆，却又拒绝给那些真正的英雄——冲进袭击现场救助他人的人——提供他们后续需要的医疗保障，”埃尔赛义德周四说道。
Michigan Senate candidates battle over their records on 9/11 at 25-year mark
September 11, 2026 / 6:10 PM EDT / CBS News
By Aaron Navarro Digital Reporter
Lansing, Mich. — Speaking to a room full of college students, many of whom weren’t alive during the 9/11 attacks, Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed started with a moment of silence to commemorate the 25th year since the terrorist attacks.
He then looked to hit back politically against his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, who has ramped up criticism of El-Sayed this week due to his ties to left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, who in 2019 said that “America deserved 9/11.”
On Friday, El-Sayed, who campaigned with Piker during the Democratic primary and has since distanced himself from the streamer, criticized votes Rogers took as a congressman against benefits for 9/11 survivors and first responders.
Rogers, who represented Michigan in the House from 2001 to 2015, backed financial support for 9/11 victims in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. But he voted against the 2010 James Zadroga Act, which provided medical treatment and financial aid to first responders and survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. At the time, he pushed for the aid to be funded annually and warned that the bill “jeopardizes the financial health of the United States,” The Hill reported at the time.
“Rather than vote to make sure that the brave first responders who ran into the rubble that day to save lives, rather to make sure that they had healthcare, he voted not once but twice against giving them healthcare,” El-Sayed said during a town hall Friday.
Rogers responded to the criticism of his voting record, saying in a post on X that the “insinuation that I do not support the victims or their families is patently false,” while noting that he advocated for an annual $150 million appropriation to support the needs of 9/11 survivors and victims’ families.
Meanwhile, Piker’s comments on 9/11 have drawn stiff criticism, including from Michigan Republicans who are looking to tie him to El-Sayed in a race that could decide control of the Senate. In August, El-Sayed called Piker’s comments about 9/11 “dumb.” In 2019, Piker said his comments were inappropriate, and that he “should’ve used more precise and better use of the language there.”
El-Sayed’s own comments on the attacks — and the military conflicts that the U.S. launched in response — have also faced scrutiny. He said in 2021 that “9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people.”
Republicans have argued those comments show El-Sayed is too extreme, and he was referenced numerous times by speakers at this week’s Republican midterm convention in Dallas.
“The Democrats are the party of hatred. They’re the party that despises America and the people who built it. They’re the party that can find sympathy for the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11,” Vice President JD Vance said during his remarks.
During his own speech in Dallas on Thursday, Rogers framed the contest as one about the “soul of our country,” suggesting El-Sayed would be “searching for excuses” when “radical Islamic terrorists threaten Americans.”
“Together, [El-Sayed and Piker] attack America. They excuse extremism. They treat our country like it’s the villain,” Rogers, a congressman during the 9/11 attacks, said at the GOP convention on Thursday.
El-Sayed has repeatedly condemned the 9/11 attacks, saying Friday that “nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians.”
El-Sayed supporters, as well as Muslim advocacy groups, have called the attempt to associate El-Sayed with the attacks Islamophobic.
Tyler Mitchell, a Democratic voter in Michigan and also an Afghanistan War veteran, said while he expects Piker’s comments to be “put on a loop” by Rogers and Republicans, he believes they’re targeting El-Sayed in particular because of his faith as a practicing Muslim.
“They look at him, because he’s a Muslim, so they target that with the rhetoric about being dangerous,” Mitchell said before El-Sayed’s town hall in Detroit. “It’s disrespectful to people’s intellect.”
In a statement, Rogers said “it’s not about [El-Sayed’s] name, and it’s not about how he prays.”
“This is about how extreme his ideas are and the big-government socialist takeover he wants for our state and nation,” he added.
GOP groups supporting Rogers have run at least three ads that reference 9/11 and Piker’s comments. The leading political action committee for Senate Republicans, the Senate Leadership Fund, has announced over $45 million in ad reservations in Michigan this fall.
Rogers has also shared videos of veterans and first responders this week talking about 9/11 and criticizing El-Sayed and Piker.
“For somebody to support somebody that says that we deserved 9/11 shows their true allegiance, their true loyalties,” said Maj. Jon Turnbull, an Afghanistan War veteran.
El-Sayed has been asked frequently on the campaign trail by reporters about Piker’s comments. And during a Friday town hall, he criticized coverage of it after a student asked about healthcare.
“You know what I always get asked about? Hasan Piker. All you in the press, you hear these folks are talking about healthcare. Stop asking me about some streamer in California,” he said.
Asked on Thursday about Rogers’ remarks mentioning 9/11 and the GOP ads, El-Sayed criticized Rogers for campaigning outside of Michigan and for not focusing on the economy, healthcare or the war with Iran during his Thursday remarks at the convention.
“This is somebody who, you know, when he thinks it’s politically useful for him, wants to invoke the memory of 9/11, but also wants to deny the people who were the real heroes, who ran in to the attacks to take care of others, the healthcare that they need afterwards,” El-Sayed said Thursday.
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