共和党国会竞选委员会称劳伦斯为“社会主义者”，其主张废除警察与监狱，民主党扩大中期选举目标名单之际
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福克斯新闻记者克里斯蒂娜·科尔曼详细报道了密歇根州民主党国会候选人威廉·劳伦斯被删除的社交媒体帖文及其过往被捕经历，劳伦斯此前曾呼吁削减警察经费并将化石燃料生产收归国有。
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众议院民主党竞选机构正支持一名极左翼候选人，该候选人有着一连串极具争议性和煽动性的言论，还有犯罪记录。在密歇根州一个关键的国会摇摆选区赢得民主党提名后，民主党机构推迟了一个多月才对他提供帮助。
民主党国会竞选委员会（DCCC）本周扩大了其旨在翻转共和党掌控的众议院席位的目标名单，此时民主党正努力在中期选举中重新夺回众议院控制权。新增入该委员会“红转蓝”计划的三名候选人之一是密歇根州的威尔·劳伦斯。
劳伦斯2013年因在一场抗议活动中拒捕被捕。福克斯新闻获取的文件显示，劳伦斯被控擅闯民宅、拒捕及阻碍执法。他表示该定罪记录后来已被消除。
劳伦斯还删除了数百条过往颇具争议的社交媒体帖文，其中包括支持废除警察和监狱、开放边境、废除参议院，呼吁民主党“内战”，以及抨击核心家庭，称其为“社会暴力组织方式的一部分”。
众议院民主党候选人2013年被捕事件在关键国会竞选案中浮出水面
2026年7月19日，美国众议院候选人威廉·劳伦斯在密歇根州兰辛的集会上发言。（安德鲁·罗斯/西帕美国 via 路透社）
劳伦斯曾是美国民主社会主义者（DSA）成员，他称自己的会员资格已过期。劳伦斯也收回了自己此前的许多言论，包括曾经呼吁削减警察经费。
他上月在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中表示：“我不支持削减警察经费。我遵循该选区与我会面的一线急救人员和枪支暴力预防倡导者的立场，他们支持为青年项目、心理健康资源和社区暴力干预项目增加拨款，并与执法部门合作。”
劳伦斯还与自己的其他一些言论划清界限，他告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）：“和许多千禧一代一样，我在互联网上也有过不少随口一说的想法。”
作为进步派组织“日出运动”的联合创始人，劳伦斯在上月密歇根州民主党初选中击败了两名获得建制派支持的对手。这场激烈的提名对决进一步加剧了党内极左翼和中间派之间的内战。
他如今正在密歇根州第7国会选区挑战连任一届的共和党众议员汤姆·巴雷特。该选区以兰辛为中心，唐纳德·特朗普总统2024年在该选区仅以1个百分点的优势胜出。
劳伦斯被纳入DCCC计划是在他初选获胜一个多月之后。这并非反常之举，因为DCCC和其竞争对手共和党国会竞选委员会（NRCC）有时会在初选获胜者产生几周后才提供支持，他们会考量民调、筹款等其他因素。
但民主党消息人士告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，一些进步人士对这一推迟感到不满。据美国有线电视新闻网报道，DCCC之所以拖延，部分原因是为了尊重国会黑人核心小组（CBC）的领导人，因为劳伦斯此前因针对黑人政客的言论受到批评。
国会黑人核心小组尚未表态支持劳伦斯，部分原因是他在2024年播客中批评黑人政治领袖，称他们是“美国资本主义、帝国主义建制的支柱”。劳伦斯已就这些言论以及他称黑人政治领袖“削弱白人左翼力量”的说法道歉。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系国会黑人核心小组，但在本文发布时未收到回复。
将劳伦斯纳入DCCC名单的做法遭到了中间派民主党人的反对。
民主党中间派智库“第三道路”的联合创始人兼执行副总裁马特·贝内特告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“我认为他们推迟了这么久，一是因为他是一名极左翼候选人，在一个目前由共和党掌控的摇摆选区参选；二是他曾发表过关于非裔美国人的极具争议的言论，而在摇摆选区参选时，这可不是什么好事。”
贝内特补充道，如果劳伦斯无法修复与国会黑人核心小组的关系，“这可能会进一步加剧党内的紧张关系”。
“日出运动”联合创始人在密歇根州关键选区击败建制派民主党人
密歇根州国会候选人威廉·劳伦斯在社交媒体上分享了这张照片，当时他公开谈及自己2013年在一场环保抗议活动中被捕的经历。他和其他人将自己用锁链绑在机器上，以抗议石油和天然气管道项目。（Instagram/@wewill2026mi）
民主党国会竞选委员会主席苏珊·德尔贝恩众议员在周二的声明中表示，劳伦斯以及另外两名新增入“红转蓝”计划的候选人——威斯康星州的民主党人米切尔·伯曼和阿拉斯加州的独立候选人比尔·希尔，“代表了各自社区最优秀的人才——未被收买、务实的领导人，他们深知在艰难选区获胜需要什么”。
“汤姆·巴雷特站在特朗普和企业特殊利益集团一边，而威尔·劳伦斯则站在人民一边。他敢于对抗任何试图利用密歇根州谋取私利的人，在国会中，他将继续为养育他的社区争取公平机会而奋斗，”德尔贝恩补充道。
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2026年7月19日，美国参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德（左）、参议员伯尼·桑德斯（中）和美国众议院候选人威廉·劳伦斯（右）在密歇根州兰辛的集会上。（安德鲁·罗斯/西帕美国 via 路透社）
但共和党国会竞选委员会发言人扎克·班农抨击了DCCC将劳伦斯纳入名单的举动。
“华盛顿民主党人正在接纳社会主义者威廉·劳伦斯，他想要废除警察、废除监狱、禁止化石燃料、允许对儿童进行变性手术，并推行密歇根州中部地区其他所有极左翼自由派政策，”班农指责道。
与此同时，共和党国会竞选委员会全国新闻秘书迈克·马里内拉在社交媒体上发布了一长串劳伦斯过往极具争议的言论。
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随着劳伦斯、希尔和伯曼的加入，DCCC的目标名单上现在已有40个竞选席位。
“这只是密歇根州第7选区是全美竞争最激烈的选区之一的最新迹象，”劳伦斯在X平台上就DCCC的举措发表评论时说道。“这表明我们这场旨在降低生活成本、对抗企业势力的草根竞选正获得动力，这是对我们的信任投票。”
福克斯新闻的莉兹·埃尔金德为本报告做出了贡献。
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Dems boost convicted radical-left candidate, reigniting tensions inside the party
The NRCC called Lawrence a ‘Socialist’ who wants to abolish police and prisons as Democrats expand their midterms target list
September 17, 2026 4:45am EDT / Fox News
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Fox News correspondent Christina Coleman details deleted social media posts and a past arrest involving Michigan Democratic congressional candidate William Lawrence, who previously called for defunding the police and nationalizing fossil fuel production.
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The House Democrats’ campaign arm is embracing a far-left candidate with a long trail of controversial and inflammatory comments — along with an arrest record — who won their party’s nomination in a crucial congressional swing district in battleground Michigan, after holding off on helping him for over a month.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) this week expanded its target list of GOP-controlled House seats it is aiming to flip as Democrats work to recapture control of the chamber in the midterm elections. One of the three candidates added to the committee’s “Red to Blue” program is Will Lawrence of Michigan.
Lawrence was arrested in 2013 on charges of resisting police during a protest. Documents obtained by Fox News showed Lawrence was charged with trespassing and with resisting and obstructing an officer. He has said the conviction was later expunged.
Lawrence has also deleted hundreds of past controversial social media posts, including support for scrapping police and prisons, open borders, abolishing the Senate, calling for a Democratic Party “civil war” and bashing the nuclear family, which he characterized as part of a “violent way of organizing society.”
HOUSE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE’S 2013 ARREST RESURFACES IN PIVOTAL RACE FOR CONGRESS
U.S. House candidate William Lawrence speaks at a rally in Lansing, Michigan, on July 19, 2026.(Andrew Roth/Sipa USA via Reuters)
A former Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member who says he let his membership lapse, Lawrence has walked back many of his previous statements, including once calling for defunding the police.
He told Fox News Digital in a statement last month, “I don’t support defunding the police. I follow the lead of first responders and gun violence prevention advocates I have met with here in the district, who support increased funding for youth programs, mental health resources, and community violence intervention, working in collaboration with law enforcement.”
Lawrence has also distanced himself from some of his other comments, telling CNN, “Like many millennials, I’ve done my fair share of thinking out loud on the internet.”
Lawrence, a co-founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement, topped two establishment-backed rivals in last month’s Democratic primary in Michigan, in a heated nomination showdown that further fueled the party’s civil war between the far-left and the center-left.
He’s now challenging first-term Republican Rep. Tom Barrett in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, a Lansing-anchored seat that President Donald Trump carried by just one point in the 2024 election.
Lawrence’s addition to the DCCC program came more than a month after his primary victory. That’s not out of the ordinary, as the DCCC and the rival National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) sometimes take a few weeks before elevating primary winners, as they consider polling, fundraising and other considerations.
But Democratic sources told Fox News Digital that some progressives had grown frustrated with the delay. The DCCC waited, in part, out of deference to Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) leaders, according to a CNN report, as Lawrence faced criticism over past comments about Black politicians.
The CBC has yet to endorse Lawrence, in part because of his 2024 podcast comments criticizing Black political leaders, calling them a “pillar” of the “capitalist, imperialist” American establishment. Lawrence has apologized for those comments and for also charging that Black political leaders “defang the White left.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the CBC, but didn’t receive a response at the time this article was posted.
Adding Lawrence to the DCCC list is getting some pushback by centrist Democrats.
“I think they waited so long because he is a pretty far-left candidate running in a swing district that is currently held by a Republican, and two, he has said something very, very controversial about African Americans and that’s not a great combination when you’re trying to win a swing district,” Matt Bennett, co-founder and executive vice president of the Democratic centrist think tank Third Way, told Fox News Digital.
“It could further exacerbate tensions within the party” if Lawrence hasn’t been able to patch up his relationship with the CBC, Bennett added.
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Michigan congressional candidate William Lawrence shared this image on Instagram when he opened up about his 2013 arrest during an environmental protest. He and others chained themselves to machinery in defiance of an oil and gas pipeline.(Instagram/@wewill2026mi)
In making her announcement on Tuesday, DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene said that Lawrence and the two other candidates added to the “Red to Blue” program, Democrat Mitchell Berman of Wisconsin and independent Bill Hill of Alaska, “represent the very best of their communities — unbought, practical leaders who know what it takes to win in tough districts.”
“While Tom Barrett sides with Trump and the corporate special interests, Will Lawrence sides with the people. He stands up to anyone trying to take advantage of Michigan, and in Congress he’ll keep fighting to give the community that raised him a fair shot,” DelBene added.
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U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, left, Sen. Bernie Sanders, center, and U.S. House candidate William Lawrence, right, at a rally in Lansing, Mich., on July 19, 2026.(Andrew Roth/Sipa USA via Reutes)
But NRCC Spokesman Zach Bannon pilloried the move by the DCCC to add Lawrence to its list.
“D.C. Democrats are embracing Socialist William Lawrence, who wants to abolish the police, abolish prisons, ban fossil fuels, allow sex changes for kids and advance every other far-left liberal policy in mid-Michigan,” Bannon charged.
Meanwhile, NRCC national press secretary Mike Marinella took to social media to post a long list of Lawrence’s past controversial comments.
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With the additions of Lawrence, Hill and Berman, the DCCC now has 40 races on its target list.
“This is just the latest sign that MI-07 is one of the most competitive races anywhere in the country,” Lawrence said on X as he commented on the DCCC’s move. “And it’s a vote of confidence that our people powered campaign fighting to bring down the cost of living and standing up to corporate power is gaining momentum.”
Fox News’ Liz Elkind contributed to this report.
Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News
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