科里·布克对密歇根州联邦参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德的表态，发生在华盛顿一场“气氛热烈”的会面数日后
2026年9月21日 美国东部时间上午10:36 / 福克斯新闻
作者：彼得·达布罗斯卡
WATCH: 民主党参议员被问及与埃尔赛义德共同竞选一事，后者回避关键问题
密歇根州参议院民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德会见了多位知名民主党参议员，以争取党内对其竞选活动的支持。参议员们对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，对他的竞选活动以及他与哈桑·皮克的关联看法不一。
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新泽西州民主党参议员科里·布克在被问及密歇根州阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德的竞选活动时做出的回应，引发了一些在线观察人士的质疑：民主党民选官员是否真的与这位带有社会主义色彩的候选人划清界限。
本周日，这位新泽西州民主党人在接受克里斯汀·韦尔克采访时亮相美国广播公司《与媒体见面》节目，期间被问及一系列政策问题，以及唐纳德·特朗普总统宣布禁止CNN、MSNBC和Politico进入白宫场地的消息。但有关埃尔赛义德的问题成为了焦点。
“参议员，您从我们的民调中看到，社会主义的负面评价甚至比‘让美国再次伟大’运动还要高，”韦尔克开场说道。“特朗普总统正试图将进步派，坦率地说，将所有民主党人都描绘成社会主义者，而我们现在正在密歇根州见证一场关于进步主义的重大较量，主角就是阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德……您认为民主党人是否已经足够明确地将自己与社会主义划清界限？”
“再说一遍，这正是共和党人想做的——盯着几个极端分子，”布克回应道。
随后他避开了讨论党内建制派与极左翼候选人的分歧，转而抨击特朗普的经济和外交政策。
“我在美国参议院任职，我可以谈谈我的同事们，无论左右，”布克说。“我们现在想要的是结束这些鲁莽的关税，压低物价，结束这场推高物价的战争，出台一项能为工薪阶层口袋里多装些钱的税收计划，并终止对美国最富有人群的施舍。”
X平台上的政治观察人士迅速抓住这番回应，声称布克如今才试图将民主党与极左翼极端派以及今年中期选举中社会主义候选人的崛起划清界限，为时已晚。
“哎呀，”电台节目主持人杰森·兰茨在谈及布克对韦尔克的评论时只说了这一个词。
“为时已晚，于事无补，”特朗普媒体与科技集团通讯顾问凯蒂·扎卡里亚说道。“布克参议员正试图脱离‘大帐篷’，而这个帐篷正在燃烧。”
她补充说，这位参议员本应直截了当地谴责社会主义，并声称“民主党陷入了混乱”。
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“我真的很想知道他们在华盛顿向那些参议员展示的内部民调结果如何，”作家卡尔·保卢斯推测，民主党内部的民调可能显示极左翼正在拖垮民主党，导致在11月选举仅剩几周之际，现任议员们改变了立场。
布克是上周埃尔赛义德访问华盛顿期间会见他的几位参议员之一。
此次会面由参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默牵头，会后埃尔赛义德的竞选团队将此次聚会描述为“气氛热烈”。
“我们一致认为，我们必须赢得密歇根州。无论我们有什么分歧，我们都一致认为，赢得密歇根州以夺回参议院多数席位的重要性不言而喻，”埃尔赛义德在谈到此次会面时告诉MSNBC。
“我们进行了一场气氛热烈的会面，交谈很愉快，我知道我们离开这场谈话时都承诺要尽我们所能容纳不同的观点。我也知道，将我们团结在一起的东西远比我们之间的任何分歧都要重要得多。”
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福克斯新闻数字频道联系了布克的办公室和埃尔赛义德的竞选团队，但在发稿时未收到回复。
彼得·达布罗斯卡是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者。
Critics pounce as prominent Dem senator seems to make admission about party’s far-left ‘fringe’
Cory Booker’s dismissal of Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed came days after a ‘warm’ meeting in DC
September 21, 2026 10:36am EDT / Fox News
By Peter D’Abrosca
WATCH: Dem senators pressed on campaigning with El-Sayed as he sidesteps key questions
Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed met with prominent Democratic senators as he sought to rally party support for his campaign. The senators offered Fox News Digital mixed views on his campaign and his association with Hasan Piker.
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Sen. Cory Booker’s response to a question about Abdul El-Sayed’s election campaign in Michigan has some online observers questioning whether the Democratic Party’s elected officials are behind the socialist-adjacent candidate.
The Democrat from New Jersey joined Kristen Welker on ABC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, when he was asked a wide variety of policy questions along with a question about President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds. But the question about El-Sayed stole the show.
“Senator, you see there in our polls that socialism is viewed even more negatively than the ‘MAGA movement,’” Welker began. “President Trump is trying to paint progressives, and frankly all Democrats, as socialists, and we’re seeing one of the big battles play out for progressivism in Michigan right now with Abdul El-Sayed… do you think Democrats are drawing a firm enough line between themselves and socialism?”
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is leaning in on tax cuts ahead of his 2026 midterm campaign.(PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
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“Again, this is really what the Republicans want to do — focus on a few fringe people,” Booker replied.
He then diverted away from discussing the party establishment’s fracture with far-left candidates and pivoted to attacking Trump’s economic and foreign policies.
“I serve in the United States Senate and I could go through my colleagues, left and right,” Booker said. “What we want right now is to end these reckless tariffs and drive down prices, to end this war to drive down prices, to give a tax plan for this country that puts more money in working peoples’ pockets and ends the giveaways to the wealthiest of Americans.”
Political observers on X quickly seized on the response, claiming that Booker is too late in the push to try and distinguish the Democratic Party from its far-left fringe and the rise in socialist candidates in this year’s midterm elections.
“Oops,” radio show host Jason Rantz simply of Booker’s comments to Welker.
Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks to members of the media ahead of the Michigan Democratic Party’s 2026 nominating convention in Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026.(Sarah Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“A day late and a dollar short,” said Trump Media & Technology Group communications adviser Katie Zacharia. “Senator Booker is trying to disassociate as the ‘Big Tent’ burns.”
She added that the senator should have condemned socialism outright, claiming the “Dem party [is] in disarray.”
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“I really wonder what the internals they showed those senators in DC said,” author Carl Paulus, speculating that polling within the Democratic Party could suggest that the far left is dragging them down and causing sitting lawmakers to change their tune with just weeks until November’s election.
Booker was one of several senators who met with El-Sayed during a trip to Washington, D.C., last week.
After the meeting, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., El-Sayed’s campaign described the gathering as “warm.”
Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to discuss the path forward for his campaign and Democrats’ efforts to win back control of Congress following a longstanding feud between the two.(Finn Gomez/Getty Images; Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We’re united in the fact that we have to win Michigan. Whatever our difference is, our agreement on the importance of winning Michigan to take back the Senate majority [is] overwhelming,” El-Sayed told MS NOW of the meeting.
“We had a warm meeting, good conversation, and I know that we left that conversation committed to doing what we need to do to take on different perspectives. And I also know that the things that bring us together are so much bigger than any of the disagreements that we have.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to Booker’s office and the El-Sayed campaign but did not hear back at time of publication.
Peter D’Abrosca is a politics reporter at Fox News Digital.
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