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查克·舒默称此次会面“十分愉快且富有成效”，但不愿透露党内初选分歧是否已弥合
作者：亚历克斯·米勒、罗伯特·施马德、汉娜·布伦南 福克斯新闻
发布于 2026年9月16日 美国东部时间晚上8:18
【观看】民主党参议员被问及是否会与埃尔-赛义德一同竞选，后者回避关键问题
密歇根州联邦参议院民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德与多位资深民主党参议员会面，以期为自己的竞选争取党内支持。参议员们对福克斯新闻数字频道表示，对他的竞选及其与哈桑·皮克的关联看法不一。
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密歇根州这位激进派民主党参议院候选人此前一直刻意与华盛顿保持距离，但周三他前往美国国会山，与民主党高层举行闭门会议，此时权力角逐正愈演愈烈。
阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德在国会山数百码外的地点与参议院民主党高层会面，议员们与这位神童候选人齐聚一堂，讨论他的竞选计划以及如何保住密歇根州的民主党阵地。
不少与会者放话称，密歇根州不会变成紫色摇摆州。
但包括参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党参议员查克·舒默在内的多数人，都不愿提及埃尔-赛义德在初选中造成的裂痕是否已经修复。
舒默回避是否会与这位拒绝支持他的社会主义候选人一同竞选
密歇根州联邦参议院民主党候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德与纽约州民主党参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默会面，讨论其竞选的后续路径，以及民主党在长期积怨后夺回国会控制权的计划。（芬恩·戈麦斯/盖蒂图片社；丹尼尔·赫尔/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
“听着，我们必须赢下密歇根州，我们的会面非常愉快且富有成效，”当被福克斯新闻数字频道问及他与埃尔-赛义德是否已摒弃分歧时，舒默说道。
尽管如此，埃尔-赛义德还是在华盛顿民主党参议院竞选委员会（DSCC）总部与民主党高层进行了长达数小时的会谈。当天，包括盟友和对其参选持怀疑态度的议员在内的大批人士，进出该总部大楼。
舒默和民主党人信心满满，决心拿下参议院目前共和党以53票对47票占据的多数席位。如果密歇根州被共和党和前众议员迈克·罗杰斯拿下，将对民主党夺回参议院的计划造成致命打击。
“他会赢的，”同为民主党参议院竞选委员会主席的纽约州参议员克里斯汀·吉利布兰德说道。
民主党人的核心任务是争取独立选民和摇摆共和党选民。但包括舒默在内的少数人表示，他们实际上不会与埃尔-赛义德一同踏上竞选之路。
这一切都发生在埃尔-赛义德与密歇根州民主党众议员黑利·史蒂文斯爆发激烈民主党初选之争后，这场对决堪称本届选举周期最激烈的党内争斗之一，将民主党老牌建制派与在全国范围内崭露头角的进步运动对立起来。
【现场画面】民主党参议员公开支持埃尔-赛义德，但回避进步派议程相关问题
最初支持密歇根州州参议员马洛里·麦克莫罗（后退出竞选）的康涅狄格州民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“很显然，初选往往会变得十分激烈，密歇根州的初选更是火药味十足。”
“初选结束后，你要做的就是努力团结全党，然后着手争取独立选民和共和党选民的支持，”墨菲补充道。“所以，没有人会对他在激烈初选后试图搭建沟通桥梁感到意外。这才是优秀候选人该做的事，也是能赢得选举的候选人该做的事。”
另一位麦克莫罗的支持者、马萨诸塞州民主党参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦对这次闭门会议给出了积极评价，她表示“里面太吵了，太多人在交谈、欢笑，大家都在讨论竞选相关的话题。”
“他很擅长建立联系，因为在场的很多人都在讨论‘我们接下来能做什么？我们能做些什么来降低普通家庭的生活成本？我们能做些什么让政府更好地为劳动人民服务？’所以，这是一群充满热情、气氛融洽的参会者。”
即将退休的密歇根州民主党参议员加里·彼得斯的席位正是埃尔-赛义德竞选的目标，他最初曾支持史蒂文斯。如今，他的态度已经转变。
民主党向左转趋势显现，埃尔-赛义德在密歇根州胜选引发党内辩论
Twitch主播哈桑·皮克曾与密歇根州民主党参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德一同出现在竞选活动中。（朱莉娅·德马雷·尼基森/美联社照片）
“我正在支持他，他在密歇根州得到了各界的支持。民主党人正在团结起来，”当被问及民主党建制派是否团结在埃尔-赛义德身后时，彼得斯说道。“我们都明白这次选举有多重要。”
还有更多人热切希望协助埃尔-赛义德，包括墨菲和亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利，他表示“再过几周我就会前往密歇根州。”
在深蓝州马萨诸塞州寻求连任的马萨诸塞州民主党参议员埃德·马基表示，民主党在选战最后阶段的战略是推出可负担性政策议程，而埃尔-赛义德“正是合适的人选”。
当被问及是否会为埃尔-赛义德筹款时，马基说道：“我会帮助他，我认为我们所有人都会伸出援手。”
埃尔-赛义德与颇具争议的Twitch主播哈桑·皮克的关系是个隐患，后者在初选中助力扩大了埃尔-赛义德的竞选声势，但民主党人在闭门会谈中并未提及此事。
“哈桑？谁啊？”当被问及会谈中是否提到皮克时，参议院少数党党鞭、伊利诺伊州民主党参议员迪克·德宾告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“我甚至不知道那是谁。”
当被问及皮克是否被提及，或者民主党人是否鼓励埃尔-赛义德进一步与其划清界限时，新泽西州民主党参议员安迪·金说道：“谈话中没有涉及这一点。就像我说的，我只是想多了解了解他。”
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埃尔-赛义德起初回避了福克斯新闻数字频道关于是否会与皮克一同竞选的问题，随后他告诉记者：“这场讨论与民众真正关心的事情相去甚远。”
“在密歇根州，人们每天都坐在餐桌旁问：‘下个月我该怎么维持生计？’这不是左翼、右翼的问题，而是基本的生活负担能力问题。”
当被进一步追问时，他反驳称密歇根州选民“根本不在乎这个”。
“他们真的不在乎，”埃尔-赛义德说道。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道负责报道美国参议院的撰稿人。
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Dem insurgent turns on the charm with party establishment as Schumer leaves bitter feud hanging
2026-09-16T20:18:57-04:00 / Fox News
Chuck Schumer called it a ‘great and friendly meeting’ but wouldn’t say if primary divisions within the party had healed
By Alex Miller , Robert Schmad , Hannah Brennan Fox News
Published September 16, 2026 8:18pm EDT
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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Michigan’s insurgent progressive Senate nominee ran as far as he could from Washington, D.C., but, on Wednesday, he traveled to the nation’s Capitol for a closed-door meeting with top Democratic brass as the race for power intensifies.
Abdul El-Sayed met with top Senate Democrats just hundreds of yards away from Congress, where lawmakers and the wunderkind candidate huddled to discuss his campaign and how to keep Michigan blue.
Many left boasting that the Wolverine State would not turn a shade of purple.
But few, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., would say whether the fences broken during El-Sayed’s primary fight had been mended.
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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 after a longstanding feud between the two.(Finn Gomez/Getty Images; Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Look, we have to win Michigan, and we had a great and friendly meeting,” Schumer said when asked by Fox News Digital if he and El-Sayed had moved on from their differences.
Still, El-Sayed held court with Democratic brass for hours at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s (DSCC) headquarters in Washington, where a steady flow of lawmakers — both allies and skeptics of his Senate bid — milled in and out of the building throughout the day.
Schumer and Democrats are confident and determined that they can flip the Senate, which Republicans hold with a 53-47 margin. Losing Michigan to the GOP and former Rep. Mike Rogers would serve a mortal blow to that push.
“He’s gonna win,” Sen. Kirstin Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who is also the DSCC chair, said.
The key mission for Democrats is getting independents and Republicans on the fence. But few, including Schumer, said they would actually hit the campaign trail with El-Sayed.
It all comes after El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., locked horns in one of the most bitter Democratic primary fights of this cycle that pitted the Democratic old guard versus a progressive movement gaining steam across the country.
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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who initially endorsed Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow before she dropped out, told Fox News Digital, “Obviously, primaries can get really hot, and the Michigan primary got hot.
“This is what you do after a primary is you try to unite the party and then you do the work to reach out and cross over to independent voters and Republican voters,” Murphy added. “So, I don’t think anybody should be surprised that he’s trying to build bridges after a heated primary. That’s what good candidates, that’s what winning candidates do.”
Another McMorrow backer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., painted a rosy picture of the closed-door session and noted it was “hard to hear in there because so many people were talking and laughing and wanted to hear about the campaign.
“He makes good connections because it’s a lot of people in there who are talking about, ‘What can we do next? What can we do to lower costs for families? What can we do to make this government work better for working people?’ So, it was a very enthusiastic, very cheerful group of people.”
Retiring Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., whose seat El-Sayed is gunning for, initially endorsed Stevens. Now, he’s shifting gears.
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Twitch streamer Hasan Piker appeared on the campaign trail with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
“I’m endorsing him, and he’s been getting support across the board in Michigan. The Democrats are coming together,” Peters said in response to a question about whether the Democratic establishment was uniting behind El-Sayed. “We understand how important this election is.”
Others were more keen to lend an assist to El-Sayed, including Murphy and Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., who said, “I’m gonna be in Michigan here in a couple of weeks.”
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., who is running for re-election in deep blue Massachusetts, said that Democrats’ strategy heading into the final stretch was pitching an affordability agenda, and El-Sayed “is the answer.”
“I’m helping him. I think we’re all gonna help,” Markey said when asked if he would raise money for El-Sayed.
The specter of El-Sayed’s relationship with controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who helped to amplify his campaign in the primary battle, wasn’t something that Democrats focused on during their huddle.
“Hasan what?,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told Fox News Digital when asked if he came up during the meeting. “I don’t even know who that is.”
When asked if Piker came up or if Democrats encouraged El-Sayed to further distance himself from him, Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., said, “Not in terms of the conversation. Like I said, I was just trying to get to know him.”
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After initially dodging Fox News Digital’s question on whether he would campaign with Piker, El-Sayed later told reporters, “This conversation is so far removed from what people are talking about.
“Everyday, in Michigan, people sit at their kitchen tables and ask, ‘How am I going to make this work next month?’ That’s not a middle, right, left issue, that’s a basic affordability issue.”
When further pressed, he countered that Michigan voters “really don’t care about that.”
“They really don’t,” El-Sayed said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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