“You took a chance on(在……上冒险) the unlikeliest(最不可能的) of candidates,” Abdul El-Sayed told a Detroit crowd on Wednesday, declaring victory in Michigan’s hard-fought, often ugly, Senate race. In what was predicted to be a squeaker(势均力敌的险胜), the Democrat beat his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, by a healthy seven points(以整整七个百分点).
“你们把赌注押在了最不可能胜出的候选人身上，”阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德周三在底特律对人群说道，宣布在密歇根州一场激烈且常常丑陋的参议院竞选中获胜。在这场原本预测势均力敌的选举中，这位民主党人以整整七个百分点的优势击败了共和党对手迈克·罗杰斯。
In some ways, El-Sayed was an unlikely candidate. At 34, in his first Congressional run, he set his sights almost cockily(自负地) on a US Senate seat. He ran on what has become an uncontroversial(无争议的) affordability platform but also championed the socialist-adjacent(带有社会主义色彩的) Medicare for All(全民医保提案).
在某些方面，埃尔-赛义德确实是个不太可能的候选人。34岁时，他首次竞选国会议员，就几乎有些自负地把目标瞄准了美国参议院席位。他的竞选纲领包括如今已无争议的“可负担性”议题，但他同时也倡导带有社会主义色彩的“全民医保”。
But what was generally believed to qualify him as an unlikely candidate – and an even unlikelier winner – was his uncompromising criticism of Israel’s policies toward Palestine and Palestinians.(但人们普遍认为，真正让他成为冷门候选人——更是冷门赢家——的原因，是他对以色列针对巴勒斯坦及巴勒斯坦人政策的毫不妥协的批评。)
但人们普遍认为，真正让他成为冷门候选人——更是冷门赢家——的原因，是他对以色列针对巴勒斯坦及巴勒斯坦人政策的毫不妥协的批评。