“Did you talk to anyone? Did you have a long night of the soul? Were you up all night? ... Did you have a dream?”

Interviewing the Michigan US representative Haley Stevens on CNN on Sunday, Anderson Cooper was casting about for explanations. What caused the Democrat’s radical change of heart between a Saturday night promise to her House colleague Debbie Dingell that she would stand with the Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed and a public endorsement Sunday morning of his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers?

All Cooper could get from Stevens was her bruised feelings at el-Sayed’s “anger and lack of kindness”. El-Sayed disinvited her from a campaign event at a Black church with the South Carolina representative Jim Clyburn. She went to another Black church and sat with Rogers.

Stevens told Cooper she has “a whole heck of a lot of love for the Democratic party”, and that she “was just trying to help this campaign and stand up for people who felt hurt”. Democrats from the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer to the Vermont senator........

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