Rep. Haley Stevens Endorsed Mike Rogers Because A Democratic Karen Is Still A Karen

So, it turns out that within the Democratic Party, there’s a white woman named Haley who should’ve been named Karen, because, seriously — is there a bigger congressional Karen on the Democratic side than Rep. Haley Stevens?

Because y’all know that’s what this is all about, right? Stevens got primaried by Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, and now she’s endorsing his Republican opponent, Rep. Mike Rogers, as part of a big old temper tantrum over El-Sayed basically telling her: You can’t sit with us anymore.

For those who are unaware, Stevens, who, up until this past weekend, had been fierce in blasting Rogers as a misogynist who would serve as “another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda, announced Sunday that she would be endorsing that MAGA-fied rubber stamp instead of her party’s nominee.

This, of course, did not go over well with congressional Democrats or her own staff, more than half of whom walked out on her after she released a video announcing her crossing of the political aisle.

Even Democratic centrists like Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi were none too pleased.

Schumer called it a “dangerous betrayal,” Pelosi accused Stevens of choosing “to dangerously betray Michigan families’ healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement of Mike Rogers,” and Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel said flat-out that “Stevens is not a current member of the Michigan Democratic Party, nor will she be in the future.”

Now, according to The New York Times, Stevens was preparing to make an appearance at a unity event alongside El-Sayed, but after she issued a statement Friday morning, calling for El-Sayed to denounce podcaster Hasan Piker and his Rebellion PAC ad, the Democratic nominee responded by saying he’d rather she sit the event out.

Now, Stevens is out here trying to convince her party — and maybe herself — that she endorsed Rogers because of El-Sayed’s association with Piker and his stances against U.S. funding for Israel, but it reeeeally seems like she’s just salty about getting uninvited to El-Sayed’s cookout.

“Abdul made very clear that I was not welcome in his campaign, that he didn’t need me there, that he didn’t want me there,” Stevens said Sunday, while standing next to her enemy’s enemy, whom she has clearly made her friend. “I did endorse the Democratic nominee, and he chose to close this campaign by saying I wasn’t welcome. I’ve never been invited to a campaign event. That’s fine. You know, he’s busy. He’s running all around.”

Ain’t that white women in progressive circles in a nutshell? All it took was for El-Sayed to curve her just once, and Stevens went from this…

To this…

Then came her interview with  CNN’s Anderson Cooper, which was so frustrating to watch that even Cooper was basically like, “Sis, please be for real.”

During the interview, Cooper told Stevens that fellow Democratic congresswoman Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell said she had spoken to her at midnight and that Stevens said then that she was not going to endorse Rogers.

“If that is true, what changed between then and this morning?” Cooper asked.

It was a very simple question, which Stevens was intent on not answering.

“I woke up this morning clear-eyed, fresh and focused on what was in my heart and that’s that,” she said.

“He just doesn’t have me and a few other people who love this party. Nothing with me changed, Anderson.” Stevens went on to say, after rambling in a way that really made it seem like she was just stalling until she came up with a plausible answer, which she never did.

“This is about Abdul getting angrier and angrier and saying, ‘I don’t want these people in my campaign,” she added.

“But he didn’t get angrier from midnight last night to this morning,” Cooper responded. “Something changed your mind.”

Stevens also brought up Piker and El-Sayed’s stance on Israel while she was trying to find an answer that didn’t make her sound like she was making it all up as she went along, but she kept circling back to being disinvited to his campaign trail, and clocking that as El-Sayed being “angry” and unkind. Then she had the caucasity to tell Cooper, “It sounds like you’re upset with me, too, Anderson.”

“No, I’m really not. You’re not really answering any of my questions. So it’s somewhat frustrating,” he responded.

“Anderson, I was just trying to help this campaign and stand up for people who feel hurt,” she said. “I am not the only one in this position. I am just casting my vote.”

What does that even mean?

Mind you, this white woman decided that because El-Sayed is angry and mean because he didn’t want her around, she would endorse a man who has joined the rest of the GOP and President Donald Trump in making his entire platform and political personality about xenophobic and Islamophobic fearmongering.

So, as a woman, Stevens was fiercely against Rogers, especially due to his anti-choice stance, but as a white woman, she’s willing to endorse an anti-abortion white nationalist because the Muslim guy told her no.

Sad, but not surprising.

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