Thomas Marchetti

CNN's @ScottJenningsKY on Haley Stevens doubling down on her Mike Rogers endorsement to Anderson Cooper... "I think she is struggling, but why is the question? I mean, she's been a Democrat her entire life. She's been a Democratic elected official. She's been one of the most important Democrats in the country. And, if you look at the reaction to her announcement today, look at what Democrats are saying about her. Look, some of the leading voices in the Democratic Party on the American left are saying some of the most horrible things about her, all because she decided to make a political choice that she didn't like. And so, I assume, by tonight, she is struggling. I don't know what changed overnight. And you talked to her. I didn't, but, you know, she has agency. You know, she is a person who's put herself forward for public service in Michigan, and she ultimately just couldn't get comfortable enough with Abdul el-Sayed. I think, frankly, there are going to be a lot of Democrats in Michigan who never quite got comfortable with Abdul el-Sayed, including perhaps some people who told pollsters that, yes, I intend to vote Democrat, but when they get in the booth, they're not going to be able to do it. That's what happened in the primary. He drastically underperformed in the primary because a lot of Democrats just couldn't do it. And so, I don't know how she arrived at this decision, but I know this. This campaign and the agents of this campaign have gotten very, very ugly and very ornery, and, frankly, borderline violent in their rhetoric, even, Van, things they've said about you. I mean, this -- this fellow Cunk Uygur saying that, you know, 'wrap an Israeli flag around you and start calling everyone you see an anti-Semite. Wa la, you're Van Jones.' That is one of Abdul el-Sayed's biggest boosters. So, all these people around the Democratic Party in Michigan, I think, who are going nuts on Haley Stevens tonight, I can easily see why she's struggling."