{"id":25258,"date":"2026-11-02T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/02\/us-representative-supports-republican-candidate-democrats-react\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T13:10:16","slug":"us-representative-supports-republican-candidate-democrats-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/02\/us-representative-supports-republican-candidate-democrats-react\/","title":{"rendered":"US Representative&#8217;s Support for Republican Candidate Sparks Democratic Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hailey Stevens, a member of the US House of Representatives, announced her support for Mike Rogers, the Republican candidate, to strengthen Donald Trump&#8217;s position. This decision caused discontent within the Democratic Party. Following this move, Justin German, Stevens&#8217; chief of staff, along with several colleagues, resigned and declared their support for Abdulrahman Al-Sayed, Rogers&#8217; Democratic opponent. German described Stevens&#8217; decision as unpleasant and shocking, emphasizing that the election is more important than party differences. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic minority leader, called the support a betrayal and expressed his solidarity with Abdulrahman Al-Sayed. Stevens had previously criticized Al-Sayed&#8217;s stance against the Zionist regime. Donald Trump, during his campaign rally in Iowa, invited Stevens to join the Republican Party, calling it a smart decision. Trump had also stated before the event that he would contact Stevens to thank her for her support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Hailey Stevens backs Republican Mike Rogers, causing Democratic resignations and backlash, while Trump praises Stevens\u2019 decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}