# How Israel lies at the heart of Haley Stevens’s striking reversal

https://mins.news/en/item/126019

- The Guardian, 2026-11-02 19:15 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/haley-stevens-israel-aipac

> After losing the Democratic Senate primary, Haley Stevens backed Republican Mike Rogers, whom she had previously criticized as enabling Trump’s agenda. The article says Israel has driven this political reversal, apparently because primary winner Abdul El-Sayed does not share Stevens’s position on Israel.

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