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Haley Stevens answers Trump's praise with an impeachment reminder

Forbes Breaking News shares Anderson Cooper's questioning of the Michigan Democrat over her endorsement of Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 118,651 views a day, 19 times a normal first day on this channel (6,216).

Haley Stevens Reacts After Trump Praises Her For Endorsing Mike Rogers Over Abdul El-Sayed

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0:08Stevens answers Republican praise by recalling her votes to impeach Trump twice.
1:23Cooper questions why Stevens changed her position after previously endorsing El-Sayed.
2:12Stevens asks whether Cooper posed a question; he says he was waiting for her to fill the silence.
2:47Cooper asks about a conversation with Debbie Dingell; Stevens does not confirm it before the interview ends.

"Well, I impeached him twice," Haley Stevens tells Anderson Cooper when asked about praise from Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson. Her answer looks back at her opposition to Trump while she defends a decision that puts her alongside him in Michigan's Senate contest.

Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers over Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who defeated her in the Democratic primary. The CNN interview, conducted Sunday and shared by Forbes Breaking News on Monday, moves from the Republican praise to Cooper's questions about why she changed her position after previously endorsing El-Sayed.

Cooper leaves a silence. "Was that a question, Anderson?" Stevens asks. He replies: "No, I wanted to see if you wanted to fill in the silence, but you don't."

Later, he asks whether Stevens told fellow Michigan representative Debbie Dingell that she would not attend an event. Stevens criticizes his editorializing and describes attending a Sunday church prayer service instead. The interview ends without her confirming the conversation with Dingell.

The upload drew about 76,000 views in its first ten hours, an unusually fast start for Forbes Breaking News. Interest extends beyond this exchange: the channel's upload of El-Sayed taking reporters' questions alongside Elizabeth Warren and Dingell also drew a much larger early audience than usual. Separate clips cover Stevens facing reporters about the endorsement and acknowledging staff resignations.