Rep. Haley Stevens sat down with Anderson Cooper on Sunday night to explain why she threw her support to Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate fight. She left without ever giving him a straight answer.

The Democrat passed over her own party's nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, who beat her in the primary. The fallout has been swift and she now finds herself frozen out by much of her party.

Cooper opened the roughly 15-minute sit-down with a claim from fellow Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell. Dingell said Stevens told her around midnight that she was not going to back Rogers, so Cooper asked what had happened since then.

"What changed?"

Stevens sidestepped. She said El-Sayed had grown "angrier and angrier" over time and she described the endorsement as a burden lifted from her.

Cooper put the same question to her several more times. Each time she steered around it.

He then pointed out that El-Sayed had said he disagreed with an ad, which critics called antisemitic, that an outside group ran for him. Cooper noted that this was the very thing Stevens had asked El-Sayed to do, so why go with Rogers anyway?

The point did little to move her. The pair went back and forth for several more minutes without Cooper ever pinning her down.

Carville piles on

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville had his own take. On his podcast Sunday he said her career in politics is finished.

"If you think that these Republicans are going to treat you as anything other than what they view you as -- a used condom," Carville said. He went on: "The Democrats don't even think you're worth a used condom."

He kept going with another line: "You made your bed, sleep in it, you s*** in your mess kit, eat it." He even suggested she team up with Sen. John Fetterman to launch a cheeseburger joint.

His remarks have drawn plenty of backlash of their own.

A late reversal

Stevens endorsed Rogers on Sunday, only two days out from Election Day, after earlier backing El-Sayed. Days before, her fiancé Jason Turkish warned she might pull her support unless El-Sayed condemned ads she viewed as antisemitic.

She made the switch once his camp said she wasn't welcome at his events anymore. Democratic leaders have since slammed her move.