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This Is Who the Democrats Are: Abdul El-Sayed Just Refused to Condemn Hasan Piker's Hateful Rhetoric

Amy Curtis
Amy Curtis  |  April 08, 2026 9:30 AM

We've told you quite a bit about Hasan Piker, the Twitch streamer and social media influencer who hates America, Israel, and capitalism. Piker wants capitalists killed, and he attacked a Vietnamese woman who escaped communism in a vulgar tirade. He also thinks America deserved 9/11, and had no problem with the rape of Israeli women by Hamas — an actual war crime.

Yesterday, he attended a campaign event with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Here's more on that from WKAR:

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is defending his decision to campaign with progressive influencer Hasan Piker, who some moderate Democrats have criticized for making comments about Israel’s war in Gaza they characterized as antisemitic.

El-Sayed said appearing with Piker, who has millions of followers, allows him to reach people who might otherwise not participate in the political process.

“If we're serious about building a politics that unlocks for the folks who feel locked out, then you've got to be serious about going to the places where they naturally are,” El-Sayed said.

El-Sayed said he started his day appearing on Fox News before campaigning with Piker in East Lansing and Ann Arbor.

This makes it clear that El-Sayed supports and agrees with the things Piker says, and El-Sayed was even asked about whether or not he disagrees with Piker on anything.

Check out El-Sayed's answer:

"I'm not here to disavow people's views," El-Sayed said after laughing at the question. "I'm here to have a conversation about how to get money out of politics and put it back in the pockets and pass Medicare for All. That's the conversation that folks are to listen to. This whole goch game, platform policing, cancel culture, I thought we were over it."

Ah. So now that the Right is playing by the Left's cancel culture rules, Democrats like El-Sayed want to move on from it. They ruined people's lives for years, said it was "justice."

The entire party is insane.

It's not so secret anymore, either.

This.

Hasan is (D)ifferent, of course. And there are one set of rules for Democrats and another for the rest of us. If the parties were reversed, the Republican candidates would be hounded to disavow and ostracize a conservative influencer, and every Republican from Sioux Falls to Sarasota would be condemned.