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The day after Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, Politico’s Adam Wren caught up with streamer Hasan Piker, who had appeared with El-Sayed during the primary.
That is literally the dumbest thing El-Sayed could do. Piker is, at root, a provocateur. His claims that America deserved September 11 or that everyone who voted for Rep. Haley Stevens on Tuesday is an Islamophobe might get him lots of clicks, but it is poison for a Democratic politician trying to win a general election in a swing state in the Midwest (or anywhere).
El-Sayed’s association with Piker is already being used by former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers:
At a minimum, El-Sayed should issue a statement — like TODAY — saying that while he and Piker know one another, he disagrees with much of what the streamer says and that Piker will not be associated with the campaign in ANY way.
Even better would be if El-Sayed, maybe as soon as next week, gave a sort of “Sister Souljah” speech in which he tried to define what he believes — and drew a very bright line between that and what the Pikers of the left are saying about Israel (and many other topics).
Matt Lewis and I talked about the onus on El-Sayed to find some distance from the loony left in our weekly Substack Live chat. We also broke down the series of scandals surrounding House GOP members at the moment and how Trump has changed the culture for the worse. We also figured out that we are both deeply romantic about baseball — even though it’s getting harder and harder to feel that way these days.
