Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed wants everyone to stop talking about his terrorist-supporting, America-hating buddy Hasan Piker, even though el Sayed made Piker a central figure of his campaign.
The latest round of damage control for el Sayed comes after Piker did an interview with Axios, where he said, among other things, that the United States is more terroristic than al Qaeda and that the Middle East would be more stable if Iran had nuclear weapons, among other things. This falls in line with Piker’s typical beliefs, which are that terroristic acts committed against the U.S. are “deserved” (as he said about 9/11), and that destructive, murderous regimes such as Iran or China are grand and heroic.
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When he was inevitably asked about Piker thinking the U.S. is worse than al Qaeda, el Sayed retreated to his now typical response: “I do not agree with this statement, nor do I give much weight to the statements made by a social media streamer.” El Sayed has spent much of the last several weeks dismissing Piker as just a “social media streamer” or a “California streamer,” telling voters that he is instead focused on Michigan’s issues.
Here is the problem for el Sayed: Yes, Piker is a (remarkably unintelligent) social media livestreamer who lives in California. He shouldn’t be relevant to any campaign for the U.S. Senate. But Piker is relevant precisely because el Sayed brought him to multiple campaign events during the Democratic Party. El Sayed saw a “social media streamer” from California and decided to make him the face of his own campaign in Michigan. Piker was el Sayed’s top campaign surrogate up until el Sayed saw that Piker and his “America deserved 9/11” mindset did not poll particularly well among normal voters.
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El Sayed doesn’t get to play this game of making Piker a central figure in his campaign, only to dismiss him as a random voice on social media with no ties to the race. Piker’s terrorist sympathies and hatred of America were made clear for years before el Sayed decided to partner with him. The fact that el Sayed considers him a close ally is undeniably relevant to this race, especially since el Sayed has his own track record of terrorist apologia.
Piker is a possible anchor on el Sayed’s campaign, one that could offset the political advantages Democrats have in a favorable election environment in a blue state. El Sayed knows this, and that is exactly why he desperately wants everyone to forget just how happy he was to embrace Piker and his hateful, moronic audience when he thought it suited him.