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“The malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and antisemitic. There is zero justification for threats against the safety of our Jewish brothers and sisters at a moment of rising hate.”

Posted the afternoon of August 24, after Piker's remarks about Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss circulated. On CNN the next day he called the comments “dangerous, malicious and antisemitic” and said they “should not be tolerated by anyone.”

“Well, I've been very clear in terms of my denunciation of him and the aggressive, in some cases, anti-semitic remarks that he's issued, as have other Democratic candidates all across the country.”

George Stephanopoulos noted that Piker had been “front and center” at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas that week, particularly his comment that America deserved 9/11, and asked how Democrats should handle him. Jeffries restated the August denunciation, this time with an explicit “him,” then pivoted to the party's November candidates (combat veterans, doctors, nurses, firefighters, “and even a smoke jumper in Montana”) without addressing El-Sayed or the convention attacks.

“Blaming American Jews for the hatred, threats, and violence directed at them is something else entirely. It is dangerous, wrong, and antisemitic.”

Posted the morning of August 25. The statement never says Piker's name; left-wing outlets and Piker's defenders read it as aimed squarely at him.

“I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker, I can tell you that right now. If he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I'm out of here. One of us is going to leave. It might even be me.”

Said on Fox News's “The Sunday Briefing” two days before the Michigan primary, as El-Sayed's Piker events became a national story.

“There's two things that I know about Hasan Piker. One, he's an idiot, and two, he's not a Democrat. So, I don't answer for idiots, and I don't answer for people who are not Democrats.”

Said on Fox News's “The Story” on Tuesday, September 1, in a segment Fox wrote up the next day. He added “thank God Hasan Piker doesn't want in our frat, because we don't want him,” and turned on the Democratic Socialists of America: “If you hate the Democratic brand so much, why use our words? Go call yourself something else. Call yourself the Socialists of America.” The August threat to leave the party becomes a claim that Piker was never in it.

“I can give him a two-by-four upside his head because of what he said.”

Asked on CNN's “The Arena” with Kasie Hunt whether he would go on Piker's stream, Emanuel said he would, to deliver a lesson about what the August 20 remarks perpetuate. He drew the line for everyone else too, saying “anybody associated with that rhetoric needs to disassociate with them,” and that “everybody seems to get tongue-tied when it comes to antisemitism, and that to me is unacceptable.” He framed it as a national rather than a partisan failure, arguing that a party that cannot say it about Piker “clearly can't attack people who go around chanting the Jews will not replace us.”

“I find the comments that Hasan made on 9/11 to be objectionable and reprehensible.”

Andrew Cuomo charged that Mamdani “will not renounce Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11.” After months of declining to condemn the remark, Mamdani did, by first name, while defending his primary-season interview on the stream as part of speaking to audiences Democrats do not otherwise reach. Jewish Insider noted that he did not address Piker's broader record.

“A cascading set of antisemitic tropes... deeply antisemitic, consistently, and therefore not someone that should be helping anybody out in the Michigan political environment.”

Told Jewish Insider that Piker's rhetoric disqualifies him as a campaign surrogate in Michigan; in the same cycle she declined to appear on his stream and noted “he calls me stupid like every other week.”

“This shouldn't be hard: no community should face the threat [of] violence for their political views. Period.”

Responded to Piker's remarks about American Jews by invoking the Temple Israel attack in Michigan six months earlier, adding that “blaming the victims of violence for bringing it on themselves only further endangers people.”

“I just want to issue a dare, continue to campaign with Hasan Piker right now. You're in a general election now, I dare you, I dare you.”

Said on Hannity the day after El-Sayed won the Michigan primary, adding that if he were a Republican he would “just dump $20 million” in ads on the association.

“I'm daring him, campaign with this Hasan Piker. You know, I will donate $25,000 to his super PAC for every campaign rally that he does with Hasan Piker.”

The dare acquired a price. On Hannity on Tuesday night, five weeks after the first one, Fetterman offered to pay El-Sayed's own super PAC for every joint appearance, called Piker “his main guy,” said El-Sayed is “in a spiritual union with Hasan Piker, who really thinks that we deserve 9/11,” and framed it as a binary: “So right now I'm daring them. Are they cowards? You know, campaign together. Or condemn them. What are you going to be?”

“I'm offering $50,000 for you to do a rally with Hasan Piker on 9/11, the anniversary, and you can all explain to people why America deserved that 25 years ago.”

He raised the price the next morning on America's Newsroom, naming a date: the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, nine days out. He added another $50,000 for a rally with El-Sayed's half-sister over her October 7 posts, making it a $100,000 double dare. No Democrat has taken either offer, and the El-Sayed campaign did not respond to the reporting.

“Mr. Piker's terrible comments about Jewish people, 9/11, and other areas aren't the kinds of conversations Cory participates in and he will not be joining him on his stream.”

Booker's office answering Newsweek's survey of which Democrats would appear on Piker's stream.

“Piker's dangerous and hateful language targeting Jewish Americans has no place in our civic discourse.”

Statement to Jewish Insider during the wave of condemnations that followed the Moss remarks. A fuller version of the same statement, given to NOTUS, drew the line explicitly: “There is a bright line between vigorous debate and rhetoric that stokes hatred toward our neighbors. Mr. Piker has crossed that line, repeatedly and unmistakably.”

“Blaming Jewish Americans for the violence and hate they're facing is not just wrong...”

Statement to Jewish Insider condemning the remarks Piker made over an image of Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss.

“American Jews and all Americans must have the freedom and security to speak out and petition their government without fear of reprisal.”

Pressed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, his office said Ossoff “unreservedly rejects reckless and dangerous rhetoric suggesting that policy advocacy invites violence against the Jewish community or any community.” Newsweek and the Washington Examiner counted it as a condemnation, and as the second 2028-orbit Democrat after Booker to break; the Washington Times counted it as a refusal, noting that the statement never names Piker, that Ossoff, who is Jewish, said nothing in his own voice, and that he did not rescind his August endorsement of El-Sayed.

“Hasan Piker, who has described Orthodox Jews as “inbred” and a Jewish man as a “bloodthirsty pig,” is the antisemitic voice of a systemically antisemitic platform led by Dan Clancy.”

Sent a letter to Twitch's and Amazon's leadership calling Piker dangerous, then announced it publicly. The letter's language recurs in nearly every later demand that candidates disavow him.

“There is absolutely no justification for antisemitism. There never has been, and there never will be.”

Statement to Jewish Insider during the post-Moss wave.

Introduced H.Res. 1239 with Rep. Mike Lawler, a bipartisan resolution condemning antisemitic rhetoric by influential online personalities that names Piker alongside Candace Owens. It catalogs the “America deserved 9/11” line and the Hamas-Israel comparison. It has not passed.

“There should be one response to those who express hatred toward any American: condemnation. Hate is hate. It doesn't get a pass because it comes from your side of the aisle.”

The essay, published under the headline “I'm a Democrat. My Party Has a Double Standard on Antisemitism,” said Piker “traffics in antisemitic and anti-American extremism that has been met by silence from many on the Democratic left,” and that congressional colleagues have privately told him many of Piker's statements are disgusting but say nothing in public.

“The only one inciting violence against American Jews is Piker and his rhetoric... For the future of our party, Democrats have to call out his hate.”

Issued after the Moss remarks; the next day he told Fox News that El-Sayed's distancing statement “was pathetic and it did not answer the call” because it never condemned Piker.

“Hasan Piker is an antisemite. Nobody should be anywhere near this guy. Nobody should campaign with him or repost him. Frankly, anyone who is quiet right now is complicit.”

The sharpest formulation yet, and the one that turned silence itself into the charge. The same day he renewed his call to pass H.Res. 1239.

“Not only should people not be on stage with him or take his support, they should condemn his views and what he has said. And I think anything short of that is unacceptable.”

Ten days after the wave began, he restated the demand in its strictest form for a Hill survey of the caucus: sharing a stage is not the only line, and declining to condemn fails the test on its own. It is the standard El-Sayed has still not met.

“Hasan Piker is an unapologetic antisemite. Democrats risk losing our credibility to condemn those on the right who traffic in bigotry, antisemitism, & hate when our own Members of Congress & candidates are celebrating or, worse yet, platforming those who espouse hate of any kind.”

Posted after the El-Sayed campus rallies, naming no colleague but sparing none; a companion post warned against letting “those who preach hate & seek division... find safe harbor among us.”

“It is disingenuous for El-Sayed to try to distance himself from Piker without specifically condemning, refuting, or even just rejecting Piker's hateful rhetoric.”

Statement to Jewish Insider after El-Sayed's August 24 distancing statement.

“Piker is a hack who thrives on hate, shock and awe because he lacks substance. It's dangerous for everyone.”

Her office's statement called the targeting of Jeremy Moss, a future congressional colleague, “unacceptable. Full stop.” The statement post drew 1.8 million views in a day.

Asked about El-Sayed, whom she has not endorsed, she said he had “not reached out to me yet. If he would, I would have some questions,” referencing his “past associations” with Piker. It is the cost stated plainly: a Michigan Democrat withholding an endorsement in a Senate race her party needs.

“Has engaged in a level of hate speech that has no place within our party, deeply anti-American sentiments that I think should be condemned roundly by everyone and not embraced by this party.”

Asked whether Piker should play any role in the Democratic Party at all, the Grand Rapids Democrat gave the shortest answer on the ledger: “He's not a Democrat. He's a Democratic socialist. So easy answer, no.” She is the member whose post went out first on August 24, and she has not softened since.

“The Democratic Party does not stand for what Hasan Piker stands for.”

Cited Piker “seeming to celebrate or at least excuse 9/11” and seeming to excuse the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and said “I reject Hasan Piker's ideology.”

“I rejected his rhetoric before his recent call to violence against an American Jew, and now I'll be even more direct: every Democrat needs to be condemning Hasan Piker's hate against Jews.”

Posted the night of August 26, turning his own earlier rejection into a demand on the rest of the party. Piker disputes the characterization: he told Semafor two days later that he was weighing defamation action against Auchincloss over it.

“Hasan Piker is trying to encourage and justify violence against American Jews. And he’s saying that if violence does occur, it’s the fault of those in the Jewish community who publicly support Israel. We faced tougher threats than those of Mr. Piker, who’s literally a piker. We will not be silenced.”

Posted the evening of August 25, five days after the stream remarks about state Sen. Jeremy Moss and in the same wave as Jeffries and the DNC chair.

“Why is anyone platforming a man who advocated raping little girls? No wonder he rejoiced on October 7 when Hamas followed his advice.”

The post links a February 24, 2026 Newsweek write-up of a resurfaced clip from Piker’s 2014 “BroTips” series. Piker has said those videos were satire, that he has since deleted them, and that he was “way more bro-y than I am now.” This file records the charge and the answer without adopting either, and notes that Piker is weighing legal action over it.

“Framing violence against Jewish Americans as something they brought on themselves shifts the blame from perpetrators.”

Statement to Jewish Insider during the post-Moss wave.

“My condolences to @hasanthehun”

His only public post on election night after beating Piker-backed Oliver Larkin 63.5 to 36.5. It drew 4.3 million views.

“Nobody in my district believes that I'm a Hasan Piker guy. Hasan would want nothing to do with me. I want nothing to do with Hasan.”

Told Varney & Co. that Piker and the Democratic Socialists “can't co-exist with me,” and rejected Sen. Rick Scott's claim that he would be beholden to Piker.

“That's the exact opposite of someone I'd be campaigning with.”

Faulted El-Sayed during the primary for “choosing to campaign with someone who has a history of antisemitic rhetoric,” and predicted the affiliation would cost him Michigan.

“I believe he should be condemned. I do... I don't agree with Piker. I don't think he's a part of the Democratic Party.”

Said on NewsNation's “Vargas Reports” after losing the primary; days later on Fox she went further: “it certainly makes sense to get rid of this Hasan Piker affiliation... I'm calling for that.”

“Claims that American Jews are responsible for the violence being committed against their communities are unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. It's dangerous and antisemitic.”

She added that “we must stand up to the scourge of antisemitism wherever it rears its ugly head.” Fox News reported the post on August 25 without printing a timestamp, and the post itself could not be located on a logged-out view of her account, so no original link is cited here.

“A dumb statement.”

His first crack of daylight: called Piker's “America deserved 9/11” line dumb while refusing to cut ties, dismissing the resurfacing as “gotcha politics.”

“Nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople... Antisemitism is a scourge, and we need to address it in all its forms.”

Issued after Piker's remarks about Jeremy Moss. The statement condemns antisemitism and defends advocacy “without fear of violence” but never names Piker, which is exactly what Schneider and Gottheimer attacked the next day.

“Insofar as there are disagreements about foreign policy, my hope is that folks understand where those disagreements align and also understand that that does not come at the cost of Jewish safety.”

At a news conference called to address a rise in Islamophobic rhetoric in Dearborn, he paused to denounce antisemitism and called Judaism “a beautiful faith that rhymes with so much of my own,” referencing earlier conversations with Jeremy Moss. Still no condemnation of Piker by name, which is what Schneider and Gottheimer had demanded that same day.

“No plans.”

The first operational break rather than a rhetorical one: interviewed in Farmington Hills on the Wednesday evening, El-Sayed said he has no plans to campaign with Piker in the general election, after months of joint rallies. He still would not condemn him by name, calling “the effort to make this race about a streamer in LA... actually kind of laughable” and redirecting to groceries and health care. He added that he had not talked to Senate Democratic leadership or the caucus campaign arm about Piker.

“I am not interested in a conversation about a social media person in California.”

Cornered in a hallway at the Michigan Democratic Party’s nominating convention in Lansing, he was asked about Piker by four different reporters and never said his name, calling him “a streamer in California” and “a Twitch streamer in California” and answering that “this is not a serious conversation.” Earlier the same day he apologized to the state party’s Jewish caucus for saying “hurt people hurt people” after the March attack on Temple Israel, telling reporters that “to anyone who feels like my comments might have been hurtful, I’m really sorry.” The apology addressed the synagogue remark, not Piker.

“There’s this massive effort to cancel Hasan. My point is that I don’t do cancel culture. I go everywhere, I talk to everybody.”

The distancing reversed. In his most extensive comments on Piker to date, told to Charlamagne tha God on Monday, El-Sayed said the campaign against Piker was character assassination: “the fact they’re trying to work so hard to character assassinate him suggests there is a disjunct there between what he is actually saying and what people hear him say,” noting Piker “streams for eight hours a day, seven days a week” and gets “clipped out of context.” He said critics were equating Piker with David Duke and Nick Fuentes, added “there are a lot of things he says that I deeply agree with,” and called the backlash an attempt “to confuse and distract us from the actual issue. He never spoke for me, I don’t speak for him, he has his opinion, I have mine.” The “no plans” to campaign together still stands; the condemnation still has not come.

“There are three million people who listen to Hasan. I want to offer them a pathway into an electoral movement.”

On Straight Shooter with Stephen A. he made the audience, not the man, the point of the association: he wants Piker's listeners to hear where he agrees with the streamer and to be offered “a pathway that disavows the things that I disagree with.” Asked by Smith whether anything Piker could say would make him disavow the streamer publicly, he answered “I mean, sure,” while refusing to disavow him categorically over past comments. Smith, who is not an officeholder and so is not on this ledger, told Politico's Dasha Burns the same day that Piker is “going to contaminate the electorate on the left side of the aisle.”

“It's sad. He doesn't really want to talk about any of the issues people are really facing... if he thinks that the issue is a streamer in California, then he's got another thing coming.”

Asked by Kaitlan Collins on “The Source” about Mike Rogers's attacks over the joint appearances, during the week of the Republican convention in Dallas, he did not defend or condemn Piker. Breitbart reports that he turned the question to violent rhetoric at that convention: “when you hear that kind of call to violence, it should be shuddering to all of us.”

“With all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer in California.”

Weijia Jiang asked about his current relationship with Piker, noting that Rogers calls the streamer his running mate; he answered that “when you run for U.S. Senate, you don't actually have one.” She then put it to him that Jewish voters in Michigan are concerned and that “you have condemned anti-Semitism but not called out his rhetoric directly. Why not?” He declined, saying he was “not all that interested in having a conversation about a Twitch streamer” when people cannot afford gas and groceries. His campaign told The National News Desk the next day that “Abdul has always unequivocally condemned terrorism and the September 11 attacks,” calling Rogers's attacks “bad-faith lies.”

“I have not campaigned with Mr. Piker... I don't really know who Mr. Piker is. I've heard about him.”

The morning after winning the primary, a visibly surprised Gayle King pressed: “You don't know who he is?” Nixon said she is “focused on Florida.”

“I don't plan on campaigning with Hasan, if that's what you're asking me. No.”

Asked directly after beating Piker-backed Francesca Hong in the primary, adding: “I don't want to lend credibility to platforms, if you will, that I believe further divide us as a community, further divide Democrats, or further divide this country.”

“Somebody who says extremely offensive things in order to generate clicks and views and followers, which is not entirely different from somebody like Nick Fuentes.”

Piker called the Fuentes comparison “a heinous smear.” After the Temple Israel attack she said Piker “shouldn't be there” on the trail at all.

“We are sick of talking about Hasan Piker. Hasan Piker is not running for anything that I know of.”

The reversal, five months on. Standing beside the primary rival she had attacked over Piker, McMorrow was asked whether El-Sayed needs to disavow him more strongly and answered that the subject is a distraction from health care, echoing his own line: “this is about Michiganders, it’s not about a streamer from California.” She did not retract the Fuentes comparison; the entry stays on the ledger because the March condemnation stands.

“I will not be lectured by a California podcaster about what Oakland County, Michigan's Jewish community should and shouldn't believe.”

Posted under the line “There's no room for extremism in Michigan.” Per Semafor, Moss had been in talks to endorse El-Sayed and instead declined, saying Jewish Michiganders won't be “gaslit that we're responsible for the antisemitic harm upon us.”

“His nonstop drive to demonize the world's sole Jewish state... crosses the line... between criticism and Jew hatred of the ancient variety.”

A long post arguing that attacking Jews for supporting Israel attacks “a core part of their Jewish identity,” and that Piker's rhetoric encourages it.

“He recently campaigned with a communist fanatic who says that America deserved 9/11.”

Said of Abdul El-Sayed while campaigning for South Carolina Republican Darline Graham. Trump never said Piker's name; the communist-fanatic description and the 9/11 line point at the streamer, whose 2019 remark and later walk-back are documented in this site's record. Fairness note: El-Sayed himself never said America deserved 9/11, and no outlet of record has written the remark up; the quote is verified against the clip and the full rally video.

“When I see Abdul El-Sayed campaign around the state with somebody who said that America deserved 9/11, what I see is a man who has sympathy...”

Campaigning for Republican nominee Mike Rogers eight days after the condemnations began, Vance made El-Sayed's joint appearances with Piker a centerpiece and went further than Trump had: “I realize that there's something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today.” Fairness note: the sympathy line as reported trails off, and the site does not extend it; the site's own record shows Piker made the 9/11 remark in 2019 and later apologized for it, and FactCheck.org has separately rated false the related Republican claim that El-Sayed himself believes America deserved 9/11.

“Absolutely DISGUSTING. If Abdul El-Sayed had any courage at all, he would call this out and disavow Hasan Piker once and for all. We're waiting, Abdul...”

Called Piker El-Sayed's “running mate” and the Moss remarks a call for violence. Context the file keeps attached: FactCheck.org and PolitiFact rated false his earlier claim that El-Sayed himself believes America deserved 9/11, and no retraction has been located.

“Abdul has had six months to apologize for his incredibly horrific remarks regarding the Temple Israel attack. Instead, he chose to surround himself with terrorist sympathizers and some of the most notable antisemites in the country. It’s too little, too late, Abdul.”

Posted hours after El-Sayed apologized to Michigan’s Jewish Democratic caucus for his response to the March Temple Israel attack. The same fact-check context applies: PolitiFact and FactCheck.org rated false his earlier claim that El-Sayed believes America deserved 9/11.

“I never imagined that 25 years after 9/11, I would be running against somebody that campaigns with Hasan Piker, who thinks America deserved it.”

Delivered on the convention's closing night, the eve of the anniversary. He repeated the running-mate line from the stage: “Abdul El-Sayed has chosen Hasan as his running mate. Together, they attack America. They excuse extremism. They treat our country like it's the villain.” Fairness note: this version attributes the 9/11 remark to Piker, who made it in 2019 and has called the wording inappropriate, rather than to El-Sayed, which is the claim FactCheck.org and PolitiFact rated false; “running mate” is Rogers's framing, since Senate candidates do not have one.

“Here's Hasan Piker openly saying that Abdul is conning Michiganders with his scripted 9/11 anniversary video.”

Posted the Sunday after El-Sayed's September 11 message (“Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians. Nothing.”), with a video of Piker discussing it. The characterization of what Piker said is Rogers's; this site has not verified the underlying clip or its date, and the original post URL could not be confirmed, so the statement is cited to the reporting. The El-Sayed campaign called Rogers's attempts to misrepresent his beliefs “bad-faith lies meant to mislead Michiganders.”

“Why make Americans subsidize a wealthy private school that invites antisemitic socialists who advocate violence?”

Argued in “Your Taxes Shouldn't Help Platform Hasan Piker” that Yale should lose federal funding for hosting him. In August he claimed whoever wins Moskowitz's seat would “vote the way Piker tells them to vote,” which Moskowitz flatly rejected.

Introduced H.Res. 1239 with Gottheimer condemning antisemitic rhetoric by online personalities, naming Piker and Candace Owens. The bipartisan cosponsor list includes Democrats Wasserman Schultz, Moskowitz, Scholten, and Schneider and Republicans Stefanik, Garbarino, Bacon, and Gimenez.

“Piker knew Charlie Kirk. He shared the stage and debated him civilly, yet that familiarity didn't stop him from cavorting across the stage mocking Charlie's murder. If this doesn't expose the pure inhumanity of these radical communists, nothing will.”

Posted at 10:22 a.m. on August 23 from his official office account, quoting the clip of Piker singing “We Are Charlie Kirk” at the August 21 San Francisco tour opener. The premise that Piker mocked the murder is contested: Piker condemned the assassination when it happened, had been scheduled to debate Kirk days later, and after the show argued that conservatives objecting to a meme song had celebrated other killings.

“Democrats hate America and dogs, but love Hasan Piker, a self-avowed jihadist and dog abuser. What the hell is wrong with these people?”

Posted at 6:01 p.m. to promote an interview published the day before, in which he said “the Democratic Party has wholeheartedly embraced Muslim terror. Hasan Piker espouses Muslim terrorism, and we should not be surprised that he tortures his dog,” and that “the fact that Democrats will now embrace the most depraved, sick, monstrous ideology tells us everything we need to know about the November election.” Context this file keeps attached: Fine’s own rhetoric about Muslims is part of the record. Addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition summit in Las Vegas on August 30, where speakers cast the midterms as a fight against the Democratic Socialists of America and criticized Piker, he denounced what he called the rise of Islam in America, asking “where are the so-called moderate Muslims in our political system?” and saying “the fact that not all Muslims are bad does not mean that no Muslims are bad.”

“By the way, this evil man pals around with people who believe Americans deserved to be attacked on 9/11. Think about that for a second. In other words, El-Sayed's closest friend believes nearly 3,000 Americans deserve to die on that fateful day 25 years ago.”

Said of El-Sayed on the convention's opening night, in a speech that also named Rep. Ilhan Omar. He followed it with: “Someone might want to remind these guys, if you don't love this country, if you don't love America, if you're not happy here, then get the hell out!” Emmer never said Piker's name; the 9/11 reference points at the streamer. Fairness notes: “closest friend” is Emmer's characterization, not a documented relationship; Piker has called his 2019 wording inappropriate; and Al Jazeera described the speech as “falsehood-laden” and noted that El-Sayed was born in the United States.

“El-Sayed's biggest booster, a man named Hasan Piker, he said, and I quote: 'America deserved 9/11.' Well, ladies and gentlemen, my mom has a saying: 'You are who you hang with,' and let me tell you, Hasan Piker is who Abdul El-Sayed hangs with.”

Delivered on the convention's second night, the day before the 25th anniversary of the attacks, as one of several speakers who tied El-Sayed to Piker. Fairness note: Piker made the remark in a 2019 stream, later called it inappropriate, and has said he was making a point about U.S. foreign policy; “biggest booster” is McClain's description of a streamer who campaigned with El-Sayed through the primary and with whom El-Sayed told Semafor in August he has no plans to campaign in the general.

“A Hamas-hugging radical with a long history of threatening rape and violence against those he disagrees with.”

RNC spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre's August description of Piker while demanding Democrats formally disavow him. The NRSC had spent the spring pressing Ossoff over Piker's “dark-horse” praise, and its X account originally posted the 41-second “lynchings” compilation that Snopes later found deceptively edited.

On the opening day of the party's first midterm convention, a video played on the arena screens that cast Democrats as communists in an ideological war included, briefly, a photograph of Piker in his underwear, presenting him as the face of the other party. Newsweek reported that the RNC did not respond to a request for comment. Piker watched the footage on his stream and laughed it off. Over the next two nights speakers from Tom Emmer to Lisa McClain to Mike Rogers made him a recurring theme; their remarks are logged on their own entries.