David Hogg: Media focus on Hasan Piker ‘kind of weird’

Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker “kind of weird.”

“To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he’s a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there’s a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible thing[s],” Hogg told left-wing media personality Jack Cocchiarella, discussing the recent national spotlight on Piker.

Hogg added later that he believed “that it’s fascinating that people are so obsessed with a streamer that the median voter knows nothing about.”

“You know, that’s not to diss Hasan, I think he would probably agree with me, generally, that like they don’t — they don’t know who he is,” Hogg continued.

“And I think it speaks to the fact that a lot of moderates in our party don’t have an actual vision that they are fighting for other than the center, because they’re constantly repositioning themselves on the political spectrum to say, ‘You know, I’m going to be in the middle,’ but the middle is always changing,” he said. “And instead, what people are looking for is somebody that actually offers a new vision.”

Hogg’s comments come in the wake of Piker’s dramatic rise in the last few months, as the streamer has had on his stream multiple left-leaning candidates who have taken down more establishment or long-term figures in Democratic primaries.

The streamer campaigned with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who won his race against Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) earlier this month.

In response to Piker’s recent comments about Michigan House candidate Jeremy Moss, El-Sayed on Monday issued a statement on the social platform X that “nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople.”

Piker has a history of controversial statements , including saying in 2019 that “America deserved 9/11” as blowback against the U.S. because of its military campaigns worldwide. However, the streamer recently said he could’ve better phrased his comments about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

More moderate Democrats, like Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), have gone after Piker in recent weeks.