Dingell: November election isn’t about Hasan Piker

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) on Wednesday expressed her frustration with media coverage surrounding left-wing streamer Hasan Piker and the upcoming Senate race in Michigan.

“But I want to tell you: this is just the opportunity to say something to you, I’m done. This election is about what’s going to happen when we elect Abdul [El-Sayed] to the United States Senate,” Dingell said at a campaign event for El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan. “So, don’t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker, it’s not what November is about.”

“Republicans are trying to make it, they’re trying to divide us, and we got to stop letting them try to divide us. I don’t agree with Hasan Piker on a lot of stuff, and I really don’t agree with him on some of the woman things he said,” she added.

“And we need to win in November, and we will reverse all of the things that they have done,” Dingell said of Republicans.

Piker, who has a history of controversial statements, previously campaigned with El-Sayed. This election season, the streamer has thrown his support behind multiple progressive and democratic socialist candidates, raising his profile on the national political scene.

El-Sayed recently has made moves to distance his Senate campaign from Piker, who has faced backlash over suggesting that backing of Israel by American Jews could result in worse antisemitism.

Piker has also recently faced criticism from more moderate figures in the Democratic Party like Rep. Jared Moskowitz (Fla.) and Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.).

On Sunday, Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) said his party does not stand for what Piker does and went after the streamer’s rhetoric in relation to political violence.

“Piker’s ideology, whether it was seeming to celebrate or at least excuse 9/11, whether it is seeming to excuse the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which I condemned immediately, the Democratic Party does not stand for what Hasan Piker stands for,” Auchincloss said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday.”

However, like Dingell, activist David Hogg expressed frustration with media attention on Piker over the weekend, saying it is “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.