Ep. 2049 - WATCH: Abdul El-Sayed STRUGGLES Over Hasan Piker Controversy

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**Michael Knowles** (1:20)
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I'm on the road in Europe working on a special secret project that I can't talk about just yet. I'll be back in a couple of days in the studio. In the meantime, we've got lots of great content coming out, but I had to pipe in from the old world in order to talk about this story. Just briefly before I hit the trail again, this involves the campaign trail.
The story is that the struggling of Abdul El-Sayed, the Senate candidate in Michigan, is working. It is clearly getting to him, tying Hasan Piker to the mainstream left-wing candidates is working. It's not that hard to do. They've actually tied themselves to Hasan Piker. But here is Abdul El-Sayed at his wits end being asked about Piker on the trail.

**Abdul El-Sayed** (2:16)
I am not interested in a conversation about a social media person in California. And for folks who want to make this race about a social media person in California, let's not forget what actually matters to politics, what our politics really are about. I don't ever want my comments to hurt anybody's feelings. It's important to me that people understand that I take seriously the pain of all communities in this state.
But I don't want to have a conversation about a Twitch streamer in California. It's just not a serious conversation. Why did you?

**Michael Knowles** (2:42)
It's just not, come on, it's not a serious conversation. Why are you asking me this random Twitch streamer?
Well, because you've been campaigning with him. Not even just once. Look, in politics, if you show up to an event, there's a photo line, you're mingling, you take a picture, people find a picture of you with some total wacko. Okay, that happens once at an event with hundreds or thousands of other people. That's one thing.
Abdul El-Sayed has campaigned with Hasan Piker multiple times, including recently. He shows up to events, he gets Hasan Piker to come on out to Michigan. This is not just a random Twitch streamer in California. This guy is the de facto intellectual leader of the Democrats, of the American left. I'm thrilled about that, because I think that makes Democrats look bad, and it's going to make it harder for them to win in November and in 2028 But I didn't make them do that.
They did that. Okay, and Hasan Piker, Hasan Piker is so successfully allowing the Democrats to be struggled right now, that he is kind of being struggling, struggled himself. Here is Hasan Piker trying to walk back, you know all the comments. He said that Republican senators should be murdered, that the streets should run red in capitalist blood, that America deserved 9-11. He's got a picture celebrating 9-11 behind him. Here's another one. They're trying to, we are trying to tie the Hasan Piker issue around the Democrat candidates, and in part, it comes all the way down to the fact that he obviously hates America. So now Hasan Piker comes out, he says, I do not hate America.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:20)
It is completely ridiculous. It's laughable to say guys like myself, guys like Abdul El-Sayed, we hate America. I say I hate America all the time. A lot of motherf**kers want to kill me over that take, but at least I say it with my f**king chest, people will be like, Hasan, you hate America. I'm like, yeah, I do. I do hate America.