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Abdul El-Sayed had a simple chance on CBS: look Jewish voters in Michigan in the eye and say, “Yeah, that guy went too far, and I don’t agree with it. ” Instead, when Weijia Jiang asked why he won’t call out Hasan Piker’s rhetoric directly, El-Sayed acted like the question itself was the problem. **If you can’t manage a clean sentence condemning it, people will assume you don’t want to.
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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday pushed back on questions about far-left streamer Hasan Piker, who he previously campaigned with. “There are Jewish voters in your state who are concerned about your relationship with Piker.
You have condemned antisemitism but not called out his rhetoric directly. Why not?” CBS News’s Weijia Jiang asked
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Abdul El-Sayed had a simple chance on CBS: look Jewish voters in Michigan in the eye and say, “Yeah, that guy went too far, and I don’t agree with it.” Instead, when Weijia Jiang asked why he won’t call out Hasan Piker’s rhetoric directly, El-Sayed acted like the question itself was the problem. If you can’t manage a clean sentence condemning it, people will assume you don’t want to.
This isn’t complicated. He campaigned with Piker. That’s a choice. And if you’re running statewide, you don’t get to hide behind general lines about condemning antisemitism while refusing to name the person whose clips are all over the internet. Voters aren’t asking for a dissertation, they’re asking for a boundary. When a candidate won’t draw one, it raises a basic question: what else won’t he say out loud because his online base might get mad?
Michigan is home to real communities that have watched antisemitism spike, often dressed up as edgy “anti-establishment” talk. If El-Sayed wants to be a senator, he should be able to say: I’ll take the votes, but I won’t take the poison. The dodge on Sunday didn’t protect him. It just advertised caution, and not the good kind. A statewide candidate who won’t answer a fair question is telling you how he’ll govern..
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.