{"id":2664926,"date":"2026-09-19T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-even-morning-joe-couldnt-help-but-call-out-abdul-el-sayed-for-his-disingenuous-attempt-to-dismiss-radical-connections\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T14:59:58","slug":"watch-even-morning-joe-couldnt-help-but-call-out-abdul-el-sayed-for-his-disingenuous-attempt-to-dismiss-radical-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-even-morning-joe-couldnt-help-but-call-out-abdul-el-sayed-for-his-disingenuous-attempt-to-dismiss-radical-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Even &#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; Couldn&#8217;t Help But Call Out Abdul El-Sayed for His &#8216;Disingenuous&#8217; Attempt to Dismiss Radical Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-even-morning-joe-couldnt-help-but-call-out-abdul-el-sayed-for-his-disingenuous-attempt-to-dismiss-radical-connections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2664926&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Abbott and Costello. Bert and Ernie. Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it: Three duos that basically don\u2019t work without the other half. Unfortunately for El-Sayed, a radical with a thin public service resum\u00e9 who managed to win the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan based in large part on getting a boost from the \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11\u201d Twitch streamer, he now has to pretend that the other half of the duo doesn\u2019t really exist.<\/p>\n<p>But as an El-Sayed interview this week with MS NOW\u2019s Joe Scarborough showed, that isn\u2019t going to be easy \u2014 and it shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<p>As you\u2019ve probably heard if you\u2019re paying attention to the Michigan campaign, where Republican nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-defends-el-sayed-9-11-condemns-gop-opponent-mike-rogers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Mike Rogers<\/a> is using the Piker alliance to great effect, El-Sayed is hiding behind the fact that a \u201cstreamer from California\u201d whom he just happened to campaign with shouldn\u2019t be a big deal. He agrees with some things the guy says, he doesn\u2019t agree with everything. He doesn\u2019t have much connection to him and Piker certainly wasn\u2019t instrumental in his win.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on \u201cMorning Joe\u201d on Friday, El-Sayed continued this line \u2014 even though Scarborough, to his credit, wasn\u2019t really buying it, particularly since Piker is again in the news for saying that al Qaeda is better, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hasan-piker-doubles-america-hate-says-us-bigger-terror-group-al-qaeda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pound for pound<\/a>,\u201d than the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have said, though, \u2018Oh, he\u2019s just a California streamer.\u2019 He was a California streamer who\u2019s actively engaged in your primary campaign,\u201d Scarborough said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s disingenuous just to call him, like, a \u2018California streamer\u2019 when you know the guy, you campaigned with the guy, he was a big part of your campaign?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t a big part of my campaign. We had him to Michigan once,\u201d El-Sayed said.<\/p>\n<p>This is only slightly true: While Piker did a campaign stop with El-Sayed in Michigan once, El-Sayed also spent the night before the primary at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/03\/abdul-el-sayed-ends-michigan-campaign-at-detroit-pool-party-with-hasan-piker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pool party<\/a> where Piker was the guest of honor \u2014 albeit a party that wasn\u2019t hosted by the campaign, but might as well have been.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed spent the night before Tuesday\u2019s crucial Democratic primary at a pool party with far-left streamer Hasan Piker \u2014 a figure who has praised Mao Zedong, said \u201cAmerica deserved 9\/11,\u201d and made controversial comments about Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The event in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zMGiwiIvsD\">pic.twitter.com\/zMGiwiIvsD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/foxnewspolitics\/status\/2084745288380752115?\">August 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deflection continued: \u201cI\u2019m on your show, Joe, because I want to talk to the audience who\u2019s watching you right now,\u201d El-Sayed told Scarborough. \u201cAnd the problem in our democracy too often is we say who we cannot talk to, rather than asking, \u2018How do we bring these folks back into an electoral fold?\u2019 There are some things [Hasan Piker] has said that I agree with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That, again, is profoundly disingenuous, again, considering that Piker has said we deserved the 9\/11 attacks, that the street should run red with the blood of landlords, that Donald Trump had an assassination coming, and other such faux pas that can\u2019t just be ignored because the guy says a lot of stuff on Twitch and, you know, weird things come out when you\u2019ve been on camera for eight hours. Even in short-form interviews, he comes across this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udc40 NEW: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hasanthehun?\">@hasanthehun<\/a> joins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp?\">@alexthomp<\/a> on the Season 3 premiere of The Axios Show in what Piker called \u201cthe most contentious interview\u201d he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p>Piker claims that \u201cpound for pound,\u201d America conducts more terror around the world than al-Qaeda. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c8xFVvbixl\">pic.twitter.com\/c8xFVvbixl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Axios (@axios) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/axios\/status\/2100541525356609781?\">September 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In a new NYT interview, Hasan Piker says that many \u201cunderstand\u201d Luigi Mangione killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson because Thompson himself was guilty of \u201csocial murder\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4f9bPdsxU5\">pic.twitter.com\/4f9bPdsxU5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pirate Wires (@PirateWires) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PirateWires\/status\/2047027303306363352?\">April 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So yeah, not just something El-Sayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/el-sayeds-terrible-no-good-weekend-forced-apologize-jewish-community-attempts-erase-ties-hasan-piker\/\">can wave away<\/a>. Scarborough being Scarborough, he spotted El-Sayed the fact that even Ronald Reagan, during his first runs for office in California, said \u201che had a Bircher problem\u201d \u2014 as in members of the ultra-conservative <a href=\"https:\/\/jbs.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Birch Society<\/a>, which was still quite active back then, supporting his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I totally get that,\u201d Scarborough said. \u201cI\u2019m just saying, if you just call him a \u2018California streamer,\u2019 that seems to minimize what he did in the primary. That\u2019s the only thing I\u2019m asking you. Do you think that minimizes that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed\u2019s answer in TL;DR form: Uh, gas prices. Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s my issue at the end of the day, right? He is a streamer in California. And the issue that everybody\u2019s focused on is the price of gas and groceries in Michigan,\u201d El-Sayed said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, you\u2019ve got a guy like Mike Rogers who literally goes to Dallas instead of showing up to a debate in Detroit to campaign with Donald Trump, who not only says crazy stuff every day but does crazy stuff that costs you money \u2014 the tariff war, the war in Iran. And so it\u2019s frustrating to me that I never hear about Hasan Piker on the doors. I never hear about him outside of conversations that are had like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Even MS NOW calls out Abdul El-Sayed for trying to distance himself from Hasan Piker after campaigning with him:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you think its disingenuous to call him a California streamer when you know the guy, you campaigned with the guy, he was a big part of your campaign?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2opXuIPF8a\">pic.twitter.com\/2opXuIPF8a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/2100946173070618646?\">September 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At that point, Scarborough reverted to his MS NOW form and appeared to let El-Sayed off the hook, implying that it\u2019s Republicans who are being disingenuous by using Piker as a straw man to attack the Democratic candidate (\u201cbullsh*t\u201d was the word he used), but even MS NOW viewers should have seen enough by then to figure out the truth.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who missed it, the primary to replace outgoing Democratic Sen. Gary Peters featured a bunch of candidates, including a more accomplished progressive, Mallory McMorrow. El-Sayed had a limited record as a Wayne County health official and some success campaigning within Michigan\u2019s not-insignificant Muslim community, but not a lot to recommend him to voters aside from that. Polls demonstrated that.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Piker got involved. Yeah, he was a lightning rod \u2014 but if this primary season has taught us anything, it\u2019s that lightning rods are perfectly fine with the Democratic base. McMorrow dropped out and El-Sayed eked out a victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/look-michigan-dems-choose-senate-extremist-backed-physician-isnt-physician-crazy-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marginally sane U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after securing the nomination due to the Piker vote \u2014 young, progressive, and America-hating \u2014 he now has to win a general election where that doesn\u2019t resonate. So while Piker\u2019s in the background effectively saying that of course El-Sayed has to distance himself from a \u201cTwitch streamer in California,\u201d he\u2019s still not just a Twitch streamer in California but a mouthpiece for the base that got El-Sayed into this position in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>As duos go, El-Sayed wants us to think that this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/calvinandhobbes\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calvin and Hobbes<\/a>, and that Piker is Hobbes: Totally real during the primary process, but an imaginary friend somewhere out there in the fake world of social media during the election. Michigan voters shouldn\u2019t buy it. 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