MS NOW Hosts Urge Democrats to Disavow Hasan Piker as His Israel Remarks Roil 2026 Races
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
MS NOW Hosts Urge Democrats to Disavow Hasan Piker as His Israel Remarks Roil 2026 Races
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 17
Summary
Symone Sanders Townsend told Hasan Piker on MS NOW's "Clock It" podcast she would advise any campaign she worked on to "absolutely disavow" him because candidates need distance from figures who hurt their chances of winning.
Piker's clash with Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels centered on both his political usefulness and his rhetoric on Israel, including his repeated view that Israel is worse than Hamas and his defense of that comparison.
Daniels pressed Piker on whether his framing sounded like an endorsement of violence, while Sanders Townsend rejected his analogy between Hamas and anti-police protesters, underscoring the interview's sharp break with him.
2026 midterm stakes are already tied to that tension: Piker has backed Democratic primary candidates, appeared with Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, and recently defended saying he "hate[s] America" as a constitutional right.