Hasan Piker To His Democratic Haters: Good Luck

Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer with 3 million followers, has become a fixture on Fox News — mentioned more than 180 times in a week — as Republicans cast him as proof of the Democratic Party's leftward lurch. Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat, has made attacking Piker a centerpiece of his general-election message, calling him an admirer of Mao Zedong.

Piker told HuffPost he considers the attention a sign of Republican desperation rather than a serious electoral strategy, though he acknowledged Moskowitz is running in a Republican-leaning seat and it 'might work.' He had backed Moskowitz's socialist primary rival and says he holds no particular stake in the general election beyond preferring any Democrat to any Republican.

Sen. Rick Scott claimed on Fox that Democratic primary voters simply 'vote the way Piker tells them to,' an assertion offered without evidence. The controversy follows progressive Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate primary win, after which Republican nominee Mike Rogers falsely claimed El-Sayed believed 'America deserved 9/11' — a claim Factcheck.org rated false.

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