Joe Scarborough goes scorched earth on Democrats not separating themselves from Hasan Piker
MS NOW "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough launched a blistering attack on far-left streamer Hasan Piker and Democrats unwilling to distance themselves from his rhetoric Monday, warning the party risked repeating what he viewed as its costly 2024 mistakes after Piker ally Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate nomination.Scarborough, raising his voice and shouting at times, said Democrats were "too woke to call out the obvious" and questioned why party leaders were reluctant to draw a line over Piker's past comments about rape during Hamas' Oct.7 terrorist attack, when he remarked that it didn't matter to him if it occurred."This is about the Democrats once again, fumbling the football on the two-yard line when they have a chance to make great gains, but being so woke, I don't know if you want to call it woke 1, woke 2, or woke 3, but being too woke to call out the obvious!" Scarborough yelled.
"I swear to God.It's really, it's crazy that we're even having this conversation."The Republican National Committee (RNC) has sought to turn El-Sayed's continued relationship with Piker into a general election liability.
RNC national spokesperson Natalie Baldassarre told Fox News Digital Sunday that Democrats' unwillingness to disavow the streamer reflected a broader problem for the party.MS NOW host Joe Scarborough blasted Democrats for refusing to distance themselves from far-left streamer Hasan Piker after Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate primary win.(Getty Images)MARK HALPERIN CALLS HASAN PIKER A 'HORRIBLE PERSON' AS DEMOCRATS FACE PRESSURE TO DISTANCE FROM STREAMER"El-Sayed is a terrorist sympathizer and an America-hating socialist.
His refusal to distance himself from Hamas-hugging radicals like Hasan Piker reaffirms his true allegiance is to terrorist groups, not America.Democrats' refusal to disavow this clown shows they either share his poisonous ideology or they're too cowardly to confront it," Baldassarre said."The Democrat Party is being driven off [...