Rep.Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., demanded reporters stop asking her about Twitch streamer Hasan Piker while campaigning for U.S.
Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Wednesday.During a student town hall with El-Sayed and Rep.Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Dingell opened her speech by calling out the focus on Piker during the Senate race."I am done, so don’t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker," Dingell said.
"It’s not what November is about.Republicans are trying to make it.
They’re trying to divide us, and we got to stop letting them try to divide us.I don’t agree with Hasan Piker on a lot of stuff, and I really don’t agree with him on some of the woman things he said.
And I’m still trying to figure out, is it the reason he exercises and looks buff is why he has so many followers."WHO IS HASAN PIKER? MEET THE FAR-LEFT STREAMER WHO IS STIRRING UP CONTROVERSY AND DIVIDING DEMOCRATSRep.Debbie Dingell was among the latest Democratic politicians who condemned Hasan Piker.
(Getty Images)Dingell reiterated her criticism of Piker while appearing on CNN's "Situation Room" that same day."Look, I’m going to say this to you: I’m tired of people trying to drag me into it.I strongly disagree with many of the things that Hasan Piker has said, from Israel to, quite frankly, if you’re a woman who has fought against sexual violence and domestic violence her whole life, what he has said about rape, etc., is simply inexcusable," Dingell said.
"I don’t understand some of the followers and why they follow people.And I got in trouble when I said, maybe it’s generational, he works out and they say he looks buff.
What he has said is just wrong."She continued, "I think that — what I know that this election’s about in November is being able to reverse the healthcare cuts that we’ve had in this country, the millions of Americans who don’t have healthcare right now, the kids that are already going hungry, and the seniors, because we’ve cut the SNAP program.And w...