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Dem Senate primary erupts in key state as candidate teams up with radical streamer: ‘America deserved 9/11’
A Democratic candidate in a crucial Senate battleground showdown is taking plenty of incoming fire from his primary rivals as well as the Republican contender in the race as he prepares to team up on Tuesday with a controversial far-left online streamer.
Abdul El-Sayed, the 2018 Michigan Democratic gubernatorial runner-up who is backed by progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders I-Vt., as he seeks his party’s 2026 Senate nomination, is scheduled to hold campus rallies at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University with Hasan Piker, as well as with progressive Rep. Summer Lee of Pennsylvania.
Piker, a potent progressive influencer, could help boost El-Sayed in a competitive and combustible Democratic Senate nomination race thanks to his millions of younger, progressive social media followers on YouTube, Instagram and X.
But the appearance at the campus rallies by Piker — who once said “America deserved 9/11,” and who critics argue is antisemitic due to his sharp criticism of the Israeli government and the downplaying of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel — is alarming to many Democrats.
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El-Sayed’s top two rivals for the nomination have blasted his scheduled appearance with Piker, which was announced less than two weeks after a man rammed his truck into a Michigan synagogue, wounding a guard in what authorities said was a targeted act of domestic terrorism against the Jewish community.
“It is unacceptable for a candidate wanting to represent all Michiganders to campaign with Hasan Piker, a person who is unapologetic about a career of making hurtful and anti-Semitic comments,” Rep. Haley Stevens said in a statement. “With all that’s at stake in this election, we should be focused on the challenges Michiganders are facing and how to fight for them.”
And State Senator Mallory McMorrow, in an interview with the Jewish Insider, called Piker “somebody who says extremely offensive things in order to generate clicks.”
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“That is not somebody that you should be campaigning with at a moment when there is clearly a lot of pain and trauma across our state,” McMorrow added. “You don’t fan the flames and stoke division just to get attention.”
El-Sayed, Stevens, and McMorrow will face off in an early August primary.
It’s not just El Sayed’s Democratic nomination rivals who are criticizing his decision to team up with Piker.
Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and the Anti-Defamation League have charged Piker is antisemitic and Matt Bennett, a leader of the well-known moderate Democratic group the Third Way, slammed El-Sayed as a “disgrace to the Democratic Party.”
Former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, who’s on a glidepath to the GOP Senate nomination in Michigan for a second straight cycle, told Fox News Digital in a statement, “If you would have told me a few years ago that Democrat frontrunners would campaign with known antisemites, I would’ve thought you were crazy. But one thing Abdul continues to prove, there’s no limit to how far left Democrats will go.”
“From calling to defund the police and make Michigan a sanctuary state, to attempting to abolish private healthcare, and now campaigning with an antisemite who claimed ‘America deserved 9/11,’ one thing that’s for certain: Abdul and the Democrats are too radical for Michigan,” Rogers argued.
In the wake of the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack that incited Israel’s war with Gaza, Piker described Hamas, a terrorist organization, as the “lesser of two evils” in the conflict.
Once, when asked if he supported terrorism, Piker answered by saying, “No, I don’t. I don’t support the state of Israel, and I don’t support the state of the United States of America.”
He also faced backlash for praising the “brave” “mujahideen” who injured Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, who lost an eye in Afghanistan.
“What the f— is wrong with this dude? Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen—a brave f—ing soldier—f—ed his eye hole with their d—?” Piker said.
El-Sayed has repeatedly stood his ground in defending his appearances with Piker. The candidate noted that Piker was allowed by Democrats to stream at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
“It’s about speaking to a broader audience,” El-Sayed said last week in an appearance on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.”
El-Sayed emphasized that “just because you invite somebody to campaign with you or you’re engaging with them does not mean that you agree with them….Every day, 30,000 people and counting tune in to Hassan’s stream. A lot of folks who don’t watch Fox News, they don’t watch CNN, they don’t watch MSNBC.”
The Senate race in Michigan is one of a handful in this year’s midterm elections that will determine if the Republicans hold their 53-47 majority in the chamber. Michigan, where Democratic Sen. Gary Peters is retiring, is one of the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) top targets as they try to not only hold onto their seats, but also possibly expand their majority.
Delta Air Lines announced it is increasing checked bag fees, joining other U.S. carriers as jet fuel prices surge due to the ongoing conflict with Iran sparked by strong U.S. and Israeli strikes.
Delta cited “evolving global conditions and industry dynamics” in announcing the change, which takes effect Wednesday. Fees for travelers’ first and second checked bags will rise by $10, while it will cost $50 more to check a third piece of luggage on domestic and short-haul international flights, the airline said.
The new fee structure is part of “Delta’s ongoing review of pricing across its business,” the carrier said in a statement. The increase represents the first time in two years that Delta has hiked fees for checking bags domestically, the airline noted.
Here are the new rates:
First bag: $45
Second bag: $55
Third bag: $200
Delta SkyMiles Medallion club members, first-class passengers and other eligible customers will still be able to check bags for free, the airline said. Checked-bag rates on long-haul international flights also remain unchanged.
Delta follows United and JetBlue in raising bag check fees since the U.S. and Israel took decisive military action against Iran on February 28. The price of jet fuel has soared dramatically — reaching levels up 132% from last year’s average — as a direct result of the conflict and disrupted oil supplies from the region.
Airlines have no choice but to offset these higher fuel costs by adjusting airfares and, in some cases, adding fuel surcharges to ticket costs. This is the harsh reality of global energy markets when America stands strong against a dangerous regime like Iran’s, rather than appeasing it with weak policies that allowed the threat to grow in the first place.
President Trump’s leadership in confronting Iran head-on is protecting long-term American interests and national security, even as it creates short-term pressures on industries like aviation that rely on stable energy prices. Unlike the previous administration’s approach that left America vulnerable, Trump is delivering the strength needed to deter adversaries.
Travelers feeling the pinch should remember the bigger picture: weak foreign policy leads to chaos, higher costs, and instability. Strong leadership, even when it means taking necessary action against threats like Iran, ultimately makes America safer and more prosperous — despite the temporary adjustments airlines must make in response to these global shifts.
Fly smart, pack light where possible, and support policies that prioritize American strength abroad.
“Law and order” is not an abstract political slogan. Without it, you do not have a civilized society. When law and order breaks down, it is the innocent who pay the price first, whether they live on the South Side, Rogers Park or anywhere in Chicago that we call home. Without it, we do not have community. We have fear and chaos. Without it, we do not have justice. We have death and, in some cases, retaliation.
I’m continuing on my Walk Across America. I was not in Chicago when I heard the news that 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University freshman from New York, was gunned down in cold blood. The man who is accused of killing her is Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan national who entered our nation illegally in 2023. He had previous arrests for shoplifting, and yet he was released onto the streets because our sanctuary politics favor illegal immigrants over law-abiding citizens.
This death comes a year after the senseless death of Katie Abraham in Urbana, Illinois. That 20-year-old girl was sitting in the back of a car at a red light in the middle of the night when a truck driven by an illegal immigrant smashed into her at 80 miles per hour. For over a year, I watched her courageous father, Joe Abraham, do everything he could to warn elected officials that their sanctuary city policies would lead to the death of more innocents.
They ignored him. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker ignored him. They all ignored him.
They valued the White-guilt virtue they believed they gained from allowing illegal immigrants into their city, unvetted and unassimilated. They didn’t care about Katie.
And now Sheridan is dead.
This is not an isolated heartbreak. This is the fruit of a city, and a nation, that has let lawlessness fester.
On the South Side, we have lived with it for years: open-air drug markets, gang shootings that turn playgrounds into war zones and politicians who lecture us about “equity” while the body count rises. We watched as certain criminals were coddled, released and protected while the Black families trying to raise children in peace paid the ultimate price. Now that same infestation of lawlessness has spread. The same lack of order that destroyed so many Black neighborhoods is now claiming the lives of other Chicagoans, young people from every background who simply wanted to walk by our city’s lake without fearing the deadly shock of a bullet.
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What began as a crisis in our Black communities is now a citywide epidemic, proving once more that bad policy has no respect for ZIP codes or skin color. Every Chicagoan deserves a city where the police are empowered, borders are respected and criminals are put in prison instead of being released.
That is exactly why I am still walking these streets and why I am pouring my life into building our Project H.O.P.E. community center on the South Side. I am not building another warehouse for excuses or government handouts. I am building a place that teaches young people the God-given value of work, responsibility and respect for the law.
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I want to welcome free thinkers who understand that safety is not optional and that no community can thrive when certain criminals are placed above the citizens they prey upon. American principles demand equal justice under the law, not justice for some and leniency for others based on political correctness.
To the families of Katie Abraham and Sheridan Gorman, my heart breaks with yours. I am praying for you and standing with you. And to every leader in my city of Chicago who still defends these sanctuary policies while our streets run with blood, I say, repent.
Put the citizens first. Enforce the law without apology. Because until we do, the next victim could be any one of our children, walking any street, at any time.
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