Democrats are eating their own — and Sen. John Fetterman is the target for refusing to embrace a Michigan Senate candidate who campaigns alongside an influencer claiming America deserved 9/11.
Fetterman drew a hard line when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked how Democrats should unite to defeat Republicans. His answer was blunt.
“I can’t come together with someone if you are willing to embrace people that love Hamas or that think America deserved 9/11,” Fetterman said.
He was referring to Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who has been campaigning with Hasan Piker — a far-left streamer who literally said America deserved the September 11 attacks.
Fetterman won a competitive Pennsylvania race. He votes with Democrats on every economic issue. But his crime in the eyes of the party’s radical wing? He supports Israel and refuses to bow to Hamas apologists.
“You put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different.”
That’s El-Sayed’s exact words on a Zoom call — threatening to primary Fetterman if he wins his Michigan race.
El-Sayed went further, saying he’s “looking forward” to primarying sitting senators who don’t fall in line. He dismissed the Senate tradition against primaries with a taunt: “Like, watch me do it.”
The full quote reveals the stakes El-Sayed sees: “If I win, you’re just like, well, you all came at me, so now I get to come at you and primary people like John Fetterman. I have no problem with that… You’re gonna spend 60 million to beat me, two can play at that game.”
Jon Stewart joined the pile-on, attacking Fetterman on his show. Stewart blamed Fetterman for the party fracture instead of the radicals embracing anti-American rhetoric.
“Why are you blaming them when in some ways you could be blaming yourself and your colleagues?” Stewart asked.
Fetterman didn’t back down. “When we have people winning elections, saying absurd kinds of positions that were absolutely toxic back in 2020 — stop saying these kinds of extreme things that are not workable in the real world. Don’t we want to win?”
Bernie Sanders also defended the coalition with Piker. When asked if he was comfortable associating with someone who said America deserved 9/11, Sanders called it a “dumb statement” — then immediately excused it.
“On the other hand, he has a whole lot of followers, and there’s a lot of things that he’s saying that are making sense to a lot of people,” Sanders said. “I think, you know, we have to get above cancel culture.”
Sanders added that people “say dumb things” during long podcasts and the party needs to “look at the totality of where people are coming from.”
Piker, meanwhile, lashed out at Democrats who won’t support El-Sayed, calling them “unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of sh*t.”
He accused critics of calling El-Sayed “a terrorist for months on end” and a “fake doctor” despite El-Sayed holding multiple degrees. Piker demanded unity: “Do you want to f*cking win or not? Lock the f*ck in.”
Piker is the same influencer who wore Chairman Mao’s uniform on camera — celebrating one of history’s worst mass murderers.
The real story isn’t Piker or even El-Sayed. It’s the Democratic Party’s willingness to fellow-travel with anti-American radicals to hold power.
Fetterman called out the toxicity. His reward? Threats of a primary challenge and condemnation from party leaders desperate to keep the coalition together — no matter the cost.
