{"id":102279,"date":"2026-08-29T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=102279"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T07:09:02","slug":"with-republicans-on-attack-democrats-wary-of-influencer-hasan-piker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/with-republicans-on-attack-democrats-wary-of-influencer-hasan-piker\/","title":{"rendered":"With Republicans on attack, Democrats wary of influencer Hasan Piker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, United States: With the approach of US midterm elections in November and facing the possibility of losing control in both houses of Congress, Republicans are training their fire on a left-wing influencer who has emerged as a liability for Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am done! So don\u2019t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker. It\u2019s not what November is about,\u201d snapped congresswoman Debbie Dingell of Michigan at a reelection rally on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are leery of Piker, a popular online commentator who has been accused of anti-Semitism, worried he will distract from their criticism of President Donald Trump\u2019s economic record.<\/p>\n<p>AFP this week spent several hours following Piker\u2019s live program on Twitch, where he streams daily to three million followers.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in a suit and tie, the 35-year-old launched into a lengthy monologue, riffing on viewer comments, discussing video clips, weighing in on current events and repeatedly attacking Israel.<\/p>\n<p>His tone and style were similar to those of far-right streamers who helped propel Trump to a second White House term \u2014 but unlike them, he identifies as a \u201csocialist\u201d and \u201canti-imperialist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, United States: With the approach of US midterm elections in November and facing the possibility of losing control in both houses of Congress, Republicans are training their fire on a left-wing influencer who has emerged as a liability for Democratic candidates. \u201cI am done! So don\u2019t any reporter ask me again about Hasan Piker. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":102297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102298,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102279\/revisions\/102298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}