The Editor

Hasan Piker is desperately trying to save face after the midterms. Of the 19 candidates he officially endorsed and tracked, 5 lost their primaries (26%). Most of the rest only won in deep-blue safe seats where the primary was the real contest. By contrast, pro-Israel candidates lost only about 10% of their races, winning 356 of 394 called contests. The candidates closest to Piker’s brand mostly won seats Democrats already held, not the races that decided control of Congress. Piker is small when it comes to political influence on the general American public. This chart makes that clear: he endorsed 19 candidates and got 14 across the finish line, almost all in safe seats. Pro-Israel PACs backed roughly 394 candidates and won 356. The volume difference is the whole story. Piker and socialists like him share an ugly similarity in trying to bring back a socialism and antisemitism reminiscent of nazism in World War II. That’s why pro-Israel endorsements matter. Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people and has a right to exist. If you can’t say that, you shouldn’t hold power in America. This doesn’t mean we need to finance Israel’s wars forever, but they are our ally and must be allowed to defend themselves. What Piker wants is for them to be wiped off the map. That kind of extremism isn’t supported by the American people. This chart proves it. Piker reaches a lot of viewers, and he’s dangerous to American society. His base is unhinged. The way he’s infecting the Democrat Party is something Democrats should be alarmed by. Many in the party are already trying to address it by distancing themselves from him. Piker is trying to stay relevant by branding the Democratic midterms wave as a socialist triumph even though analyses show his far-left flank underperformed relative to the moderates who delivered the majorities. America isn’t an antisemitic or socialist country, and the numbers show his targeted campaign didn’t move the broader electorate the way he claims. Piker focused his endorsements on socialists he thought had a chance in blue districts. He took mostly safe bets. If he had endorsed socialists in less friendly districts, his win percentage would look even worse by better reflecting how America feels about him and his deranged failed ideas. Piker is now acting like he gets to dictate who becomes House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader. He doesn’t. As this chart shows, he had little net positive effect for the Democrat Party on who won. His vulgarity, misogyny, antisemitism, and anti-American narrative make him political poison. He’s a con artist trying to claim influence he doesn’t have. Piker’s approach is to distort perception. He sells socialism as smart while living as a millionaire enriched by capitalism. He makes high income from streams where he pitches the pipe dream of socialism to followers who don’t know the true failed history of what he’s selling. The midterms were a wake-up call for Piker that America doesn’t hate Israel and the Jewish people the way he does. The pro-Israel side got more than ten times as many candidates across the finish line. The midterms were also a wake-up call for Republicans that they need to pass the policies they were elected to pass or get fired. Piker clearly hasn’t learned his lesson or he wouldn’t still be promoting his antisemitic socialist hate. I doubt he’ll ever stop so long as he keeps getting paid handsomely for it by his followers and platforms still immoral enough to allow him to profit off them. The Democrat Party hasn’t learned their lesson because after preaching affordability while campaigning they immediately went to lawfare after they won. The Republican Party needs to be the ones who learn that they can’t get elected on MAGA ideals and then not make them a reality. In 2028 they’ll have another chance to prove that they’re serious. But it’ll take new faces and realistic plans from people who have a history of loyalty and resolve in order to save America.