2026年4月8日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:11 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：安妮·布赖森
当地时间周二，左翼播客主播哈桑·皮克尔与民主党密歇根州参议院候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德在密歇根州立大学和密歇根大学开展竞选活动，凸显了民主党内部围绕以色列问题的分歧。
鉴于这位热门流媒体主播在以哈战争期间发表的言论，埃尔赛义德选择与皮克尔同台造势的决定引发了整个政治光谱的审视。
皮克尔在流媒体平台Twitch上拥有超过300万粉丝，以时长可达10小时以上的超长直播闻名，积累了大量年轻进步男性受众。
在密歇根州立大学活动前接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻简短采访时，埃尔赛义德回应了与皮克尔共同亮相引发的争议。
“在我看来，这件事本身就是个争议，这足以说明华盛顿特区真正关注的是什么。我不太在意华盛顿的那一套，我关注的是密歇根州的民众，”埃尔赛义德说，“在密歇根州，因为华盛顿发动的战争，人们连给汽车加油都负担不起，不得不承受苦难。总统却在推特上发表针对伊朗的种族灭绝式狂言，还在推特上谈论某栋建筑的窗帘。说到底，我不会从那里获取行动指引。我们的重点是联系那些觉得被排除在政治之外的民众，因为他们无法满足有尊严生活的基本需求。”
埃尔赛义德在8月的初选中面临另外两名民主党对手：众议院议员黑利·史蒂文斯和州参议员马洛里·麦克莫罗。
与埃尔赛义德一样，麦克莫罗也曾称加沙战争为种族灭绝，并表示不会接受亲以色列团体美国以色列公共事务委员会（简称AIPAC）的竞选捐款。然而，史蒂文斯得到了AIPAC的支持，并在其为AIPAC录制的视频中倡导美以持续合作关系。
史蒂文斯、麦克莫罗与反诽谤联盟以及中左翼组织“第三条道路”都批评了埃尔赛义德与皮克尔的交往。
史蒂文斯称埃尔赛义德与皮克尔同台造势的决定“不可接受”，麦克莫罗则告诉《犹太内幕》：“在当前我们州各地都充满痛苦和创伤的时刻，你不应该和皮克尔这样的人一起竞选。”
在同一次采访中，麦克莫罗表示皮克尔“和尼克·富恩特斯这类人并没有太大不同”，因为他“为了获得点击量、浏览量和粉丝而发表极具攻击性的言论”。
皮克尔曾表示，10月7日哈马斯对以色列的恐怖袭击是以色列和美国政府行动的“直接后果”。在2024年5月的一次直播中，皮克尔称，即便有人在10月7日的袭击中遭到性侵犯，“这也无关紧要”，因为这不会改变他对这场冲突态势的看法。
周二，皮克尔回击了那些批评他的民主党人，他称这些人在伊朗局势紧张之际对他横加指责。
“过去两周，很多知名民主党人没有拿出应对唐纳德·特朗普狂热言行的恰当对策，反而选择重复企业捐赠者、外国说客和大捐赠者的论调，其中包括但不限于阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛义德的对手马洛里·麦克莫罗和黑利·史蒂文斯。这正是当今政治的弊病所在，”皮克尔在密歇根州立大学集会上对与会者说道。
密歇根州是美国阿拉伯裔、穆斯林裔和巴勒斯坦裔美国人最集中的州。2020年大选，前总统乔·拜登在阿拉伯人口占多数的迪尔伯恩市获得了69%的选票。然而到了2024年，前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯仅在迪尔伯恩拿下36%的选票。
众议员拉希达·特莱布（其选区包括迪尔伯恩）和众议员黛比·丁格尔（其选区包括安阿伯）也出席了密歇根大学的活动，其中特莱布是进步派民主党人，丁格尔是温和派民主党人。组织者表示，两场活动总计吸引了1200名参与者。
部分密歇根州立大学活动的参与者告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，尽管他们是冲着皮克尔而来，但他们很高兴埃尔赛义德能与他同台造势。
密歇根州立大学大二学生乔伊·康罗伊告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他不会支持接受AIPAC资金的候选人。
“我认为很多人不敢公开反对国外发生的事情，比如伊朗和巴勒斯坦的局势，我作为选民不支持这些行动，”康罗伊解释道，“所以看到像埃尔赛义德这样的人敢于直言，直接谈论巴勒斯坦的局势，真的很令人鼓舞，我愿意支持更多这样的人。”
埃尔赛义德是一位进步派人士，已获得佛蒙特州独立参议员伯尼·桑德斯和加利福尼亚州民主党众议员罗·卡纳的背书，他长期以来一直批评美国对以色列的资助以及参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默等继续支持这一政策的民主党领导人。
来自密歇根州大急流城的与会者安娜·冈萨雷斯表示，埃尔赛义德与皮克尔同台造势是一个“明智的决定”，因为这将吸引更多左翼选民。
“我认为民主党犯的一个错误就是疏远左翼，”冈萨雷斯告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，“他们真正迎合的是更多温和派选民和很多亲以色列的支持者。我认为他们这样做会失去很多我们左翼人士的支持。”
冈萨雷斯20多岁的儿子以西结补充道，民主党领导人似乎不愿与皮克尔这类左翼流媒体主播和创作者互动，但与此同时，民主党却在敦促民主党人更多地与保守派接触。
“当我们看到有人更愿意去西奥·冯和乔·罗根的播客节目，向右翼妥协，然后看到科里·布克说‘我和哈桑·皮克尔划清界限’时，这真切地展现了民主党和左翼建制派的优先事项，他们并不想走进步路线，”以西结说道。
周二的活动举行于特朗普总统宣布与伊朗达成为期两周的停火协议之前，就在数小时前，特朗普还曾威胁“今晚将有整个文明走向毁灭”。
Democratic Senate candidate’s events with Hasan Piker exposes party rift in Michigan
April 8, 2026 / 8:11 PM EDT / CBS News
By Anne Bryson
Division within the Democratic Party over Israel was highlighted in Michigan Tuesday when left-wing podcaster Hasan Piker campaigned with Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.
El-Sayed’s decision to campaign with Piker has drawn scrutiny from across the political spectrum given comments the popular streamer has made on the Israel-Hamas war.
Piker, who has over three million followers on the streaming platform Twitch, is known for marathon streaming sessions that can last upwards of 10 hours. He has amassed a significant following of young, progressive men.
Hasan Piker, left, listens as Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks in a green room before a campaign rally, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP
In a brief interview with CBS News prior to the MSU event, El-Sayed responded to the controversy surrounding his appearance with Piker.
“The fact that this is the controversy to me, says everything we need to know about what D.C. focuses on. I don’t pay much attention to D.C. I pay attention to Michigan,” El-Sayed said. “Here in Michigan, people can’t afford to fill up a tank because of the war that’s being fought out of D.C. and have to suffer. The president is tweeting about his genocidal fantasies in Iran. He’s tweeting about the drapes in a building. So at the end of the day, like, I just don’t take my cues from there. We’re focused on reaching out to people who feel locked out of our politics because they cannot afford the basic needs of a dignified life.”
El-Sayed is facing two other Democrats in the August primary, Rep. Haley Stevens and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow.
McMorrow, like El-Sayed, has referred to the war in Gaza as a genocide and has said she will not accept campaign donations from the pro-Israel group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, better known as AIPAC. Stevens, however, is supported by AIPAC and has advocated for ongoing relations between the U.S. and Israel in videos she’s appeared in for AIPAC.
Stevens and McMorrow, along with the Anti-Defamation League and center-left organization Third Way, have criticized El-Saye’s association with Piker.
Stevens called El-Sayed’s decision to campaign with Piker “unacceptable,” and McMorrow told Jewish Insider, “[Piker] 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.”
In the same interview, McMorrow said that Piker is “not entirely different from somebody like Nick Fuentes,” as he is “somebody who says extremely offensive things in order to generate clicks and views and followers.”
Piker has said the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel was the “direct consequence” of actions by the Israeli and U.S. government. And during a May 2024 stream, Piker said that it “doesn’t matter” if people were sexually assaulted during the Oct. 7 attack as it does not change his view on the dynamics of the conflict.
Piker Tuesday pushed back on Democrats who he says have criticized him amid the Iran war.
“A lot of prominent Democrats spent the last two weeks, instead of developing the appropriate response to Donald Trump’s mania, chose to repeat what corporate donors and foreign lobbyists and big donors had told themselves, including, but not limited to, Abdul El-Sayad’s opponents, Mallory McMorrow and Haley Stevens. And that’s exactly what’s wrong with politics in this day and age,” Piker told attendees at the Michigan State rally.
Michigan has the largest concentration of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian Americans in the U.S. In the 2020 election, former President Joe Biden won 69% of Dearborn, a city with an Arab-majority population. In 2024, however, former Vice President Kamala Harris carried just 36% of the Dearborn vote.
Progressive Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, whose district includes Dearborn, and moderate Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell, whose district includes Ann Arbor, also attended the University of Michigan event. Organizers said the two events drew a combined 1,200 people.
Some attendees of the MSU event told CBS News that while they had come to see Piker, they were glad that El-Sayed was campaigning with him.
Joey Conroy, a sophomore at Michigan State University, told CBS News he wouldn’t support candidates who accept money from AIPAC.
“I think a lot of people have not been comfortable speaking out against things that are happening abroad like in Iran and Palestine, actions I don’t support as a voter,” Conroy explained. “So, seeing people who will speak out against that, like El-Sayed, speaking out directly about what’s happening in Palestine, is really encouraging and I want to support more of that.”
El-Sayed, a progressive who’s been endorsed by independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, has long criticized U.S. funding for Israel and Democratic leaders like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who continue to support it.
Attendee Anna Gonzales, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, said it was a “smart decision” for El-Sayed to campaign with Piker because it will engage more left-wing voters.
“I think one of the mistakes that the Democratic Party makes is estranging the left,” Gonzales told CBS News. “They really cater toward more moderate voters and a lot of pro-Israel supporters. I think that they lose a lot of us on the left when they do that.”
Gonzales’ son, Ezekiel, who is in his late 20s, added that it seems as if Democratic leaders are hesitant to engage with left-wing streamers and creators like Piker, but at the same time the party is pushing Democrats to engage more with conservatives.
“When we have people more willing to go on Theo Von’s podcast and Joe Rogan’s and capitulate to the right, and then we see people like Corey Booker say, ‘I draw the line at Hasan Piker,’ it really shows the priority of the Democratic Party and the establishment on the left not wanting to be progressive,” Ezekiel said.
Tuesday’s events were held before President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, which came hours after Mr. Trump had threatened that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”