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After telling Semafor he has “no plans” to campaign with leading anti-genocide voice Hasan Piker, Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed explains to MS NOW why he is set to campaign Tuesday with President Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris.
El-Sayed claims Harris “understood the challenges with the Biden-era policy toward Gaza going into 2024.”
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Hasan Piker defended Abdul El-Sayed’s decision to campaign with former Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing the appearance could help the Michigan Senate nominee reach older Black voters. Harris is set to campaign with El-Sayed in Michigan on Tuesday.
“Bringing Kamala Harris in to stump for him, specifically to boost his approvals with Black voters, is a good thing… We want Abdul to win… This is not about agreeing with Kamala Harris. It’s not about her positions,” said Piker.
“The question always is: Do you want to win? And if you want to win, you have to do this. Okay? I don’t think it’s a bad idea at all. I think it’s a good idea.”
The move has drawn pushback from pro-Palestinian critics who see campaigning alongside Harris as whitewashing her role as Vice President in an administration that continued supplying Israel with massive quantities of weapons to obliterate civilian life in Gaza for 15 months.
By the administration’s final week, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported nearly 46,600 Palestinians had been recorded killed as Israel’s siege and the US-Israel led campaign against UNRWA drove Gaza into catastrophic hunger. UN-backed experts issued warnings of a “strong likelihood” famine thresholds had already been crossed in northern Gaza in 2024. The area was officially declared in famine later in August 2025.
Harris eventually called for a ceasefire and greater humanitarian relief, but did nothing to break with the Biden administration's policy of unconditional military support for Israel, even as Israeli soldiers filmed and posted footage of their own atrocities in Gaza. The potential 2028 presidential contender has since said the administration should have put more pressure on Netanyahu, but has not repudiated its policy of arming Israel or publicly accused Israel of committing war crimes, despite ICC and ICJ cases.
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the problem with being this deep in the tank for Dems is that you eventually ignore your own principles to get their approval bc they’re a deeply diseased party. here, you’re trampling your record on Gaza and for what? so Kamala Harris can campaign with him? cowardly
