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Influence file · subject Hasan Piker 19 files · 12 statements

HIS ENDORSEMENTCOMES WITHA RECORD.

He brings millions of followers, fundraising, volunteers, and years of statements candidates are betting voters will overlook. HasanBacked connects the endorsements to the complete public record, and puts each candidate’s positions next to the party they claim.

  • 145 primary record
  • 9 states
  • 38 documented party-line breaks
  • 118 unique sources
PLAYING01/122019 · 9/11 & FOREIGN POLICY
Hasan Piker · “America deserved 9/11”
HIS RESPONSE

He later called the wording inappropriate and has repeatedly said he did not mean that American civilians deserved to die.

WHAT THE
ENDORSEMENT
DELIVERS
DOCUMENTED EXAMPLES / 2026
01 · FUNDRAISING$56K

Raised for Oliver Larkin through one Piker livestream.

WIRED ↗
02 · TURNOUTPACKED

Campus crowds in Michigan put young-voter enthusiasm on display.

AP ↗
03 · ORGANIZING10

Candidates on the NYC-DSA slate rallied under one closing message.

THE INDYPENDENT ↗
04 · THE PRICESPLIT

Fetterman, Carville, Slotkin, and Third Way attacked Democrats for standing next to him.

FORBES ↗
19VERIFIED
CANDIDATE FILES
14ADVANCED TO
NOVEMBER
05LOST THEIR
PRIMARY
101SOURCE LINKS
ATTACHED

Every label needs a date.
Every claim needs a receipt.

Scoreboard

THE
RECORD.

Wins and losses by race type and by kind of support. Outcomes come from election authorities or AP; the connection labels come from the files.

PRIMARY RECORD · ALL FILES
14ADVANCED/5LOST

74% of the files survived their primary. Piker’s record looks strong until you separate the deep-blue New York districts from the contested races.

FEDERAL RACES (HOUSE / SENATE)
7ADVANCED/3LOST

10 congressional or Senate files. 3 of them unseated a sitting Democratic incumbent: McKinney, Kiros, Chevalier.

STATE RACES (LEGISLATURE / GOVERNOR)
7ADVANCED/2LOST

Mostly the New York City DSA slate: one rally, ten Assembly and Senate files, nine wins in districts where the primary is the election.

BY TYPE OF CONNECTIONHOW THE CAMPAIGNS HANDLED HIM
  • embraced16 put him on their own stage, page, or event listing
  • mixed3 kept the appearance and said his views are his own
  • distanced0 cancelled or disavowed

Only one file rests on an explicit, on-the-record endorsement. The rest are rallies, canvasses, and fundraising streams. The same support, delivered without the word.

THE LOSSES · 5

What they have in common

THE
PATTERN.

Eight litmus issues where the national Democratic Party has a stated position. Each bar counts the files with a documented, sourced departure from it.

18of 19 files hold at least one documented break from the national party position
12hold two or more
2average documented breaks per file (of 8)
  1. DSADemocratic socialist / DSA-endorsed
    12/19
  2. Single-payerMedicare for All (single-payer)
    6+1/19
  3. vs. incumbentRan against a sitting Democratic incumbent
    6+1/19
  4. Abolish ICEAbolish or defund ICE
    5+2/19
  5. Israel aidArms embargo / end unconditional military aid to Israel
    4+6/19
  6. Anti-AIPACNames AIPAC / pro-Israel lobby as an adversary
    3+1/19
  7. Police / prisonsDefund/reallocate police or prison-abolition rhetoric
    1+4/19
  8. BDSSupports BDS or Not On Our Dime
    1/19

Documented Partial or adjacent. Blank means the file has no documented position, not that the candidate disagrees. Open the full matrix →

2026 election tracker

FOLLOW THE
INFLUENCE.

Search the record. Filter by outcome, state, office, or documented position. Sort by party-line breaks. Select up to four files to compare side by side. Filters live in the URL, so any view is shareable.

QUICK FILTERS
19 FILES MATCHING

Geography

WHERE IT
LANDED.

9 states. One tile per state; the number is how many files sit there. New York carries the ten-candidate slate; the contested statewide and swing-district bets are elsewhere.

9 STATES · 19 FILES

Hover or focus a state for its files. New York alone accounts for the ten-candidate NYC-DSA slate.

Before the endorsement

WHO IS
HASAN?

12 controversies. The viral quote, the longer context, his response, the sources, and which campaigns each one followed.

Open the profile

Research queue

NOT YET
A FILE.

8 more names are attributed to Piker by third-party tallies or share a stage with him for other candidates. None is published as a file until a dated, affirmative connection to their own race is sourced.

  • Summer LeeU.S. House · Pennsylvania · District 12reported
  • Rashida TlaibU.S. House · Michigan · District 12reported
  • Ilhan OmarU.S. House · Minnesota · District 05reported
  • Elijah ManleyU.S. House · Florida · District 20reported
  • Justin J. PearsonU.S. House · Tennessee · District 09unverified
  • Mai VangU.S. House · California · District 07unverified
  • Analilia MejiaU.S. House · New Jersey · District 11unverified
  • Frederick “Freddy” Haynes IIIU.S. House · Texas · District 30unverified
See what we found and what is missing ↗

About this tracker

WHO HASAN PIKER
BACKED IN 2026.

A plain-language index of every file, for readers and search engines alike.

HasanBacked is an independent, sourced record of the candidates Hasan Piker (the Twitch streamer known as HasanAbi) endorsed, rallied for, interviewed with an appeal to vote, or raised money for in the 2026 midterm primaries. It covers 19 candidates across 9 states: U.S. Senate and House races, a governor's race, and the ten-candidate NYC-DSA slate for the New York legislature.

Each candidate file documents the Piker connection with a dated source, the candidate's own positions measured against the national Democratic Party line on eight issues (arms embargo on Israel, abolishing ICE, Medicare for All, DSA membership, police and prison policy, BDS, AIPAC, and challenging incumbents), the flashpoint the campaign had to answer for, how the campaign handled the association, and the primary result from an election authority or AP.

The companion profile explains who Hasan Piker is, what his audience delivers to a campaign, and the 12 controversies that follow every candidate who shares a stage with him, each with the clip, the context, and his response.

ASSOCIATION IS NOT EQUIVALENCE.

A candidate's inclusion documents Piker's support. It does not establish that the candidate shares every statement or position attributed to him. Positions in the matrix are the candidate's own, sourced.

Read the methodology ↗