00:00Embattled Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar chummed up with controversial far-left streamer
00:05Hassan Piker on Monday, sparking backlash from Democrats over the polarizing move.
00:10Piker, who's previously said that America deserved 9-11, took the stage with the squad
00:14rep at a Q&A event broadcasted on the streamer's Twitch channel.
00:18The pair went on to make incendiary comments about Republicans, referring to them as terrorists
00:23and the pedophile protection party.
00:25I'm not even going to bring up the Republicans because they are the most un-American force.
00:30In this country, they're terrorists.
00:32Minnesota is not interested in a pedophile protection party.
00:38The congresswoman, who's being investigated by the Trump administration over allegations
00:42of possible immigration fraud, also claimed in a green room couch conversation before the
00:47event that the media fixation on them stems from their good looks.
00:51Why is this?
00:52They just look really good on their screen.
00:54That's why they like having me.
00:55You think that's why they get you?
00:56You think that's why they get you?
00:57Maybe a little bit.
00:58Yeah, they're like, she's so charismatic.
01:01I think that's what it is.
01:01I think I can see that.
01:03The event, which was described as the inaugural episode of socialist Minnesota state lawmaker
01:07Omar Fateh's I'm the Host Now series, drew backlash from some in Omar's own party.
01:12As Democrats, we constantly criticize the far right for their incendiary and discriminatory
01:17politics, but we need to hold ourselves to the same standard, Minnesota rep Angie Craig
01:22wrote on X.
01:23Hasan Piker's rhetoric is polarizing and dangerous, and embracing him as a party is a mistake.
01:29Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who's running for governor in the state,
01:34slammed Piker's past comments as reckless and unacceptable in a statement to Jewish insider.
01:39The shock jock streamer built his reputation as an intensely divisive figure over his outrageous
01:45commentary about America and Israel.
01:47America deserved 9-11, dude.
01:49F*** it.
01:50I'm saying it.
01:50Hamas is a thousand times better than a fascist settler colonial apartheid state.
01:55I stand by that.
01:56I'm a harm reduction voter.
01:57I'm a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time.
02:01While Omar's campaign told Fox 9 the collaboration would help get young people to the polls with
02:06Piker's enormous following, concerns remain that the move could backfire by alienating moderate
02:11and Jewish voters from the party just eight days before the midterm elections.
02:15We're breathing differently than to the country.
02:15Do you feel like you have a challenge?
02:15We're breathing differently in order to solve any problems.
02:15And then let's go, even if we're in our communities, don't никак, this isn't
