Related, a week ago, Hasan invited to his stream for an interview Nithya Raman, a DSA-affiliated LA city council member running for mayor against incumbent Karen Bass. This ended up causing quite a stir for reasons that I'll explain in a bit but first...
From May 15, 2026:
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I'm not asking to watch all of this, but rather just click through the whole thing and pay attention to how the two look.
Notice that Raman is almost always looking at Hasan while Hasan is looking at anything besides her most of the time, likely either his computer (chat) or his phone.
Anyway, Hasan ran this interview because he wants Raman to defeat Bass, following his political goal to take over the Democrats with increasingly-radical Leftists. But because Hasan also has his pet issues, he had to interrogate Raman over Israel and the police specifically, and because Raman has a better sense of pragmatism, especially while campaigning, she gave answers that are realistic, but unsatisfactory to Hasan's audience. She had to explain to Hasan, for example, that she's obligated to authorize payment to police working overtime because the police would otherwise sue and then win for even more payment. As Raman spoke as such, Hasan's chat became increasingly hostile to her such that Hasan quietly had the chat switched to emote-only mode. At the end of the full interview above, you can see the chat when he directs for it to be switched off of emote-only, but here is the point when Hasan shut up his chat (about 25 minutes into the interview):
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2772750946?t=05h49m29s 1:45
As a result of all of this, the interview got negative reaction all around, damaging Hasan's reputation. Those who are serious about Raman winning the election (again, even Hasan would like for her to beat Bass) were upset with him over asking her such questions that would've damaged her to the electorate had she given the answers that Hasan wanted. Hasan's core audience, on the other hand, were upset with Hasan for seemingly covering for a "Zionist" by muting chat and not going hard enough on her with the pet issues. Here's a bit of Hasan seething over the negative reaction the following day:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f7hC7-7oD6s