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Start free trial →The Ben Ferguson Podcast · US Politics · September 2026
Ted Cruz on his Verdict podcast with Ben Ferguson, reacting to a clip of Pritzker on ABC's This Week declining to denounce streamer Hasan Piker, who has appeared alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. In the clip, Pritzker said he was not focused on streamers and wanted to talk about stopping Donald Trump.
Doesn't mean anything to my election.
That's one heck of a way of describing it and throwing someone under the bus there, right?
Well, look, he, he spoke accurately when he says he doesn't want to talk about him. He really doesn't want to talk about him, but, but, You know, Jonathan Karl doesn't press him at all. I mean, these powderpuff interviews, I can't imagine what it's like to be a Democrat and just have all of these reporters basically acting like your press secretary. You know, he doesn't press him. Well, I get that you don't want to talk about him, but are you troubled that your party's nominee in Michigan is campaigning alongside him, welcomes him? Look, without Hassan Pike or Abdul Al-Sayed probably doesn't win the nomination. And Al-Sayed repeatedly refuses to distance himself. And by the way, Al-Sayed said many of the same things. Do you support him? Are you troubled that Chuck Schumer is supporting him? Those would be the questions that would be asked of a Republican if the tables were turned. But, you know, from Pritzker's perspective, and this is true of every Democrat, they welcome these America-hating radicals, or at least they…
I mean, a lot of the energy in the Democratic Party right now is clearly on the left, far left. I mean, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, you've had a number of their candidates winning in these Democratic primaries. Are you concerned about that? That that's like a message that may work in…
Look, there haven't been very many of those, at least DSA candidates who are winning. It's true that there are progressives that are winning.
Around the country. We're going to have trouble in the House. A few.