Hasan Piker Was Supposed to Headline a Denver Rally. Then He Wasn't There.
Venue chaos, a last-minute Capitol move, and one very absent streamer — Melat Kiros's campaign event became a whole thing without its star guest.
Darlings, when we last left our hero Hasan Piker, he was Denver-bound and endorsement-ready, riding into Colorado on a wave of ban-fueled press momentum. And then.
According to reporting from Denverite and Colorado Newsline, the planned rally for congressional candidate Melat Kiros hit turbulence before it even began — the original venue, the Ogden, was apparently cancelled, sending the event scrambling to the Colorado State Capitol grounds at the last minute. Per those same reports, Piker did not make the relocated event. He was, as they say in the biz, absent.
Now, was that the suppression? Kiros seems to think so. According to Denverite, the candidate herself alleged that the venue drama amounted to "suppression" — a word that, once you say it, tends to do a lot of heavy lifting. A moment. Rocky Mountain PBS and Colorado Newsline both covered Kiros pressing on regardless at the Capitol, making her case for a "new generation of leaders" to the supporters who showed up despite the chaos.
And if this feels familiar — the candidate left to hold the rally alone while the endorser is conspicuously elsewhere — well, it's because Piker's June 4th California pick, Don Samuels challenger Nithya Raman, also lost her race, prompting Piker himself to declare he is "not a kingmaker." Now we're getting philosophical about it.
"New generation of leaders" — Melat Kiros, per Rocky Mountain PBS, rallying at the Colorado Capitol after venue chaos
To be fair — and we are nothing if not occasionally fair — there is no confirmed explanation on record from Piker as to why he didn't appear at the relocated event. Per the available reporting, the venue moved at the last minute; whether that move was the reason for his absence is, allegedly, unclear. What is clear is that the candidate had to carry the event solo, which, credit where it's due, she apparently did.
Meanwhile, also on June 14th, Piker was apparently busy calling Elon Musk a "f***ing failure" in the context of the SpaceX IPO discourse, per legalinsurrection.com's characteristically measured coverage. We wish him well in both endeavors.
My loves, the endorsement tour giveth and the endorsement tour taketh away. Banned from Britain, present in spirit only in Denver — at some point the optics of the campaign trail start to look less like a movement and more like a scheduling conflict.
Prediction: Kiros's "suppression" allegation gets exactly one news cycle before Piker tweets through it.
