From Piker To Bernie, Nobody Wants To Be Seen With Francesca Hong

The highest-profile socialists in Congress have refused to endorse or campaign with Thanksgiving-hating Francesca Hong as Wisconsin voters head to the polls Tuesday, setting up a potential make-or-break moment for the socialist wing’s summer surge momentum.

“I don’t think so,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said last week when asked if he would endorse Hong on the “Pod Save America” podcast. “I met Francesca a couple of years ago, [when] I was in Wisconsin. And she was very, very nice. But, again, this is a race I just am not that familiar with.” 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) also turned down the opportunity to support Hong. “I haven’t endorsed in that race. My focus has been in winning back the Congress, winning back the House, and positioning ourselves to have the best chance possible to win the Senate,” she told ABC News, while joking that her and other socialist politicians’ calls to “defund the police” were just a “crazy, Woke 1” era.

In response to the cold shoulders, Hong said she will seek additional conversations with her Left-wing skeptics. 

“I have so much respect for the senator and the congresswoman, and they are working tirelessly to make sure that we can flip Congress and the Senate and get Democrats wins in the midterms. I look forward to conversations with them about that, too,” she told reporters. 

Hasan Piker, the leftist streamer who has enthusiastically backed Hong, is also sitting out Tuesday’s final push, according to Politico. 

Hong, a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America, holds a commanding polling lead going into Wisconsin’s contentious Democratic gubernatorial primary against establishment-backed David Crowley. Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, has the endorsement of outgoing Democratic Governor Tony Evers, who leaned on moderate politics to keep Republicans out of the governor’s mansion for nearly a decade.

“I think she’s in a tough place. She has spent her entire campaign dealing not with the issues, but what’s on the Twitter, and I just find that that’s not a good way to beat Tom Tiffany,” Evers said of Hong. “It’s going to be tough … but I think she’s at a real disadvantage, especially since she spends a lot of time talking about Twitter.”

The far-Left bartender has faced intense scrutiny and negative media coverage in recent weeks over fringe views, including past calls to scrap Thanksgiving from the American tradition, abolish the U.S. Senate, and do away with prisons and police. Hong has also taken aim at other iconic American holidays, saying she doesn’t like fireworks ahead of Independence Day, dismissing Halloween as “not my thing,” and claiming Valentine’s Day brings out “the worst of humanity” on a day when “capitalism tells you how to show love.”

Hong’s insurgent campaign also drew criticism for tapping an OnlyFans model and self-described sex worker as a senior staffer. That baggage, coupled with rambling national interviews that only dug her political hole deeper, appears to be keeping what should be her staunchest allies on the sidelines.

Prediction markets currently favor Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) to win in November.