{"id":277557,"date":"2026-06-25T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277557\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:36:11","slug":"nyc-elections-hasan-piker-helps-boost-claire-valdez-darializa-avila-chevalier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277557\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Elections: Hasan Piker Helps Boost Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">If Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blinks.bloomberg.com\/news\/stories\/TH54O4KK3NYE\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">sweep<\/a> by Democratic socialists across New York validated Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the city\u2019s kingmaker, it also established controversial streamer Hasan Piker as an emerging power behind the throne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Twitch star and political commentator spent Election Day crisscrossing the city, lending his audience of millions to candidates backed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0152392D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Democratic Socialists of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Tuesday\u2019s sweep by Democratic socialists across New York validated Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the city\u2019s kingmaker, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,3339,106704,416,60,9,24,56,63,65,64,87,4015,30398,6078],"class_list":["post-277557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-cities","tag-cory-anthony-booker","tag-elections","tag-israel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-social-media","tag-sport-utility-vehicles","tag-u-s-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}