Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has disavowed comments made by far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

El-Sayed has campaigned with Piker, who has a history of controversial statements, including that “America deserved 9/11,” though he later apologized for the remark.

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” El-Sayed said Piker’s comments were “dumb” when asked by Kristen Welker if he disavowed the comments.

“Of course. It was a dumb statement. And, of course, I think Hasan himself would say that was a dumb statement,” El-Sayed said in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “He disavowed it. So yes. America didn’t deserve 9/11. But, you know, to sit here and play gotcha politics with a dumb thing somebody said out of context, that they disavowed themselves, to say, ‘Oh, well, what does that mean about what you think?’ I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do rather than this idea that we’re so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020, but we seem to want to bring back.”

El-Sayed on Sunday refused to say if he would stop campaigning with Piker, telling Welker that he is “less concerned now with who I’m campaigning with and a lot more concerned about who I’m campaigning to.”