Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker weighed in on the “horrible” assassination of Charlie Kirk, saying he wishes he could still debate the conservative activist, but “tragedy intervened.”

Piker said he found out about Kirk’s fatal shooting while livestreaming on Twitch Wednesday.

Piker, a political commentator, was set to debate Kirk on Sept. 25 at Dartmouth College, a discussion that was going to be centered on the challenges and priorities facing young voters in the U.S.

“What shocked me was not merely the graphic nature of what took place. It was the horror of seeing someone whom I know — not a friend or an ally, but a human being I know personally and have debated before — fall victim to what clearly seems to be a rising tide of political violence,” Piker wrote in an op-ed........

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