Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is under media fire for campaigning with streamer Hassan Piker, in what looks like a one-sided grilling of an outsider candidate.

• Reporters keep pressing El-Sayed to disavow Piker over an old comment that "America deserved 9/11," which Piker took back years ago.
• The complaint: insider candidates never get the same treatment — no one asks them to denounce their own hardline pro-Israel allies or donors.
• El-Sayed's opponent Mike Rogers takes big money from pro-Israel groups but faces no similar pressure.
• Coverage also framed Medicare for All as unpopular, even though most Americans say they support it.
• The larger charge is that mainstream TV hosts go soft on establishment figures and hit outsiders with gotcha questions about cost, while never asking how war spending gets paid for.

Outlook: Expect this hostile media framing of El-Sayed and other outsider candidates to continue through the campaign.