El-Sayed rejects Muslim Brotherhood attacks in Michigan Senate race

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed pushed back after Republicans escalated claims tying him and his family to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has become a late-campaign line of attack before the Nov. 3 election. At a rally in Flint and in a debate with Republican Mike Rogers, El-Sayed said the accusations were an attempt to question his loyalty because he is Muslim. The attacks have focused on a 2012 open letter he signed supporting then-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and on resurfaced social media posts by his half-sister about their mother’s activism in Egypt in the 1970s. Fox News reported there is no evidence El-Sayed has any affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.