{"id":379524,"date":"2026-10-22T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379524\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:58:48","slug":"rogers-accuses-el-sayed-of-being-bought-by-muslim-brotherhood-in-michigan-senate-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379524\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers accuses El-Sayed of being ‘bought’ by Muslim Brotherhood in Michigan Senate debate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan Senate hopeful Mike Rogers torched his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, during their debate Wednesday over his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rogers, a former Republican congressman and retired FBI agent, brought up an open letter to the terror group that El-Sayed reportedly signed in 2012 \u2014 and refused to comment on when asked by the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo \u2014 being bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood, having donors to his campaign from Hamas that support Hezbollah, is not a problem?\u201d Rogers said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michigan Senate hopeful Mike Rogers torched his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, during their Oct. 21, 2026, over his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. FOX 17 WXMI<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are going to go to the United States Senate, we need to know, are you for America? Or are you for these terrorist groups overseas?\u201d he argued. \u201cYou can grin, and you can smile, and you can talk real pretty, but I\u2019m going to tell you what, that is a risk to our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n

El-Sayed, a former public health official<\/a>, later fumed that Rogers would question his allegiances.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe keeps raising this question about this association with an organization I\u2019ve never been a part of \u2026 because my mom who is a nurse in Missouri? It doesn\u2019t make any sense and it\u2019s actually really quite beneath you, Mike. It\u2019s really quite beneath you,\u201d El-Sayed argued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Democrat\u2019s biological mom Fatten Elkomy, a psychiatric nurse at New Horizons Community Support Services in Columbia, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and previously worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency \u2014 a designated terrorist organization \u2014 according to 2010 federal court documents naming her.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed, a former public health official, later fumed that Rogers would question his allegiances. FOX 17 WXMI<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old was also an activist with the Muslim Brotherhood \u2014 a terror-designated Islamist political movement seeking to establish sharia rule in Muslim-majority countries \u2014 according to a social media post from her daughter, Eman Abdelhadi, El-Sayed\u2019s half-sister, The Post previously reported<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When Rogers attempted to interject as El-Sayed was condemning him, the Democrat shouted him down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m talking! I\u2019m talking!\u201d he raged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Supporters of Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers hold signs before a debate between Rogers and Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed outside the debate\u2019s venue in Southfield, Michigan on Oct. 21, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cTo bring into question my commitment to the Constitution is really beneath you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed added that he is \u201cproud of America\u201d and \u201cproud to be an American.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rogers used his closing remarks to court Michigan Democrats who may view El-Sayed as too radical to represent the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The contentious debate was the second and final between the two candidates before the November election. FOX 17 WXMI<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are worried \u2026 you\u2019re a Haley Stevens voter and you came out of this and said, \u2018Man I just can\u2019t do it, he\u2019s too extreme\u2019 \u2026 guess what, you\u2019ll have a home with us,\u201d Rogers said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to earn your vote on Nov. 3.\u201d<\/p>\n

The showdown marked the second and final debate between the two candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In their fiery first debate earlier this month, El-Sayed repeatedly refused to say whether he considers Iran or Israel to be the \u201cgreater threat to the United States\u201d \u2014\u00a0 calling the question \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan candidate for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks to members of the Detroit Economic Club inside the Masonic Temple of Detroit on Oct. 20, 2026. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rogers indicated<\/a> that he would no longer support Israel if it were to use nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed also accused Rogers of taking corporate dollars and being bought and paid for by donors, while Rogers attempted to tie his Muslim opponent to Islamic extremism.<\/p>\n

Republican leaders in the state were pleased with Rogers\u2019 latest debate performance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cMike Rogers demonstrated yet again why he is the commonsense, steady hand Michiganders want to see in the U.S. Senate,\u201d Michigan GOP Chairman Jim Runestad said in a statement. \u201cWe cannot afford Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s far-left, big-government policies, and we cannot risk electing a person who campaigns with the likes of Hasan Piker and seemingly justified the horrific terrorist attack targeting children and the Jewish community in Bloomfield Hills.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The race for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) has been one of the most contentious of the midterm cycle<\/a>. The outcome of the Nov. 3 contest could determine which party controls the Senate next year.<\/p>\n

Polls have<\/a> regularly pegged the Michigan Senate race as a toss-up.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed has a slight 2-percentage-point edge over Rogers in the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan Senate hopeful Mike Rogers torched his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, during their debate Wednesday over his alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118764,4117,9730,46937,9,11,10,87,855,58],"class_list":["post-379524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-abdul-el-sayed","tag-debates","tag-michigan","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-senate","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379524","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=379524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}