Trump Attacks Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed As “Muslim Radical,”
In a newly released video message directed at voters in Michigan ahead of the November 3, 2026 midterm election, Donald Trump launched a racial scathing attack against U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, branding him a “Muslim radical” and alleging ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Trump warned Michigan residents that El-Sayed’s election to the United States Senate is a risk the country cannot afford to take, pointing voters toward past correspondence as the basis for his accusations despite the candidate’s denials.
In the video, Trump repeatedly referred to the Democratic candidate as “Mohammed” — a renaming that has become a recent talking point.
According to reports from his White House remarks on Thursday, Trump said: “His name is Abdul, but I call him Mohammed Abdul El-Sayed. He is a Muslim Brotherhood guy, 100 per cent”. In another version of the remarks, he was quoted as saying “Some call him Abdul, but I call him Mohammed”.
Trump has also used the name “Mohammed El-Sayed” in posts on Truth Social, where he branded El-Sayed a “radical extremist, terrorist sympathizer”.
In the Michigan-targeted video, Trump said:
“To the people of Michigan, Mohammed El-Sayed is bad news. He’s a Muslim radical, he’s a Muslim brotherhood member, even though he denies it. All you have to do is look at his past correspondence, and we cannot take a chance on having this guy be in the United States Senate.”
Pivoting to the alternative, Trump threw his full support behind Mike Rogers, describing him as a champion dedicated to “making America great again”. Contrasting the two candidates, Trump claimed that El-Sayed would pull the nation backward, contrasting it with what he termed the current “golden age of America”.
Rogers and El-Sayed will face off in the midterm election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, to replace retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters. The seat is seen as one that could decide which party controls the Senate.
El-Sayed, who is seeking to become the first Muslim Arab-American in the Senate, has denied having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and fired back at the name change, saying “he knows my name”.
