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Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed engaged in a tense exchange with an NBC News anchor on Wednesday after denying family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood during a Sunday interview.
The confrontation occurred as scrutiny intensified over social media posts by his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, which allege their mother was an active member of the group in Egypt during the 1970s.
On NBC Nightly News, anchor David Llamas pressed El-Sayed to explain the posts after he had stated to NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press that he and his family had no ties to the Islamist organization.
El-Sayed responded by citing his birth in Rochester Hills, Michigan, in 1984, and his career in local public health, questioning the relevance of events in Egypt during the 1970s to his current candidacy.
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