On October 13, 2026, the Washington Free Beacon published 2012 and 2013 tweets from Iman Abdeladi, a University of Chicago assistant professor and sister of Michigan Senate Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, describing her family as long tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. The posts followed El-Sayed's denial on Meet the Press that he or his family had any such ties. He said he was not raised by his mother, called the tweets hearsay, and said he never discussed the Muslim Brotherhood with her. Coverage has noted his parents divorced when he was three, that his mother's ties were not secret, and that he described her in his book. On October 19 he said 'sure, yeah, absolutely' when an audience member asked…