Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed met on October 8, 2026, for the first debate of the Michigan Senate race, with a Fox News poll from the prior week putting El-Sayed ahead 50-49. Rogers insinuated that El-Sayed's mother had ties to terrorism and suggested he was bought off by Hamas and Hezbollah; reporting since has noted that El-Sayed's father-in-law and a donor had Muslim Brotherhood ties and that his birth mother worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency. A Rogers campaign spokesperson says the father-in-law served on CARE's board while funding the Senate race. At the second debate, El-Sayed said he has never been part of the Muslim Brotherhood and called Rogers's attacks religious profiling. Rogers also faces scrutiny over a…