Current polling suggests the House will change hands after next month's midterm elections, so Republicans are focused on retaining control of the U.S. Senate to keep socialism at bay.
In Michigan, one of several key races Republicans must win to remain the majority in the upper chamber, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed holds a narrow lead over Republican Mike Rogers.
El-Sayed has openly discussed how his Muslim faith informs his progressive political views, community work and public health platform. He has also faced scrutiny over his alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
When Kristen Welker of NBC's "Meet the Press" asked him to "set the record straight" about that, he responded with a simple "no."
"You don't have any ties, and your family doesn't?" Welker clarified.
"No," he repeated.
Meanwhile, Fox News' Bill Melugin has uncovered social media posts from El-Sayed's half-sister discussing their mother's connection to the organization.
"El-Sayed's half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, who shares the same mom as El-Sayed, appears to have posted on X multiple times that her family is Muslim Brotherhood and supports the organization," Melugin recently reported.
According to Fox News and other outlets, Abdelhadi, a professor in the University of Chicago's Department of Comparative Human Development, posted messages on social media saying their mother, Fatten Elkomy, was an active member of the Muslim Brotherhood during her college years in the 1970s.
"Had an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early 70s while she was in college #respect," Abdelhadi wrote in a 2012 post.
Washington Times columnist Bob Knight is not surprised by what he calls El-Sayed's apparent lie.
"This is a pattern among radical Democratic candidates, distancing themselves from their radical backgrounds and pretending they're just moderates," he tells AFN.
Knight also points to the Islamic concept of taqiyya, which permits Muslims to conceal or deny their religious beliefs to avoid immediate danger or persecution, provided their inner beliefs remain sincere.
"Perhaps Mr. El-Sayed doesn't have any trouble equivocating about his family's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood and feels that it's actually his duty as a Muslim to portray it that way," the columnist suggests.
Abdelhadi has drawn national attention for her political activism, public statements, social media posts about her family's past association with the Muslim Brotherhood, and felony charges stemming from an anti-ICE protest in Illinois.
El-Sayed's campaign has publicly stated that he loves his sister but disagrees with her political views and rhetoric.
