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Steve Neavling@MCmuckraker · Aug 14, 2026

This isn’t normal, even by the ugliest standards of politics. I went through the claims targeting Abdul El-Sayed one…

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A detailed analysis exposing false attacks on Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, including fabricated claims he supports terrorism, is a communist, or believes America deserved 9/11. The thread documents how Republican opponents, conservative media, and Trump have spread unsubstantiated lies and xenophobic attacks targeting his Muslim faith and identity.

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    This isn’t normal, even by the ugliest standards of politics. I went through the claims targeting Abdul El-Sayed one by one, and what I found was a barrage of lies, distortions, xenophobia, and Islamophobia meant to scare voters. 🧵metrotimes.com/news/the-smear…

  2. #2

    Mike Rogers says El-Sayed believes America deserved 9/11. That is false. El-Sayed has repeatedly said America did NOT deserve 9/11. FactCheck.org examined Rogers’ accusation and found his campaign provided no evidence for it.

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    It gets uglier. Sen. Tommy Tuberville called El-Sayed a “TERRORIST” and “RADICAL ISLAMIST.” Sen. Katie Britt called him a “jihadist sympathizer” and said people like him are “infiltrating from within.” None of those accusations is backed by evidence.

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    Trump calls El-Sayed a communist. So do other Republicans. There’s one problem: El-Sayed isn’t a communist. He explicitly rejects even the democratic socialist label and describes himself as a capitalist. The word has become little more than a scare tactic.

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    Consider Scott Jennings: El-Sayed criticized Fourth of July fireworks because of pollution, injuries, frightened animals, & veterans with PTSD. Jennings turned that into: El-Sayed wants to get rid of the Fourth of July. Then he called him an “anti-American radical communist.”

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    Jennings pulled another stunt with Hasan Piker. @hasanthehun He claimed Piker said America should resume lynching Black people, then used that statement to attack El-Sayed. But Piker was sarcastically condemning nostalgia for an era when lynchings occurred. Jennings lied.

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    @hasanthehun Trump added his own ugly contribution. He posted El-Sayed and his wife, Sarah Jukaku, who wears a hijab, beside a photo of himself and Melania Trump. “Two VERY DIFFERENT America’s,” it said. Trump cheated on Melania the same year El-Sayed married his wife.

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    @hasanthehun Calling a Muslim candidate a terrorist without evidence isn’t a policy argument. Falsely saying he believes America deserved 9/11 isn’t a policy argument. Calling him an infiltrator who must prove his allegiance to America isn’t a policy argument. It's bigotry and false.

  9. #9

    @hasanthehun These attacks are coming from Trump, El-Sayed’s opponent, sitting senators, members of Congress, Republican campaign organizations, & conservative media. The strategy: Repeat the lies until voters associate Abdul El-Sayed with something foreign, frightening, and dangerous.