His mother worked for a designated terrorist group. And then there’s this from his sister:

Radicalism runs in the family.

Professor Eman Abdelhadi teaches at the University of Chicago.

On the morning of the October 7 attacks, she celebrated online by tweeting, “Good morning, freedom.”

After the massacres, she called for violent student uprisings on the streets of America.

“Let Palestine break this country wide open. Long live the student intifada.”

In October of 2025, she attended a protest at the Broadview ICE Detention Center outside of Chicago.

She was arrested for violence and spit on a police officer.

She’s currently charged with two counts of aggravated battery, along with two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest.

Her social media is flooded with antisemitic garbage and anti-American propaganda.

Did the Democrats vet him at all? Or maybe these things are considered plusses nowadays.

Even this?

From 2015 to 2017, the socialist Muslim Senate candidate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, was executive director and health officer of the Detroit Health Department. In that capacity, he was in charge of Detroit’s Animal Control operation at a time when that department was engaged in some highly questionable activities. El-Sayed has boasted about how he “rebuilt the animal control system,” but he actually seems to have left a wide swath of destruction in his wake. And this is not just a story about the ethical treatment of animals.

The Daily Mail reported Thursday that “his record overseeing Detroit’s troubled animal-control system” includes “high rates of animal euthanasia,” particularly involving the killing of dogs. It seems that “nearly 4,680 dogs and cats were euthanized by Detroit Animal Care and Control (DACC) during the period when El-Sayed was in his post at the Detroit Health Department,” and far more dogs than cats were put to death.

And then there’s his vile racism:

Abdul El-Sayed is facing a wave of backlash over a pair of posts taking aim at Second Lady Usha Vance and Trump aide Natalie Harp.

“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…” El-Sayed posted after Vice President JD Vance took aim at his past… pic.twitter.com/IXHlt2tcHK

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Abdul El-Sayed is facing a wave of backlash over a pair of posts taking aim at Second Lady Usha Vance and Trump aide Natalie Harp.

“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…” El-Sayed posted after Vice President JD Vance took aim at his past comments on Sharia law. Critics quickly accused the Michigan Senate candidate of making a racist reference to Usha Vance’s Indian ethnicity.

Then El-Sayed turned his attention to Trump aide Natalie Harp: “Natalie, I think he’s had a little too much iPad for the week. He needs his rest.”

The posts are now fueling accusations of racism and sexism, adding another flashpoint to El-Sayed’s escalating fight with Vance.

And back in April, from El-Sayed:

“What do you think is going through Usha’s head when he talks? She’s like, ‘Damn, I have to sleep with him,’” El-Sayed said on “The Allen Analysis Show” posted on Friday.

I guess she’s pregnant so something is happening,” El-Sayed continued, “Can you imagine, he’s got Brown kids, at some point he’s going to have a really awkward conversation with his kids, like, you made your career hating people who are different.” …

El-Sayed continued, “I love my Brown kids, and I think my Brown kids are just as American as everyone else. JD Vance has Brown kids who he thinks are less American than everyone else.”

El-Sayed also said on the podcast appearance that Vance has the “charisma of a doorknob” and the “aura of a toad” while urging Usha Vance to “get out” of the marriage.

El-Sayed has the charisma of a viper and the aura of a crocodile. He’s a despicable human being.