Rogers restates the funding allegation in weaker terms: “organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood”
Mike RogersRepublican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, interviewed on Fox Business’s Varney & Co.
On Fox Business, Rogers again said El-Sayed takes money from organisations connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, using the wording “organizations tied to” rather than the “terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood” formulation of his September 10 convention speech.
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Abdul El-Sayed is funding his campaign with money from terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.
“This is a guy that takes money from organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. He would not condemn it.”
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Mike Rogers’s allegation about Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign received funding from a terrorist organization
At a September 10, 2026 Republican National Convention midterm speech, Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers said Abdul El-Sayed was funding his campaign with money from “terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.” Rogers did not name a donor, amount, or campaign-finance filing in the speech. The research documents an outside-support chain involving CAIR Action, Unity & Justice Fund, and a Super PAC supporting El-Sayed, while examining whether any record establishes the specific allegation.
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Transcript posted by the Rogers campaign of his September 17 appearance on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. The wording differs materially from his September 10 convention speech: there he said El-Sayed was funding his campaign with money from “terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood”; here he says “organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood.” The campaign’s September 15 “return the money” page remains live, so this is a change of formulation rather than a retraction.
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Said during a Fox Business interview, in a passage that also referenced Hasan Piker, the Houthis and Hezbollah. The transcript was posted by Rogers’s own campaign.
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Rogers named no donor, amount or campaign-finance filing in this interview either. Neither he nor his campaign has withdrawn the September 10 formulation.
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On whether El-Sayed’s campaign received funding from a terrorist organisation, Rogers again asserts the allegation and criticises El-Sayed for it, matching the label on his earlier statements here. The editorially significant feature is not the label but the wording: “organizations tied to the Muslim Brotherhood” is a materially weaker claim than funding by “terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood,” since it asserts a connection rather than identity. He does not withdraw the earlier formulation, and his campaign’s September 15 page demanding the money be returned remained live, so this is a change of formulation rather than a retraction.
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