The campaign arm of Senate Republicans unveiled Wednesday their own spin on Jeopardy! to criticize Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed ahead of his second debate later that day with GOP rival Mike Rogers.
Republicans say the game, dubbed “Jihad Jeopardy” and offered on a new website, “exposes Abdul El-Sayed and his family’s extensive ties to designated terrorist organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda.”
It also marks an escalation in Republican tactics to spotlight his family’s controversial alleged past involving foreign and terrorist entities, as well as his former remarks on the subject less than two weeks before the battleground race could help determine control of the Senate.
“Abdul el Sayed and his family have such extensive ties to designated terrorist groups that it was easy to fill an entire jeopardy board with the specifics,” Samantha Cantrell, a regional press secretary for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in a statement. “Abdul has serious questions to answer, and it should alarm every single Michigander that he continually refuses to do so.”
The Washington Examiner has reached out to the el Sayed campaign for comment.
El Sayed has accused Republicans of unfairly using his Muslim faith to stoke fear among voters, while those such as his GOP opponent, Rogers, have pointed to his anti-Israel rhetoric and controversy around his family’s past as disqualifying for a senator.
El Sayed’s half-sister previously posted that their mother, who worked for a nonprofit group designated as an organization supporting terrorism, was once involved in Muslim Brotherhood “activism.” His sister-in-law, Mariam Jukaku, was also on the federal Terrorism Screening Database. The candidate has vehemently denied he or his family members were involved in any nefarious activity. All the ancestral controversies are among the questions included by Republicans in their “Jihad Jeopardy.”
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Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul El-Sayed speaks during a campaign event Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)One of the questions and answers reads: “$400 Clue: El-Sayed’s half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, wrote in 2012 that her family had long been members of this group. Answer: What is the Muslim Brotherhood?”
EL SAYED CONFRONTED WITH RELATIVE’S POSTS SUPPORTING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AFTER HE DENIED AFFILIATION
Another, categorized as a “$600 Daily Double,” says: “El-Sayed’s mother wired money to Afghanistan in support of Osama bin Laden for this organization, designated by the U.S. Treasury in 2004 as a foreign terrorist organization. Answer: What is the Islamic American Relief Agency?”
The Michigan Senate race is to replace retiring Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI).
