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Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has carefully curated a family narrative for the campaign trail that erases his terror group-linked birth mother for his white stepmom — even though he remains close to his “ummi,” The Post can reveal. Biological mom Fatten Elkomy, 66, a psychiatric nurse at New Horizons Community Support Services in Columbia, MO, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and previously worked for the Islamic American Relief Agency — a designated terrorist organization — according to 2010 federal court documents naming her. While in Egypt in the 1970s, she was an activist with the Muslim Brotherhood —...

One key rule in politics is: If you're explaining, you're losing. If you're denying, you're really losing. And if NBC News questions you about your ties to an international terror network on national television, the denial doesn't actually help – even if it's sincere. And in the case of Abdul El-Sayed, this denial is utter nonsense. Kristen Welker posed the question on yesterday's Meet the Press, highlighting just how much of an issue El-Sayed's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood have become in Michigan's Senate race. El-Sayed's terse denial to Welker's repeated and direct queries doesn't exactly settle the matter, either:...