JD Vance says Democrat Abdul El-Sayed "has a lot of weird friends"

Four days before Michigan’s U.S. Senate election, Vice President JD Vance was asked whether Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is a jihadist, HuffPost reported, and Vance replied with a comment on the people around El-Sayed. The question followed public attacks by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican senators, who described El-Sayed as an extremist or security risk; Trump offered no evidence, NBC News reported, and no evidence has been produced that El-Sayed belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed, a physician and former Detroit health director who would be the first Muslim in the Senate, denies Brotherhood membership. The remark matters because it places the vice president in a closing-week dispute over the candidate’s faith, associations and loyalty.