2 weeks before the midterms, Trump intensifies attack on Democratic candidate for Senate: 'Sick and violent jihadist'

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, made a direct attack on a Democratic candidate for the Senate in the state of Michigan this Friday (23).

With two weeks to go until the US midterm elections, Trump called Abdul El-Sayed a "sick and violent jihadist" in a White House press statement.

The American president also accused the Democratic candidate of belonging to a group called the Muslim Brotherhood, which has already been denied by El-Sayed, and stated that he hides the fact that his middle name is Mohammed.

"He's a little faker, and everything about him is false. He's a liar. He talks about all these things as if he's moderate, but he's not. He's a jihadist. A sick, violent jihadist, and he has no place in our government," Trump said.

The dispute between Abdul El-Sayed and former Republican deputy Mike Rogers for a Senate seat is cited by the American press as one of the fiercest of the midterms.

For weeks, Republicans have claimed that El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group considered terrorist by the State Department.

In a recent interview, the Democrat refuted the accusations and accused his opponents of fomenting Islamophobia by referring to him by his full name and insisting on his connection with terrorism.

"Rogers' only strategy is to point to me and my name and my faith and say that we are different. And that you should be suspicious of people simply because they are different from you in the way they pray. It's really shameful. But he has no ideas. He doesn't really care about solving problems. He cares about power," El-Sayed said earlier this month on NBC News' “Meet the Press.”