El-Sayed spent months campaigning alongside a man who said America deserved 9/11 and refused to disavow him.
Now David Beamer – Todd's father, a 93-year-old Michigan man – took the stage Sunday and addressed El-Sayed directly.
What he said is the kind of charge Michigan voters carry with them when they close the curtain.
What Todd Beamer Did on Flight 93 and Why His Father Is Speaking Up Now
Todd Beamer was 32 years old when Islamic terrorists turned United Airlines Flight 93 into a weapon pointed at the Capitol or the White House.
He left behind a wife, two toddler sons, and a third child not yet born – Lisa was five months pregnant when the plane went down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Before he died, he got on the phone with a GTE operator in Illinois, asked her to join him in prayer, gathered the passengers around a plan, and said the two words that became America's first counterattack on September 11: "Let's roll."
He and 39 others – including Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, and Jeremy Glick – brought the plane down in a quiet Pennsylvania meadow rather than let it reach its target.
Twenty-five years later, David stood on a stage at a Trump rally alongside Senate nominee Mike Rogers and gubernatorial nominee Rep. John James, not to deliver a tribute to his son but to talk about the man running against Rogers.
He had already narrated an NRSC ad tying Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to Hasan Piker and the Muslim Brotherhood, but Sunday he was doing it in person, in front of the Michigan voters who will decide this.
David Beamer Called El-Sayed Anti-American and Tied Him to the Muslim Brotherhood
"He's anti-American," David Beamer said. "He is happy to be endorsed by our foreign enemies that hate us like the Muslim Brotherhood – he's happy to take their endorsement and their money because his views align with theirs and theirs align with his."
That did not come from an opposition research file.
A 93-year-old father who buried his son after Islamic terrorists killed him said it, standing in front of voters that will decide this race, describing a Senate candidate whose primary victory was celebrated by a Muslim Brotherhood-linked publication, who wrote an op-ed defending Brotherhood-backed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
And whose father-in-law reportedly sits on the CAIR Michigan board and donated $300,000 to his campaign.
Then there is Hasan Piker – the far-left Twitch streamer El-Sayed campaigned alongside at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan – who told a 2019 livestream audience that "America deserved 9/11."
When a reporter asked El-Sayed at an April 7 rally whether he would disavow any of Piker's comments, he answered: "I'm not here to disavow people's views."
Months later, after enough heat that it was costing him votes, he called the statement "a dumb statement" – but he never broke from Piker until the damage was done.
The NRSC called El-Sayed "the most radical Senate candidate in America," and Rogers agreed: "He pledged his support to the Muslim Brotherhood and campaigns with people who refuse to condemn terrorism."
David Beamer had the last word.
"Let's roll."
El-Sayed Has No Answer for David Beamer in the Michigan Senate Race
Democrats spent months turning every question about El-Sayed's Muslim Brotherhood ties and his Piker alliance into a complaint about Islamophobia. That argument does not work against a 93-year-old father whose son was murdered by Islamic terrorists.
Michigan has not sent a Republican to the Senate in 32 years, and El-Sayed has the full weight of the national Democrat machine behind him.
None of it gives El-Sayed an answer for what David Beamer said on Sunday.
Nobody in El-Sayed's camp – not AOC, not Schumer, not Piker – can stand on a Michigan stage and explain why their candidate spent the entire primary refusing to condemn someone who said America deserved what happened on Todd Beamer's plane.
Todd Beamer gave his life to keep terrorists from reaching their target, and his father spent Sunday in Michigan making sure voters know who wants to walk into that building next.
He closed with "Let's roll."
Sources:
- Amanda Prestigiacomo, "Father of Flight 93 Hero Lays Into Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed," The Daily Wire, 2026.
- "NRSC Hits El-Sayed for Pledging Support to Iran's Revolutionary 'Counterparts,' the Muslim Brotherhood," The Daily Signal, August 5, 2026.
- "9/11 Hero's Father Narrates Powerful Ad Against Abdul El-Sayed," The Blaze, 2026.
- "El Sayed Backs Away from Hasan Piker's Controversial Takes Ahead of General Election," Washington Examiner, August 10, 2026.
- "El-Sayed Defends Alliance With Hasan Piker in Newly Circulated Video," The Daily Wire, 2026.
- "Muslim Brotherhood Publication Celebrates Abdul El-Sayed Primary Victory," Algemeiner, August 10, 2026.
- "Michigan Democratic Senate Hopeful Embraces Hasan Piker Despite Controversial Remarks," Fox News, 2026.