After CNN's Michael Smerconish frames the debate over Abdul El-Sayed as anti-Muslim, @LydiaMoynihan sets the record straight: "I disagree with your characterization that Republicans are being anti-Muslim. They are being anti-El-Sayed, who has repeatedly refused to deny or distance himself from Muslim Brotherhood ties. I want to highlight something that just came out. In 2012, he signed a letter in support of then-Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Morsi and urged him to purge the media and the police force as quickly as possible of dissenters. He told Kristen Welker, no familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Well, we're learning that actually his mother was involved with an organization that did funnel money to Hamas and all kinds." Later @ScottJenningsKY: "What do you think about [El-Sayed's] inability to answer the question, what's a bigger threat, Israel or Iran? What do you think about his answer to the question when that radical ran their truck into the synagogue, 'hurt people, hurt people'? The reason he's having to answer all of these questions is because he has made so many mistakes in his own positioning, in his own rhetoric in this campaign. And then when journalists, as Lydia points out, follow up with him, his sneering, condescending, defensive attitude leads to more questions. That is his problem!"