Progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed may have been caught in another fib about his background, this time about his family’s roots in Michigan.

In a newly released campaign advertisement, El-Sayed touted his Michigan roots, saying that they date back to the early 1800’s.

A closer look at his family history, however, tells a different story.

El-Sayed’s parents were both Egyptian immigrants to the United States, with his biological father coming to the United States in 1979, and his biological mother did not immigrate to the United States until the 1980’s.

Despite this, El-Sayed claims that his familial roots in Michigan date back to the 1800’s through his stepmother’s parents in a recent campaign advertisement.

The issue of El-Sayed’s background is further complicated by another potential fib the Senate candidate told during his time at Columbia University.

During that time, El-Sayed claimed to be a dual American-Egyptian citizen on his resume, but later had to retract the claim after it came under scrutiny.

“Abdul is not a dual citizen by any verifiable metric and never has been,” campaign spokeswoman Roxie Richner told the Washington Free Beacon.

The issue of El-Sayed’s background in Michigan is not the first time that he has faced scrutiny for a false of misleading claim about his personal or professional life.

A report from Politico in May found multiple instances where El-Sayed referred to himself as a physician despite having almost no history treating patients and not holding a physician’s license in Michigan or New York.

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