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American politician and epidemiologist (born 1984)
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is an American epidemiologist and politician who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan.
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American entrepreneur (born 1977)
David Scott Portnoy is an American businessman and social media personality. He is the founder and owner of sports and popular culture company Barstool Sports.
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U.S. state
Michigan is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north. With a population of 10.13 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km2), Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by total area east of the Mississippi River.
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Abdul El-Sayed mocked Dave Portnoy's athleticism after Portnoy called the Michigan Senate nominee a "terrorist" over a Wolverines cheating joke.