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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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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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Rogers accused El-Sayed of pulling off a con by leaving Michigan voters with the impression that he practiced medicine despite never doing so outside of an internship.
El-Sayed and Rogers debated this week as polls show a close U.S. Senate race in Michigan.
In Michigan's first U.S. Senate debate, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers tried to drag down the other through personal attacks that have become the trademark of a nasty campaign. We fact-checked their swipes.