AROn August 4, Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Democratic representative Haley Stevens by just 14,893 votes in Michigan's Democratic primary for a Senate seat, making him a potential first Muslim senator in U.S. history if elected in November. A former public health official, El-Sayed is compared to New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani due to his political stance and Islamic practice. Born in Michigan to an Egyptian immigrant father and a mother with roots in the county of Gratiot since the 19th century, El-Sayed attended public schools in southwest Michigan, excelling in sports and graduating with honors from the University of Michigan, where he joined Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his medical degree from Columbia University through a National Institutes of Health-funded program and later completed a Doctorate in Public Health at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In his career, he worked as a professor at Columbia’s Department of Epidemiology and became a recognized expert on health disparities, publishing over 100 peer-reviewed articles with more than 2,000 citations. He led efforts to cancel $700 million in medical debt for 300,000 Michiganders while serving as head of the state’s Dept
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