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Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Democratic Senate Primary on Grassroots Campaign
Abdul El-Sayed, once described as 'a little bit young, a little bit brown, a little bit Muslim,' won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, according to Religion News Service, in a race marked by small-donor organizing over institutional money.
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This story restores the human dignity of a candidate often reduced to demographic shorthand, and asks readers to examine the assumptions we bring to questions of who belongs in public life.
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