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Abdul El-Sayed is locked in a tight race with fellow Democrat Haley Stevens for the US Senate nomination in Michigan.
As he campaigns on boilerplate progressive agenda items like Medicare for All and getting “money out of politics,” a series of reports has resurfaced his past support for more extreme policies like defunding police and prison abolition.
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