# Abdul El-Sayed vs Haley Stevens - Progressives vs Centrists, gloves-off discussion

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I just posted this in another thread, but it fits here.

> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/8504):
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> [Here’s Abdul’s Senate campaign homepage.](https://abdulforsenate.com/about/)
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> Literally not a single word about Israel. Lots of stuff about fighting Musk and Trump, affordability, all his accomplishments as Wayne County Health Director, how he literally wrote a book on single-payer health care and was appointed to Biden’s health policy taskforce, how he captained his high school football team and played lacrosse for the University of Michigan, and oh yeah, the whole Rhodes Scholar thing.

Israel was absolutely not among the issues _he_ wanted to fight this campaign on.

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