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El-Sayed Pivots Away From Hasan Piker in Bid to Appeal to Michigan Centrists

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Since scoring a surprise victory in the Michigan Democratic primary, progressive Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is trying to push toward the middle to reach the more moderate electorate in a must-win state for the party in November.

Events this week — in which he distanced his campaign from Twitch streamer Hasan Piker in the latest of the online personality's antisemitism controversies, followed by a Fox News interview that devolved into a discussion of circumcision and Sharia law — show how challenging that will be.