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Progressive activist Abdul El-Sayed secured the Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat in Michigan, setting up a race against Republican Mike Rogers; if elected he would be the first Muslim US senator. El-Sayed, an outspoken critic of Israeli policy, subsequently apologized to Michigan's Jewish Democratic caucus for a past remark seen as justifying an attack on the Temple Israel synagogue, while declining to endorse a two-state solution.