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60 Minutes Transcript: Candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Mike Rogers

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In the home stretch of an expensive, bruising, and consequential Senate race, we went to speak to both candidates – and see them in action.

The son of Egyptian immigrants, Abdul El-Dayed won the Democratic primary against a more centrist rival by a sliver of a percentage point. But he has big ambitions – not just to beat the Republican party, but to remake his own.

After a Rhodes Scholarship and a medical degree from Columbia University, El-Sayed went straight into public health administration and then politics.

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