Dr. Abdul El-Sayed will be the first Muslim to sit in the U.S. Senate. Getting there meant a campaign in which his faith was the argument against him — from his opponent, from members of Congress and from a president on a stage. Independent journalist Ali Harb spent the race in Michigan. He tells host Robyn Vincent what that kind of politics leaves behind after the counting stops.

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