Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: “JD, habibi,” Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed said, using an Arabic term of endearment. “There is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January.” on.wsj.com/4sEUIMe

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  This is a brief report about Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed and his upcoming swearing-in.

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