Key takeaways from US Senate debate in Michigan between El-Sayed, Rogers

The leading candidates in Michigan’s heated Senate race have faced off in their first televised debate, with less than a month remaining before the United States midterm elections.Thursday’s hour-long debate, however, was a microcosm for how tense the toss-up race has become.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3US court rejects Trump’s emergency order keeping Michigan coal plant openlist 2 of 3Kamala Harris campaigns with Abdul El-Sayed to unify Democratic voterslist 3 of 3‘Bordering on angry’: The state of play as US midterms enter final monthend of listDemocratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, formerly the health director for Wayne County, repeatedly sought to paint his Republican adversary Mike Rogers as a yacht-owning millionaire out of touch with ordinary voters.For his part, Rogers, a former member of the US House of Representatives, lobbed accusations at El-Sayed that he was soft on “terrorism” and had foreign sympathies.The Michigan-born El-Sayed has repeatedly faced Islamophobic attacks while on the campaign trail, with Republican President Donald Trump labelling him an “extremist, terrorist sympathizer” whose history “goes back to the days of the Jihad”. If elected, El-...