Veytics Intelligence
2026-10-09 · Aljazeera

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 was a microcosm of how tense the toss-up race has become. Democratic 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.

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