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Less than two weeks before Election Day, Michigan’s two Senate candidates met for the last time in a Southfield television studio just outside Detroit. It’s a race that could decide which party controls the U.S. Senate, and the contest between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers has become one of the most personal of the year.
On Wednesday night it came down to two questions: whether El-Sayed, a Michigan-born Muslim, can be trusted, and whether Rogers can keep Donald Trump’s voters while stepping carefully out of the president’s shadow.
For El-Sayed, the first question cuts deep. At the debate’s hottest moment, the child of Egyptian immigrants turned from the moderators to face Rogers directly.
“I am proud of America. I’m proud to be an American,” he said, adding that the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to pray as they choose.
His opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, has spent the closing weeks of the race making the opposite case: that El-Sayed has based his campaign on deception about his true nature. Rogers has charged that El-Sayed won’t condemn the Muslim Brotherhood, and that his campaign takes money from people and groups that support the jihadist organization and openly back terrorist organizations including Hamas, Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda.
El-Sayed, who would be the first Muslim member of the U.S. Senate if he wins, denies any ties to the Brotherhood and has condemned Hamas. On Wednesday he told Rogers the attacks were “really quite beneath you, Mike.”
Michigan’s race for the open seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters is one of the eight swing state races currently polling within the margin of error. In the RealClearPolitics Poll Average, Rogers trails El-Sayed by 2 percentage points. Republicans have not won a Senate race in the........