Radicals, racism and racing: inside Michigan’s midterm election

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There is probably nowhere in the US where the midterms have been more fiercely fought than in Michigan, where Democratic senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's call to tax billionaires and give medicare to all has become a key test over whether the left-wing, progressive ideas that stormed New York can win in a midwest swing state.
Radical ideas that have brought vicious attacks, first by establishment Democrats then Donald Trump, who has focused relentlessly on this race, not just on El-Sayed's politics but his religion too.

Meanwhile, Trump's second term has come at voters in a fast and furious way. Even in Detroit, once the car-making, manufacturing capital of the world.

On the eve of the midterms, we ask Michiganders if they want things to slow down.