Dr El-Sayed aims to make history as the first Muslim elected to the Senate.
Their tight Senate race grew more heated over the weekend when US Representative Haley Stevens, who lost the Democratic primary to Dr El-Sayed, switched to backing her Republican rival.
Afterwards, Dr El-Sayed’s campaign said it raised $2.4million on Sunday, its largest single-day fundraising haul, fueled by small-dollar donations.
Dr El-Sayed, an Egyptian American Muslim born in Michigan, has been targeted by President Donald Trump and other Republicans who have questioned his loyalty to the US and baselessly called him a terrorist sympathiser.
The Democrat has called questions about his loyalty to the US “shameful.”
