If he wins the election, Mr El-Sayed has pledged universal healthcare to all Michiganders if it fails on the federal level. He has also said he will push to legalise marijuana, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and make Michigan a “sanctuary state”.

Earlier this month, following a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Mr Trump suggested that new-Nazis and hate groups were not 100 per cent responsible for the violence that had erupted at the event. Mr Trump’s comments were widely condemned by both Republicans and Democrats but were lauded by members of hate groups.

“I can tell you that my ability to practice my faith in person, in my own home, when I choose to, where I’m allowed to, because of freedoms in this country have everything to do with that separation of church and state,” he said. “If I am going to want to be able to put my face on the ground 34 times a day, like I do, because I’m Muslim, I want to make sure no one can take that right away from me. And I will not take that right away from anyone else.