Whitmer and Schuette argue over a debate in Grand Rapids

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Whitmer called the television interview featuring Schuette "weird," but she said, "I do not care about this video, I care about dealing with issues that really matter to people in this state."

She then sued Schuette for taking numerous legal actions as Attorney General to try to overturn the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. She said that if Schuette had succeeded, his actions would have ended Medicare protections for patients with pre-existing conditions.

Schuette replied that Obamacare did not work. He added that insurance premiums had increased and that insurance exchanges put in place to allow people to buy a blanket were not working. "So I sued," he said. But he added that he had always claimed that he preferred protections preventing insurance companies from refusing to sell policies to people with pre-existing health conditions.

The news about the dilapidated Gilchrist property in Detroit was announced for the first time on Friday by Deadline Detroit. Gilchrist attempted to come back in his 2009 tweets about Israel and Hamas, claiming that he supported Israel and commented on a complex situation that he did not understand perfectly.

Schuette's complaint that Whitmer wants to abolish ICE – a position advanced by some members of the Democratic Party's left wing – stems from a television interview at a rally in Lansing on June 30, at the during which Whitmer nods assertively as she goes away and says, "Yes, I think our governor should step in," in response to questions about whether ICE should be abolished after separation families on the US-Mexican border.

The "truth group" of Bridge Magazine described Schuette's "misleading" accusation, noting that she had explicitly stated that, even if she condemned some of the ICE actions at the border, she did not think that the agency should be abolished. Bridge called Whitmer's answer to the ICE question "not his best moment in an election campaign".

Whitmer said after the debate that she was aware of the problem of the Gilchrist building in Detroit before choosing him as a vice-presidential candidate and that both had discussed the issue, but she was not not aware of the "imminent need to fix it" until recently. It will happen now, she said.

In the area of ​​education, where Schuette had promised to put more emphasis on reading and creating a position as a literacy officer in the firm, Mr. Whitmer repeated many times times that by fighting a lawsuit filed in 2016 on behalf of Detroit Metro students, Schuette officials had upheld constitutional right to literacy.

The two men also clashed over Michigan's state roads, Schuette warning that Whitmer had planned a major tax hike, such as a 20-cent-gallon increase in the price of gasoline.

"Gretchen Whitmer wants to raise your taxes – I'm going to protect your wallet," Schuette said.

Whitmer said this too was wrong. If the legislature did not collect more revenue from user charges and taxes, it would use a $ 2 billion bond from the government to access an additional $ 1 billion from the federal government to "repair these damn roads", costs that, according to her, are already costing hundreds of Michigan residents dollars a year in additional road repair costs.

"Bill's plan (repairing the roads) has two steps," said Whitmer. "Get elected and determine, we deserve better."

Before the debate, a small group of anti-Schuette protesters stood on the sidewalk in front of the TV studio.

The Friday night debate was the first of two scheduled meetings between Whitmer and Schuette. The next is scheduled for October 24 at WDIV-TV (Channel 4) in Detroit.