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Article snippet: Sen. MORE (D-Ind.) and his Republican opponent Mike Braun are running a tight race just one week before the midterm elections, and both used their final debate Tuesday night to double down on the central arguments of their respective campaigns. Donnelly tried painting himself as a bipartisan senator who is able to work with MORE, while Braun re-asserted himself as an “outsider” businessman who knows how to get things done in the real world. The debate, which took place in Indianapolis, the state’s capital, focused largely on health care, immigration and the national debt. Here are five takeaways from the final Indiana Senate debate. Both candidates continued to tie themselves to Trump Both Braun and Donnelly continued to associate themselves with Trump, as they did throughout the first debate. Donnelly, a vulnerable Democrat in a state that Trump won in 2016, framed his ties to the president as proof of his bipartisan tendencies. He repeatedly touted his support for Trump’s signature border wall and the fact that Trump tapped him to help a bipartisan group of lawmakers on creating an immigration bill. “I was part of the group that the president asked to put legislation together,” Donnelly said. “I was one of the 10 Democrats that worked with the president on this.” “I’ve passed 50 pieces of legislation with a Republican partner every single time and Mike can’t even name a single Democrat that he would work with,” he added later. Braun meanwhile lavished praise on... Link to the full article to read more