Like, if you asked someone from here to create an image of "a stand up guy's guy" in Michigan, the image that would come back would look almost exactly like El-Sayed did during the campaign stop with the black t-shirt and blue jeans. A bit tall but not too tall. Toned but practically muscular not a body builder. Classic midwestern fashionable without APPEARING like he gives his look a second thought at all. That's Detroit "man's man cool" in a nutshell.
So I know it was on purpose.