Vice President JD Vance absolutely unloaded on far-left Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Monday after the Democrat repeatedly targeted Second Lady Usha Vance and members of Vance’s family.
Vance, who is in Michigan campaigning for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers, made it personal after El-Sayed spent weeks smearing Usha Vance.
“Now, the last thing I’ll say about Abdul, Mr. El-Sayed, is he has a weird habit of talking about my family. Have you noticed this? Yeah,” Vance said.
“You know, look, I don’t know who his wife is. I’m sure she’s a lovely person, but I would never come to this state and disrespect you or disrespect somebody’s family by talking about another person’s wife, a person who isn’t on the ballot. And yet, Abdul El-Sayed, every time they put a microphone in front of his face, he wants to talk about my wife or my grandfather.”
Vance noted he is “feeling especially protective” because the family has a 5-week-old baby at home and Usha “is doing great and taking great care of him.”
Then he dropped the hammer.
“My message to Abdul El-Sayed is you can pal around with terrorist sympathizers and you can say that America deserved 9/11, or you could empathize not with the children who were targeted at Temple Israel, or— but with the attacker. These are all despicable things, but they’re all things that the people of Michigan will judge you on based on your record. But I actually think that the people of Michigan think it’s kind of weird. When you talk about another guy’s wife. I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about the public policy ideas you have to make their ideas better.”
He continued: “I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about how you’re going to protect autoworkers when you’re supporting every single policy that has undercut the wages and jobs of Michigan autoworkers your entire life in public service.”
“But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth because she’s way out of your league.”
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.@VP JD Vance unloaded on radical Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Monday, blasting the far-left candidate for his “weird habit” of attacking Vance’s wife, @SLOTUS Usha Vance, and his family instead of talking about policy. pic.twitter.com/Iq7KfG9hOU
— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) August 31, 2026
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that El-Sayed took what many interpreted as a race-baiting swipe at Usha Vance, who is Indian-American, after the Vice President criticized the Democrat’s radical record.
“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…” El-Sayed sneered in an August 22 post on X.
The remark came after Vance said he would like to go back in time and tell his late grandfather—a lifelong working-class Democrat—that the modern Democrat Party had nominated a candidate who equated opposition to Sharia law with white supremacy.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, El-Sayed’s cheap shot appeared to suggest that Vance’s white, working-class Ohio family would not have accepted Usha because of her ethnicity.
Usha responded with grace, saying she “kind of laughed” at El-Sayed’s attack because Vance’s family had always treated her with love.
“His aunt is like a second mother to me,” Usha said. “I have to think that, if they raised children like that, they would’ve been loving as well.”
Michigan will decide in November whether they want more of radical socialist El-Sayed or whether they prefer a senator who actually represents working families instead of attacking them.
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