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El-Sayed Mocked Vance’s Children as Less American – The VP Let Him Have It

Updated: POLITICS

There is a threshold of behavior that disqualifies you from being taken seriously as a candidate for the United States Senate. Abdul El-Sayed crossed it in April, and JD Vance has now made sure Michigan voters know exactly what he said.

In a podcast interview recorded months before the primary, El-Sayed went after Vance’s children — Usha Vance’s children, three American kids who have nothing to do with Senate primaries or political campaigns. “He has brown kids. At some point, he’s going to have to have a really awkward conversation with his kids, like — you made your career hating people who are different,” El-Sayed said. “How do you tell your brown kids they aren’t as American as everyone else?”

Those children are seven, five, and three years old. And Vance has never, ever been credibly accused of “hating people who are different.” In reality, that’s El-Sayed and his garbage Democrat Party, most of whom believe Jews and Israel have no right to exist – the same view held by Adolph Hitler and his Nazis.

Vance’s response on Fox News Saturday was measured given what was said: “I think the guy is crazy and would be a terrible senator for the people of Michigan. He’s also gone after my kids. He’s just kind of an odd guy.”

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“Odd” is the polite version. A man who uses a politician’s young children to make a point about immigration politics isn’t strategically clever. He’s telling you exactly who he is — the kind of person who will say anything to anyone, including weaponize toddlers, if he thinks it scores a point.

The kids attack isn’t the only sign El-Sayed isn’t ready for this race. In a different interview, he called Mackinac Island — the governor’s summer residence and one of Michigan’s most iconic landmarks — a place he’s always hated. “Every time I’ve ever come here, I’ve hated it. Why am I here?” he said, apparently forgetting that video exists and that running for Senate in Michigan means occasionally being asked about Michigan.

Mike Rogers, who spent years hunting actual terrorists, has been letting El-Sayed do his own damage while presenting the straightforward contrast: “The vast majority of Michiganders think Abdul El-Sayed is too extreme, and know that we have a state to save.”

He’s right. CNN’s Harry Enten observed that El-Sayed lost all 15 Michigan counties with the lowest percentage of college degrees — which means he won a Democratic primary on the backs of college towns and the DSA apparatus while demonstrating almost no appeal to the working-class voters who actually decide general elections in the state.

El-Sayed can mock JD Vance’s charisma and call his children less American. He can tell podcast audiences he hates Michigan’s most famous island. He can build a primary coalition out of DSA activists and Hasan Piker’s Twitch followers.

And in November, Mike Rogers will win Michigan.

The kids deserved better than being used as props. Michigan deserves better than Abdul El-Sayed. On both counts, voters will have their say.