A Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan is drawing backlash after a podcast appearance in which he took personal shots at Vice President JD Vance, second lady Usha Vance and the couple’s children.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for a U.S. Senate seat, made the remarks on The Allen Analysis Show, posted Friday. In the clip, El-Sayed mocked the Vances’ marriage and suggested the vice president’s politics will force an “awkward conversation” with his kids.
What do you think is going through Usha’s head when he talks? She’s like, ‘Damn, I have to sleep with him,’ El-Sayed said.
He followed that with another jab about the family.
I guess she’s pregnant so something is happening, El-Sayed continued, Can you imagine, he’s got Brown kids, at some point he’s going to have a really awkward conversation with his kids, like, you made your career hating people who are different.
El-Sayed also argued that Vance’s political worldview doesn’t square with the makeup of his family and claimed the vice president’s soul is “corrupted” by power.
“He’s got to look at his kids and be like, ‘Yeah, those are Brown kids, they’re mine,’ El-Sayed said. ‘You know what I mean? And I had Brown kids. I had Brown kids?”
“He kept going, saying, I love my Brown kids, and I think my Brown kids are just as American as everyone else. JD Vance has Brown kids who he thinks are less American than everyone else.”
El-Sayed also insulted Vance’s presence on the national stage, calling him the “charisma of a doorknob” and the “aura of a toad,” and urged Usha Vance to “get out” of the marriage.
Abdul El-Sayed, a top contender in Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary, cracks crude sex jokes about Usha Vance and urges her to “get out” of her marriage.
He then goes into a cruel riff about the Vice President’s children: “@JDVance has brown kids who he thinks are less American… pic.twitter.com/0dM0zp1dLb
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The comments lit up conservative critics online, who accused El-Sayed of veering from political debate into crude, personal attacks that drag a spouse and children into campaign warfare.
Former Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon was among those condemning the remarks, saying she doubts the approach will land with voters in a state where family and faith still matter.
When you’re running on racial division, you have to keep stoking racism, especially if you’re the racist, Dixon told Fox News Digital. Imagine smugly trying to break up a family because you don’t believe a White man can love his children. Pretty pathetic, and I think Michigan voters will agree.
Others echoed that sentiment across social media.
This isn’t politics, Rev. Jordan Wells, founder of Christians Against Antisemitism Institute, posted on X, calling the comments a “low blow.” This is personal, cruel, and straight-up disgusting.
Conservative influencer Laura Loomer criticized what she called “derogatory sexual comments,” while Townhall writer Amy Curtis posted, Democrats are trash.
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is set for Aug. 4. El-Sayed is facing Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens for the nomination, with former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers waiting in the general election.
Fox News Digital said it reached out to Vance’s office and El-Sayed’s campaign for comment.
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