Vance says ‘crazy’ el Sayed would hurt middle class and auto industry

Published August 8, 2026 12:47pm ET | Updated August 8, 2026 12:47pm ET



Vice President JD Vance took a swing at Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate, leftist Abdul el Sayed, calling him “crazy” in an interview on Saturday morning.

“The problem with el Sayed is that he is a person who claims to stand for working people, and yet he opposed [President] Donald Trump‘s policies that have quite literally saved the Michigan auto industry,” Vance said on Fox News’s Saturday in America.

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