JD Vance tells Abdul el Sayed to ‘keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth’

Published August 31, 2026 4:27pm ET



Vice President JD Vance had a pointed response to Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed, who last weekend appeared to imply Vance would have never introduced his wife, second lady Usha Vance, to his grandfather because of her Indian heritage.

During a rally for President Donald Trump’s super PAC MAGA Inc. in Michigan on Monday, Vance told a crowd at Universal Contracting and Urban Tree Trimming that he would never come to the state and “disrespect somebody’s family by talking about another person’s wife, a person who isn’t on the ballot.”

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