A Michigan Democrat running for U.S. Senate just made some of the most disgusting comments we’ve heard in a long time. And that’s saying something.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for a Senate seat in Michigan, went on a podcast and decided to take vicious personal shots at Vice President JD Vance, Second Lady Usha Vance, and their children.
We’re talking about attacking kids. Brown children, specifically, as El-Sayed put it. He actually used the racial makeup of the Vance family to try and score cheap political points. It’s beyond disgusting.
And it’s not just the racial angle. He made crude sexual comments about the Vice President and Second Lady on top of it. Real classy stuff from a guy who wants to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate.
Take a look:
“JD Vance has Brown kids who he thinks are less American than everyone else."
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 20, 2026
Far-left Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed facing major backlash over multiple comments he made about Vice President JD Vance and his children.
The Michigan Democrat said that the VP’s political… pic.twitter.com/CTOajffJfl
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley weighed in on the controversy as well, calling out the ugly trend of using children for political attacks:
Nothing says an age of rage like using children for racist screeds. This week, Abdul El-Sayed is in the news for attacking Vance over his "brown children" and raising his sex life. https://t.co/CxEixMtOxh The left just cannot seem to resist attacks on the conservative kinder…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 20, 2026
Fox News reported on the backlash:
“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 on “The Allen Analysis Show” posted on Friday.
“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 said on the podcast appearance that Vance has the “charisma of a doorknob” and the “aura of a toad” while urging Usha Vance to “get out” of the marriage.
Imagine saying that about someone’s family and thinking it helps your campaign. The man literally told a woman to leave her husband on a public podcast. While she’s pregnant.
The Gateway Pundit added more context on El-Sayed’s track record:
Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a Muslim and socialist, is proof that not all press is good press. He is already under fire for openly and proudly campaigning with controversial pro-Hamas/pro-Hezbollah influencer Hasan Piker.
A campaign event last August took a dark turn when he suggested “choking out” opponents. “We don’t back down,” El-Sayed said to wild applause. “When they go low, we don’t go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out!”
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So this is a guy who campaigns with pro-Hamas influencers, talks about choking out political opponents, and now attacks the Vice President’s children based on their race. Michigan voters are going to see right through this.
Former Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon summed it up perfectly when she told Fox News, “When you’re running on racial division, you have to keep stoking racism, especially if you’re the racist.”
El-Sayed is running in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary against state Sen. Mallory McMorrow and Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens. The primary is scheduled for August 4.
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