{"id":658051,"date":"2026-08-26T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658051"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:30:27","slug":"el-sayed-takes-racial-swipe-at-usha-vance-she-answers-with-class-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658051","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed takes racial swipe at Usha Vance \u2014 she answers with class"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Second lady Usha Vance has responded to what critics have called a\u00a0\u201cracist\u201d dig from Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.<\/p>\n

The drama started last week when, while speaking at a steel plant in Ohio, Vice President JD Vance aimed fire at El-Sayed over his past remarks linking criticism of Sharia law to so-called white supremacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe once argued, not too long ago, that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy,\u201d Vance said. \u201cI\u2019d love to go back in time and tell my papaw that there is a man who claims to stand for working people who says not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it you\u2019re a white supremacist. That\u2019s not my grandpa\u2019s Democratic Party, my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen:<\/p>\n

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Vance on El-Sayed: I would love to go back in time and tell my papaw, that there is a man who claims to stand for working people, who says not only should we have sharia law, but if you criticize it, you are a white supremacist. pic.twitter.com\/t7RqCCJt5Y<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) August 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to the New York Post<\/a>, \u201cVance\u2019s grandparents died years before he met Usha in 2010 when they were both students at Yale Law School. The vice president credited James Vance, his papaw, with being a stabilizing and influential figure in his life while growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n

El-Sayed fired back with a disturbing tweet posted Saturday in which he suggested that Vance\u2019s grandparents wouldn\u2019t have been accepting of Usha on account of her Indian ancestry.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no\u2026\u201d the Michigan Democrat tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tweet prompted massive backlash, with critics accusing El-Sayed of being a \u201cracist creep,\u201d among other things. He later doubled down in an MS-NOW interview late Saturday, according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe confusing thing about it is that he thinks that there are some people who are more American than others because they can point to their papaw who was here earlier,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd my question to him is simply: Why is it then, how do you look your parents-in-law in the eye and say that somehow they\u2019re less American than you are? Because that\u2019s what he\u2019s implying there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usha, meanwhile, was asked about El-Sayed\u2019s tweet during a \u201cFox & Friends<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 interview on Fox News days later.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I have to admit, I kind of laughed because yes, I never met JD\u2019s mama and papa, but I do know and love the children that they raised \u2014 you know, his mom, his aunt, and uncle \u2014 and they have never been anything but incredibly loving,\u201d Usha said in an interview slated to air in full Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Listen to a preview clip from the interview below:<\/p>\n

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Usha Vance responds to Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s dig about whether JD Vance would take her \u201cback in time to meet Papaw.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second lady says she laughed off the far-left candidates comment about their personal lives, saying she\u2019s always felt at home with her husband\u2019s Ohio family.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/cRkinyUKgg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI mean, his aunt is like a second mother to me,\u201d Usha continued. \u201cAnd so I have to think that if they raised children like that, they would have been loving as well. And I would have really, really, really loved to have met them.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also spoke about her first time visiting Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had never been to Ohio before meeting JD,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI had no idea what to expect. He makes fun of me because I thought it would look more like Iowa, which obviously it does not. And whatever expectations I might\u2019ve had were blown up when I got there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s a culturally diverse place in many ways. It has all sorts of traditions that were new to me in other ways, but the people are so welcoming. Everyone has been really loving. They are my family. They treat me like their family,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n

In his 2016 memoir, \u201cHillbilly Elegy,\u201d the vice president reportedly wrote that one of his \u201cgreat regrets\u201d in life was that his grandparents died before they could meet his wife.<\/p>\n

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