JD Vance’s mother says she’d “probably punch” El-Sayed over family remarks
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US Vice President JD Vance’s mother said she would “probably punch” Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if she ever encountered him, after remarks he made about the second family.
Beverly Vance Aikins made the comments Wednesday during an appearance on Tomi Lahren’s OutKick program “Tomi Lahren is Fearless.”
“I’d probably punch the guy if I ever seen him, and then that would get me in trouble. So, I’ll just go with the flow,” she said.
Aikins called El-Sayed an “idiot” and emphasized her protective stance toward her grandchildren.
“Those are my babies,” she said. She added that El-Sayed’s comments angered her “because he doesn’t know JD, and he doesn’t know, you know, what type of person he is, and I do.”
The remarks in question include comments El-Sayed made in an April appearance on “The Allen Analysis Show.”
He referred to the Vance children as “brown kids” and suggested they would one day have “a really awkward conversation” with their father about his political views on people who are different.
More recently, El-Sayed posted on X about Vance’s late grandfather (“Papaw”), asking whether Vance would take Second Lady Usha Vance “back in time to meet Papaw.”
“I think they’re jealous, honestly. I mean, JD is 42 years old. He’s handsome. He’s the vice president of the United States. He’s got a beautiful wife, four beautiful children, and jealousy is the only thing I can think of,” she said.
“I love Usha as if she were my own daughter.”
The family comments have drawn strong pushback from the Vances themselves.
At a Michigan rally on Monday supporting Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, Vance told El-Sayed: “Whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth, because she’s way out of your league.”
Usha Vance previously addressed related criticism in an interview, saying she laughed at the implication involving Vance’s grandparents and stressing that his mother, aunt, and uncle “have never been anything but incredibly loving.”
Aikins said El-Sayed “can take all the shots he wants. It’s going to get no merit from any of us.”
The exchange adds a personal dimension to the heated Michigan Senate race between El-Sayed and Rogers, with Vance actively campaigning for the Republican.
