{"id":2652465,"date":"2026-08-31T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-to-el-sayed-keep-my-wifes-name-the-hell-out-of-your-mouth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:32:34","slug":"vance-to-el-sayed-keep-my-wifes-name-the-hell-out-of-your-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-to-el-sayed-keep-my-wifes-name-the-hell-out-of-your-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance to el Sayed: \u2018Keep my wife&#8217;s name the hell out of your mouth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-to-el-sayed-keep-my-wifes-name-the-hell-out-of-your-mouth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2652465&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>JD Vance, the Vice President, responded strongly to Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul el Sayed, who had implied that Vance would not have introduced his wife Usha Vance to her Indian grandfather due to her heritage. During a rally in Michigan, Vance emphasized that he would never disrespect his family by discussing others&#8217; wives publicly and criticized el Sayed for focusing on his family inappropriately. Vance also condemned el Sayed for his associations with socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and accused him of making divisive comments. The rivalry intensified as el Sayed had previously questioned weather Vance would have introduced his wife to his grandfather. Despite remarks from el Sayed, Usha Vance expressed amusement and admiration for Vance&#8217;s family background, noting she had never met his grandparents but loved his relatives. The exchange underscored the tensions and personal attacks shaping their political contest.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"7658\">JD Vance<\/a> had a pointed response to Democratic Michigan <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"8765\">Senate<\/a> nominee <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abdul-el-sayed\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"23138\">Abdul el Sayed<\/a>, who last weekend appeared to imply Vance would have never introduced his wife, second lady <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/usha-vance\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"11769\">Usha Vance<\/a>, to his grandfather because of her Indian heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a rally for President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> super PAC MAGA Inc. in Michigan on Monday, Vance told a crowd at\u00a0Universal Contracting and Urban Tree Trimming\u00a0that he would never come to the state and \u201cdisrespect somebody\u2019s family by talking about another person\u2019s wife, a person who isn\u2019t on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4706683\/abdul-el-sayed-campaign-reset-hasan-piker-fallout\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Abdul el Sayed seeks campaign reset amid Hasan Piker fallout<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4706658\/brad-lander-heckler-zionist-israel-protest\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  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the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAbdul el Sayed, every time they put a microphone in front of his face, he wants to talk about my wife or my grandfather,\u201d Vance said at the rally. \u201cI actually think that the people of Michigan think it\u2019s kind of weird when you talk about another guy\u2019s wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance said that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michigan\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"655\">Michigan<\/a> voters would rather have el Sayed to discuss the issues impacting them, including \u201chow you\u2019re going to protect auto workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife\u2019s name the hell out of your mouth because she\u2019s way out of your league,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the rally to support Michigan Republicans, Vance also underscored el Sayed\u2019s controversial relationship with socialist Twitch streamer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hasan-piker\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"22479\">Hasan Piker<\/a>, a dynamic that has underpinned his Senate race against former Michigan Republican Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-rogers\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1022\">Mike Rogers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy message to Abdul el Sayed is: You can pal around with terrorist sympathizers, and you can say that America deserved 9\/11, or you could empathize, not with the children who were targeted at Temple Israel, but with the attacker,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are all despicable things, but they\u2019re all things that the people of Michigan will judge you on based on your record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The comments come as Vance and el Sayed have increasingly taken shots at each other. Last week, el Sayed took a swipe at Vance for invoking his grandfather, a union welder, during a factory tour in Ohio. El Sayed responded to the comments by asking whether Vance would have introduced the second lady to his grandfather if he had the chance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elder Vance, known as \u201cPapaw,\u201d died in 1997, years before the vice president and second lady met at Yale Law School.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JApcsCW4kU\">https:\/\/t.co\/JApcsCW4kU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AbdulElSayed\/status\/2091151440433623395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the swipe, Usha Vance told Fox News that she \u201ckind of laughed\u201d when first advised of el Sayed\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4704341\/obama-summoned-to-action-as-gop-widens-cash-advantage\/\"><strong>OBAMA SUMMONED TO ACTION AS GOP WIDENS CASH ADVANTAGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI never met JD\u2019s Mamaw and Papaw,\u201d Usha Vance said. \u201cBut, I do know and love the children that they raised \u2014 his mom, his aunt, and uncle. And they have never been anything but incredibly loving. His aunt is like a second mother to me. So, I have to think that if they raised children like that, they would\u2019ve been loving as well. And I would\u2019ve really, really loved to have met them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance responds to Sayed over wife\u2019s heritage comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2652466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-umqb9uifb-1788205658167-e1788207996825.jpg?1788191357&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50410,81734,5894,32364,15469],"class_list":["post-2652465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-controversy-2","tag-el-sayed","tag-politics","tag-social-media","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-collage-umqb9uifb-1788205658167-e1788207996825.jpg?1788191357&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652468,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652465\/revisions\/2652468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}