Vance characterizes Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed as ‘evil’

STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance described Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic nominee for the Senate, as “evil” during a campaign rally here Monday.

“I realize that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today,” said Vance, addressing several hundred people at an event put on by MAGA Inc., a super PAC closely aligned with President Donald Trump.

“And it’s people who see themselves not as citizens of a common nation fighting for every single person — whether they’re Jewish or Christian, whether they’re white or Black or brown — but see themselves as fighting for one group at the expense of others, and that is how, ladies and gentlemen, you destroy the United States of America,” he added.

El-Sayed, who is Muslim, recently apologized for his response after an attack on a Michigan synagogue in March. In a video he posted to social media then, El-Sayed condemned the attack and added that “hurt people hurt people” — comments that critics have characterized as wrongly empathetic toward someone who violently targeted Jewish people.

“My comments may have been misconstrued to justify something I did not mean…

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