Abdul El-Sayed Mocks VP Vance's Beard, Accuses Him Of Using Testosterone Therapy: "I'm All Natural, Bro"
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Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed challenged Vice President JD Vance to a weightlifting competition in an interview with a TMZ reporter during his visit to Capitol Hill.

ABDUL EL-SAYED, DEMOCRATIC MICHIGAN U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE: I had an opportunity to sit down with a lot of my colleagues yesterday, and these are folks who are motivated, they're excited, they understand that when we take power back in elections like mine, a lot of them are going to hold-

TMZ REPORTER: We'll see. I mean, that's the thing, I think people just think they're weak.

[CROSSTALK]

EL-SAYED: Ohio J.D. Vance, amped up on TRT with a beard that, you know, I don't know, frankly, somebody should tell me if it's real. If I actually met him, I'd be like, all right, let's just actually see, how much paste did you have to put on your face to get that little-

REPORTER: You would do that. If you saw him, you'd really go like, hey, man.

EL-SAYED: At least, I mean, at least mine is what you see is what you get. And at the end of the day, with my beard, look, I'm happy to say if he thinks that my beard is somehow indicative of my strength, I'm happy to invite him to any weight room in any place. We could do it in DC, and let's see. I'd love to see him on a bench. I'd love to see him on a squat. I'd love to understand if he's as strong as he likes to pretend he is.

REPORTER: A bench off. I'd be there. I'd be the judge.

EL-SAYED: We could squat. We could run. Whatever he wants to do. JD, listen, man. You talk a good game. You went to Ohio State, didn't even know how to handle the trophy when you had to pick it up, right? And now you're on what, like juiced up on TRT. I'm all natural, bro.

REPORTER: Okay, sh*t.

EL-SAYED: So, I'd like to understand what your dose is, and I'd like to understand if your beard's actually real. And at the end of the day, the bigger question, my issue with you is not your beard, right? As much as you want to make it about my beard.

My issue with you is that you are out here writing policy that you know is stupid. That's the thing. You know the tariff war is stupid. You know the Iran war is stupid. You know it. You know you look at that guy on the other side in the White House and be like, damn, what's a fool going to do today?

And then you go out there, face a bunch of cameras, and defend policy you know to be stupid that's hurting all kinds of people in my state and yours. And then you try to act the tough guy because you can't be a tough guy to the actual boss because you're afraid of him even though he's like, I don't know. I mean, you've seen him.

REPORTER: I see you, man. You're calling him out. You're calling him out. All right, man. Well, thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.