Vance: El-Sayed Should "Shut His Mouth And Show A Little Gratitude To The Country That Gave Him Everything"
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Vice President JD Vance called out Michigan Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed for "hatred in his heart" at a campaign rally for Republican Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers.

"I feel bad for Abdul El Sayed," Vance said on Thursday. "Because I don't understand. I don't understand how this man could have so much hatred in his heart for the people and the places that gave him so much opportunity. I don't know why he resents the things that he does. Perhaps it's because he sees them as too white or too proud or too American. But what I do know is this."

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Will you accept someone who says that we should defund the police? Will you accept somebody who says that we have to abandon Detroit's most vulnerable citizens, black and white, to the criminals, rather than empowering our police to go after those criminals?

Ladies and gentlemen, I know you. I know this state. And for all the ribbon I give you as an Ohio guy, the fundamental reality is that we are cut from the same cloth. All of this. And all of this crap from El Sayed. The contempt for our heritage. The excuse making for terrorists. The saying we deserve 9-11. This is not who you are. You are a state with a proud history. You are the state that when Americans needed an arsenal during the Second World War, this state said aye-aye and they went and got to work.

This state brought together 40,000 workers under one roof on an assembly line a mile long. Americans who were black and white. They were from eastern Kentucky and the Mississippi Delta. Men and women alike. All working together to build the new B-24 bomber every single hour on repeat. You look at this, and how can you not feel proud of it?

How can you not say our family, our people, our Michigan workers built that? But Abdul El Sayed looks at them and says, They're bigots. Your grandparents. Your great-grandparents. The men and women who transformed Michigan into the industrial capital, not of the United States, but of the world. And Abdul wants you to be ashamed of that heritage. But Michigan, take it from me, you have got nothing to be ashamed of. Let's be proud of Michigan, and let's vote for Mike Rogers.

You don't need to be ashamed of your ancestors. Don't be ashamed of the factories they built. Don't be ashamed of Friday night football. Don't be ashamed of fireworks on Independence Day. And most certainly, do not be ashamed of Mackinac Island. You know, I'll be honest with you.

I feel bad for Abdul El Sayed. Because I don't understand. I don't understand how this man could have so much hatred in his heart for the people and the places that gave him so much opportunity. I don't know why he resents the things that he does. Perhaps it's because he sees them as too white or too proud or too American. But what I do know is this.

That Michigan deserves better. You deserve better than a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude to the country that gave him everything. You deserve a senator who is grateful to this country.

You deserve a senator who spent his life serving it, in uniform and out. You deserve a senator who looks at this state and sees something to protect and to build upon, not something to apologize for. Ladies and gentlemen, you deserve Senator Abdul El Sayed.