Vance: What Does It Say About El-Sayed That He "Invented A Totally Fictitious Background" For Himself As A Foreigner?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/15/vance_what_does_it_say_about_el-sayed_that_he_invented_a_totally_fictitious_background_for_himself_as_a_foreigner.html

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 (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/10/15/vance_el-sayed_should_shut_his_mouth_and_show_a_little_gratitude_to_the_country_that_gave_him_everything.html).

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: And Abdul had every opportunity to love the place where he grew up and he had every opportunity to love the place and feel grateful for it. He had every opportunity to feel gratitude for a country that gave him a happy upbringing, that gave him high quality schools with good teachers, that made him captain of his high school sports team. But instead of feeling gratitude or instead of feeling love, he chose, he made a choice to embrace the politics of grievance that is hell bent on our national self-suicide.

You listen to the man talk and it's clear Abdul doesn't love this community, Democrat or Republican. He doesn't love the people who live here. He hates the history of the United States of America.

He calls our nation irredeemably racist. He calls the United States of America genocidal and he hates the people who built it. People like my grandfather who was for 40 years a union welder at the Middletown works of Armco Steel in Ohio.

Abdul says that men like this, men like you, men like your father and grandfather and your son were bigots. He said my Papaw, one of the greatest men that I have ever known, the man who raised me when my own mom and dad struggled, was incapable and he said this, go and look it up, that my Papaw was incapable of loving my darling wife and our amazing second lady for the simple fact that he was white and she is not. Abdul said this despite being raised in part by his own white step grandfathers and I can only imagine if he says that in public what he says about you when the cameras aren't on.

So deep is Sayed's contempt for this nation that he lies about the most fundamental parts of who he is. He's introduced himself and I quote as an immigrant from North Africa. Well ladies and gentlemen, I think that while we love anybody who wants to make a better life in this country, you ought to be damn proud of coming from the state of Michigan and you ought to sing it from the rooftops.

But you can't make this up. He invented a totally fictitious background for himself, not as a Michigander born an hour north of where we stand today, but as a foreigner who came here from 6,000 miles away. What does it say about your love of your community when you literally lie?

You are so ashamed of this place that you lie about where you came from. Now if you look at his history, he's told similar lies across his career. For over a decade he has falsely claimed himself as a dual citizen of Egypt just to sound less American.

My friends, ask yourself this. Why? Why would he lie?

What is it that animates Abdul El Sayed and drives him to seek public office? It is not the well-being of his fellow Americans. It's not the hopes or aspirations of the amazing auto workers of Detroit or the students of Ann Arbor or families in Flint.

No. What excites him is this prospect of wielding the power of a country he hates. He wants to litigate ancient grievances with your tax dollars and he wants to use the grievances of faraway lands to punish you.

Well I say on November the 3rd, send a message to Abdul El-Sayed. Punish him. Don't send him to Washington D.C.