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HOWELL, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance ripped Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed as a “psychopath” during a trip to Michigan Tuesday — claiming that the lefty candidate was “ashamed” of the state, is pushing “anti-white racial hatred,” and will likely kill off the local auto industry.
Vance used his high-profile visit to make a last-ditch pitch to swing voters that El-Sayed was an unacceptable radical — as polls show him virtually tied with or leading Republican Mike Rogers one week from Election Day.
“Abdul El Sayed is a little bit of a psychopath, and we’re going to just try to make the argument as well as we can and help Mike out a little bit,” Vance said before boarding Air Force Two en route to a rally attended by several hundred people outside Detroit.
El-Sayed has “engaged in the kind of explicitly anti-white racial hatred” perhaps “more than any Democrat running in the nation,” the veep boomed, calling the candidate “a guy who seems to love to traffic in racial hatred.”
Vance did not provide additional detail on his allegation that El-Sayed was a racist.
When he arrived in Michigan, Vance told a cheering crowd that El-Sayed was an extremist.
If recent rioting in France spread to Detroit, El-Sayed would be “right there and cheering them on,” he said.
“Abdul El-Sayed was born just north of Detroit in a town called Rochester Hills. Yet he is claiming to be, and I quote, ‘an immigrant from North Africa.’ For decades, he’s gone even further than that. He told people he is an Egyptian citizen,” the VP said.
“Why? Why would you tell people that you were not from the community that you’re actually from? It’s an insane claim to make… [He is] a man who would lie, who is so ashamed of this state that he would lie about being an immigrant from another continent.”
Vance added that El-Sayed “says that he wants to pass the green new scam and kill the auto industry of this state” and has “campaigned with his best friend Hassan Piker, a man who said that we deserved 9/11.”
The broadsides come as El-Sayed leads Rogers by 2.5 percentage points, according to the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls.
Vance brushed off former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s vehement opposition to Rogers, a hawkish former chairman of the House intelligence committee, calling the Republican “fundamentally a decent guy and the kind of public servant that you want in Washington, D.C.”
He also stopped short of embracing President Trump’s characterization of El-Sayed, who is Muslim, as a “jihadist,” saying instead, “I don’t know what’s in the guy’s heart. I just know he has a lot of weird friends.”
El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
