{"id":212843,"date":"2026-09-03T07:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/212843\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:03:07","slug":"jd-vances-mother-says-shed-probably-punch-el-sayed-over-family-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/212843\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance&#8217;s mother says she&#8217;d &#8216;probably punch&#8217; El-Sayed over family remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El-Sayed has previously made remarks about Second Lady Usha Vance and the couple&#8217;s children, including during an April appearance on &#8220;The Allen Analysis Show,&#8221; according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s mother, Beverly Vance Aikins, said she would &#8220;probably punch&#8221; Michigan Democratic Senate candidate <a data-ylk=\"slk:Abdul El-Sayed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-907367\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Abdul El-Sayed<\/a> over remarks he has made about Vance&#8217;s family, Fox News reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;d probably punch the guy if I ever seen him, and then that would get me in trouble,&#8221; Aikins told OutKick and Fox News host Tomi Lahren. &#8220;So, I&#8217;ll just go with the flow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aikins said El-Sayed&#8217;s remarks angered her because &#8220;he doesn&#8217;t know JD&#8221; or &#8220;what type of person he is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I think they&#8217;re jealous, honestly,&#8221; she said, pointing to her son&#8217;s position as vice president and his family. &#8220;He&#8217;s got a beautiful wife, four beautiful children, and jealousy is the only thing I can think of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed&#8217;s remarks about Vance family<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El-Sayed has previously made remarks about Second <a data-ylk=\"slk:Lady Usha Vance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/american-politics\/article-884008\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Usha Vance<\/a> and the couple&#8217;s children, including during an April appearance on &#8220;The Allen Analysis Show,&#8221; according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El-Sayed said Vance had &#8220;brown kids&#8221; and suggested that they would one day question their father&#8217;s political views. He also appeared to encourage Usha Vance to leave her husband, saying, &#8220;Usha get out &#8230; you&#8217;ve still got time,&#8221; Fox News reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More recently, El-Sayed invoked Usha Vance after the vice president criticized his previous comments that efforts to ban Sharia law stemmed from white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no&#8230;&#8221; El-Sayed wrote on X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Vance tells El-Sayed to keep wife&#8217;s name &#8216;out of your mouth&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Vance;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-907291\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vance<\/a> responded during a political rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Monday, where he was campaigning for El-Sayed&#8217;s Republican Senate opponent, Mike Rogers, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife&#8217;s name the hell out of your mouth because she&#8217;s way out of your league,&#8221; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vice president said he was particularly sensitive to the remarks because Usha Vance had given birth to the couple&#8217;s fourth child five weeks earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Usha Vance had addressed El-Sayed&#8217;s remarks in an interview with Fox News the previous weekend, saying his comment about whether she would accompany her husband back in time to meet his grandparents made her laugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vance also accused El-Sayed of being divisive and said his views represented a &#8220;terrible evil&#8221; that was on the rise in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El-Sayed responded by accusing Vance of dividing <a data-ylk=\"slk:Americans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/travel\/article-905765\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Americans<\/a> for political gain and criticized the Trump administration&#8217;s policies on healthcare, the economy, and foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">El-Sayed is running against Rogers in Michigan&#8217;s closely watched Senate race to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El-Sayed has previously made remarks about Second Lady Usha Vance and the couple&#8217;s children, including during an April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[119],"tags":[53469,95201,169,168,34020,170,4678],"class_list":["post-212843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jd-vance","tag-el-sayed","tag-el-sayeds","tag-james-david-vance","tag-jd-vance","tag-usha","tag-usha-vance","tag-vance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117205834329062638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}