Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha, responded with an eight-word reaction to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed seemingly remarked on her ethnicity and her husband’s late grandfather. This comes amid an ongoing feud between Donald Trump, his administration, and the Democratic leader.
Usha Vance fires back at Abdul El-Sayed after his comments
“I have to admit I kind of laughed,” Usha Vance said on a Fox & Friends interview. This response came after Vice President JD Vance criticized Abdul El-Sayed’s views on Sharia law during an Ohio campaign stop. El-Sayed fired back on Saturday with a comment that appeared to mock Usha’s Indian heritage. He wrote, “So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…” The remark referenced the vice president’s grandfather, James Vance, whom the Vice President calls “Papaw.”
JD Vance’s wife, Usha, acknowledged she never met her husband’s grandparents but pointed to the family they raised. “I do know and love the children that they raised: his mom, his aunt and uncle. And they have never been anything but incredibly loving. His aunt is like a second mother to me,” she said in the interview.
The second lady also reflected on what meeting the Vance grandparents might have been like. “I have to think that, if they raised children like that, they would’ve been loving as well and I would have really, really, really loved to have met them,” she added.
The couple met at Yale Law School in 2010, years after JD Vance’s grandparents passed away. Despite never meeting them, Usha connected with the family through his mother, aunt, and uncle. The vice president brought up his grandfather during a recent campaign event in Ohio. He described James as a welder who worked for 40 years and voted Democrat because he viewed the party as a defender of union workers. JD Vance contrasted that legacy with El-Sayed’s positions on Sharia law.
Originally reported by Devanshi Basu on Mandatory.
