Thursday night at the GOP Midterm Convention, JD Vance told the story of how Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed criticized his deceased grandfather, suggesting that the man could not have loved Vance’s wife because of who she is.
Vance refuted El-Sayed’s words and defended his grandfather, using El-Sayed’s own life story.
He then told some hard truths about what the Democrat Party has become over the last several years, calling it the ‘party of hatred.’
Transcript by Curtis Houck:
“Americans. But right after that visit, something interesting happened. The man the Democrats are running for Senate in the great state of Michigan. His name is Abdul el-Sayed. He saw me describing what a decent man, and my papaw was genuinely a decent and good man. He saw me talking about my papaw, and his work, and his history, and what he loved and what he cared about. And you know what old Abdul did? He asked mockingly, whether I’d be willing to bring Usha back in time to meet papaw. This is what he thinks of my grandfather, a man I loved and who loved his family unconditionally. Abdul looks at him, sees the color of his skin, sees his background, and decides that he could never have loved my wife.
Now, the shocking thing — the shocking thing is that Abdul himself was raised by his own white, step-grandparents. He knows exactly that kind of bond and what it looks like in a family. And he chose anyway to say that a man like my grandfather couldn’t have loved from the bottom of his heart someone who looks like Usha. Well, thanks be to God that my Papaw was a better man than Abdul el-sayed, because I guarantee you he’d love my family every bit as much.”
“But, look, I — I — I’m not just here to defend the honor of my papaw. I’m here to tell you this is who the Democrats are now, my friends. They’re not just the party of little higher taxes, maybe some dumb regulations. They’re not the party of FDR or JFK. Hell, they’re not even the party of Bill Clinton anymore.”
“The Democrats are the party of hatred. They’re the party that despises America and the people who built it. They’re the party that can find sympathy for the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11. But they say that people with names like James Vance are incapable of loving people with names like Usha, and they couldn’t be more wrong. Ladies and gentlemen, because the Democrats have become such a nightmare, we can never — we will never let them win. We’re going to beat him back in November.”
Watch the whole thing below:
Vice President @JDVance, again hammering Michigan socialist Abdul el-Sayed’s vile smear against Usha Vance and his late grandfather…
“Americans. But right after that visit, something interesting happened. The man the Democrats are running for Senate in the great state of… pic.twitter.com/nmHNq4JCc9
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2026
For a party that claims to be against hate, Democrats sure have a funny way of showing it.
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