Vance Targets Michigan Senate Nominee El-Sayed Over 2022 Sharia Remarks

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 21

JD Vance used a Friday speech at the Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, to cast Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed as proof the party has drifted from working-class voters.
Vance pointed to El-Sayed’s 2022 CAIR banquet speech, where the Senate nominee said efforts to ban Sharia law could not be understood apart from white supremacy, the Trail of Tears and the Tulsa massacre.
The vice president told workers his late grandfather backed Democrats as “the party of union men,” then argued today’s party belongs to “graduate students” rather than union and nonunion labor.
El-Sayed, the son of Muslim Egyptian immigrants, is running against Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s open Senate race, one of the midterms’ most competitive contests and a potential factor in Senate control.
The attack adds to Republican criticism of El-Sayed over past comments on race, religion and Israel; his campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.