JD Vance blasts El-Sayed after he goes after Usha Vance: "Way out of your league"

Vice President JD Vance did not come to metro Detroit to play nice. After Michigan Democratic Anti-Semitic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed decided to take a swipe at the second lady, Vance told him to knock it off and talk about something that actually matters to voters.

Vance implored El-Sayed to focus on policy instead of attacking his wife. 

At a MAGA Inc. rally Monday, JD made it clear he thinks the Democrat’s personal shot is not just cheap. It is strange."I actually think that the people of Michigan think it's kind of weird when you talk about another guy's wife," Vance said. "I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about the public policy ideas …I think the people of Michigan would like you to talk about how you're going to protect auto workers when you're supporting every single policy that has undercut the wages and jobs of Michigan auto workers your entire life in public service."

Then came the closer. "But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth because she's way out of your league," the vice president added.

That was not some random zinger. It was a response to El-Sayed saying "do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no" after Vance suggested that Sharia law would have been an alien concept to his grandfather. 

Critics said the post appeared to take aim at Usha Vance’s Indian heritage. El-Sayed later claimed his point was that Vance seemed to be suggesting some people are "more American" than others because their families have been in the country longer, noting that Vance’s own in-laws are immigrants. Sure. That is the cleanup. 

The original post still read like a cheap ethnic jab at the vice president’s wife. Conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky cut through the spin. "If you’re a rural White American living in Michigan, just remember El-Sayed believes you’re a racist." 

That is the problem with this guy. Instead of explaining why Michigan auto workers should trust a candidate who has spent his public life backing the policies that undercut their jobs, he went after another man’s wife. Vance was happy to bring it back to substance. 

Earlier in his speech, Vance accused El-Sayed of undercutting his support for working people by taking liberal positions on immigration.

"We're here to talk about protecting Michigan truck drivers, but also protecting the safety of every single person who drives on the road with a semi truck, which is all of us," Vance said. "Here's the crazy thing. Just a few years ago, Abdul El-Sayed said that we need to make sure that illegal aliens have driver's licenses in this country. He would love to undercut the wages of American truckers."

In 2018, El-Sayed expressed support for allowing illegal immigrants to obtain standard driver's licenses, though he did not specifically push for those in the country illegally to receive the commercial driver's licenses necessary to operate long-haul trucks. 

Vance still landed the broader point. You do not get to pose as the champion of Michigan truckers while floating licenses for people who should not be here. The two men do overlap on one thing. While Vance and El-Sayed differ in their approaches to immigration, both agree, in principle, that tariffs should be used to benefit American industry. That is about where the common ground ends. 

El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat and will face Republican Mike Rogers in the general election. If Monday was any indication, he would rather talk about Usha Vance than explain how his record helps auto workers. Vance was not having it.The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.

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Erika Kirk had to cancels last minute TPUSA appearance at U of Georgia over "serious threats"

Erika Kirk just had to cancel her appearance at the Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia tonight over "very serious threats."

Vice President JD Vance still showed up and delivered his planned speech like a champ. Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet confirmed it straight up: Erika Kirk, widow of our late conservative warrior Charlie Kirk, received "some very serious threats in her direction."

That's why she wasn't there in Athens, Georgia.

JD Vance admitted he was concerned the whole thing might get scrubbed. He talked to the Secret Service and told Erika to "do what she needs to do for her and her family."

No further details on the threats have been released. 

This comes after the Trump administration has stood strong with Erika following the brutal assassination of her husband Charlie Kirk during that debate event at Utah Valley University back in September.

They flew Charlie's casket home to Arizona on Air Force Two, with Vice President JD Vance right there accompanying it.

Second lady Usha Vance was seen holding Erika's hand as they stepped off the plane.President Donald Trump, Vance, and several other administration officials showed up for Charlie Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona on Sept. 21, 2025, just weeks after he was taken from us.Trump called him a "martyr for American freedom" in his remarks and later posthumously awarded Charlie the Medal of Freedom on what would have been his 32nd birthday. Erika accepted it on behalf of her husband with incredible strength.

And on September 18, TPUSA unanimously elected Erika Kirk as the new CEO and chair of the board. She's stepping up and carrying the torch.

The left's hate and threats aren't stopping us—they're only making the fight clearer. America First keeps moving forward.

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Kamala Hahaharris refused to allow JD Vance's kids tour the VP house before inauguration

Hey hey, ho ho, 

Kamala Harris, the self-anointed "Momala" of the political universe, has decided that basic courtesy is just too much work for her lofty station. According to Vice President JD Vance, Harris gave a big ol' middle finger to a simple request from the Vance family to let their young kids, ages 7, 5, and a freshly minted 3-year-old Mirabel, take a peek at the vice president's residence before the inauguration. You know, the place they'd be calling home for the next four years. Classy move, Kamala.

Vance spilled the tea on the inaugural episode of the Katie Miller Podcast, aired Monday, and it's a doozy. Apparently, it’s customary, call it tradition, something Harris clearly holds in low regard, for the outgoing veep to give the incoming family a tour of the digs. But Harris, during her passage of time, wasn't feeling the hospitality vibes. "I think that, normally, it's customary for the outgoing vice president to show the incoming vice president’s family the house," Vance said, probably while shaking his head at the sheer pettiness. "We have three little kids, so I guess at the time our kids were, like, 7, 5, and, you know, 2 – I guess Mirabel turned 3 right before the inauguration."

Vance's wife, Usha, just wanted to give their kids a heads-up about their new home; nothing crazy, just a quick walkthrough to ease the transition for the little ones. But Harris wasn't having it. "Usha really wanted to show [the children where they would be living], so what we actually proposed is, recognizing the weirdness of the politics, can Usha take the kids over and just show them where they’re going to be living for the next 4 years, and they were rebuffed," Vance said. Rebuffed. That's political-speak for "go pound sand."

So, instead of a tour, the Vance kids got a picture book about the vice president's residence, courtesy of a friend in Cincinnati. "A friend of ours in Cincinnati had a book about the vice president’s residence, and so we would show the kids what it would look like, but that’s as close as they ever got to it" before the inauguration, Vance noted. 

And it wasn't just the kids who got the cold shoulder. Harris also snubbed Vance himself, skipping the traditional invite for the incoming VP to check out the residence. Apparently, Harris was too busy polishing her "Momala" halo to bother with basic decency. This is the same woman who's been milking the "Momala" sobriquet for all it's worth, ever since she and her hairy armpit stepdaughter, Ella, cooked it up one night, as Harris gushed in a 2019 Mother's Day piece for Elle. She's leaned hard into the warm-and-fuzzy stepmom narrative to prop up her political image, but when it comes to actual kindness? Eh, not so much.

So, there you have it: Kamala Harris, champion of family values, couldn't be bothered to let a few kids see their future home or extend a hand to her successor. But don’t worry, she’s still got her "Momala" branding to fall back on when the cameras are rolling. 

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