Senate Hopeful Faces Backlash Over Remarks About Vance Family

1 sourceUpdated Apr 20, 2026

A Michigan Senate candidate has drawn criticism for comments he made on a podcast about Vice President JD Vance and his family after they quickly spread online. According to Fox News , Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat running…

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