Abdul El-Sayed — a Michigan Democrat running for U.S. Senate — decided the best way to launch his campaign was to go after Vice President JD Vance’s kids. Not Vance’s policies. Not his voting record. His children. Specifically, the color of their skin.
Because nothing says “party of tolerance” like a grown man dragging little kids into a political attack based on their race. What a guy.
El-Sayed’s big contribution to American political discourse was this gem: “JD Vance has Brown kids who he thinks are less American than everyone else.” He went after Second Lady Usha Vance too, making crude comments and telling her to “get out” of her marriage. Real classy stuff from a man who wants to represent the great state of Michigan in the United States Senate.
Let’s run the hypothetical that we all know the answer to. If a Republican Senate candidate said that a Democratic vice president’s children were less American because of their skin color — what would happen? We’d have wall-to-wall CNN coverage for six weeks. MSNBC would interrupt regular programming. The New York Times editorial board would publish seventeen op-eds about the “rising tide of white nationalism.” There’d be calls for criminal investigations, boycotts, and probably a congressional resolution.
But a Democrat does it? Crickets. Maybe a few people on social media notice. That’s about it.
(Rules for thee but not for me — the unofficial motto of the Democratic Party since approximately forever.)
Think about what El-Sayed actually did here. He looked at the Vice President of the United States — a man with young children — and decided the most effective political attack was to weaponize those children’s race. He didn’t say Vance has bad immigration policy. He didn’t say Vance’s economic agenda is wrong. He said Vance’s “Brown kids” are being betrayed by their own father.
He used children as political props. By their skin color. On the record.
And this is the party that spent the last decade telling us they’re the guardians of racial justice? The party that loses its collective mind if you mispronounce someone’s name? The party that invented entire academic departments dedicated to making sure nobody ever feels “othered”?
That party just produced a Senate candidate who thought attacking a biracial family’s children was a winning political strategy.
Welcome to clown world.
El-Sayed made his grand entrance at the Michigan Democratic state convention with a drumline and a giant head prop, apparently thinking he was at a pep rally instead of a political event. Which, honestly, tracks. This is a guy who clearly confuses spectacle with substance and cruelty with courage.
Usha Vance, for those who don’t follow every detail, is the daughter of Indian immigrants. She went to Yale Law School. She clerked for the Chief Justice of the United States. She’s accomplished more before breakfast than most politicians accomplish in a career. And El-Sayed’s best attack was to reduce her entire family to their skin tone.
That’s not politics. That’s racism. Straight up.
Now here’s the thing Democrats will never answer honestly: Why is it acceptable for their candidates to make racial attacks on Republican families? We all know why. Because the left doesn’t actually believe in racial equality as a principle. They believe in racial politics as a weapon. When it helps them, skin color matters enormously. When it hurts them — like when one of their own gets caught making racist comments about a VP’s kids — suddenly it’s “taken out of context” or “not what he meant.”
We’ve seen this playbook before. Joe Biden told Black voters “you ain’t Black” if they didn’t vote for him and the media shrugged it off by Tuesday. Democrats have always believed they own the racial conversation in this country, which means they think they can say whatever they want without consequences.
El-Sayed just proved them wrong. This story is blowing up across conservative media, and Michigan voters — including the ones El-Sayed needs to win — are watching a man who wants their Senate vote use little kids as racial punching bags.
Good luck with that campaign strategy, Abdul. Going after children by the color of their skin is a bold move. Disgusting, but bold.
The Vance kids didn’t ask to be in politics. They didn’t ask for any of this. They’re children. And a Democrat Senate candidate just dragged them into a racial attack because he thought it would play well with the activist wing of his party. That tells you everything you need to know about where the modern Democratic Party’s head is at — and it’s nowhere good.
