Vice President JD Vance was accused of rank hypocrisy Monday over his attack on Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
Speaking at a midterm election rally in Michigan in support of GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, Vance claimed he had “realized that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today.”
According to Vance, “it’s people who see themselves not as citizens of a common nation, fighting for every single person, whether they’re Jewish or Christian, whether they’re white or black or brown, but see themselves as fighting for one group at the expense of others.”
That, he suggested, is how “you destroy the United States of America.”
Vance continued: “When you have people who start to say my ethnic group deserves something and yours doesn’t, or that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad, that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality and common citizenship that we need to continue to have the United States be the most powerful and prosperous nation anywhere in the world.”
Accusations of hypocrisy, along with blunt reminders of how Vance, Donald Trump and his administration have engaged in exactly the kind of rhetoric the vice president was condemning, quickly followed on X: