JD Vance referred to Abdul El-Sayed as 'evil' and told him to keep his wife's name out of his mouth while campaigning for Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers in Michigan. El-Sayed leads Rogers by a few points in one recent EPIC-MRA poll, where Rogers receives 43 percent support. El-Sayed has apologized for prior comments on a Temple Israel attack.
Vance's labeling of El-Sayed as 'evil' escalates rhetoric against a leading progressive candidate of color and shifts focus from policy to moral condemnation.