{"id":77786,"date":"2026-08-23T11:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/el-sayed-under-fire-online-after-taking-aim-at-usha-vance-female-trump-aide-in-weekend-social-media-posts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:55:59","slug":"el-sayed-under-fire-online-after-taking-aim-at-usha-vance-female-trump-aide-in-weekend-social-media-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/el-sayed-under-fire-online-after-taking-aim-at-usha-vance-female-trump-aide-in-weekend-social-media-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Sayed under fire online after taking aim at Usha Vance, female Trump aide in weekend social media posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internet is ablaze after controversial socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan invoked second lady Usha Vance<\/a> in taking a dig at Vice President JD Vance, leading some top voices to question how he would treat female staff should he win in November.<\/p>\n

“El Sayed is now attacking Wives [sic] of US leaders? What a guy,” said former Florida state Rep. Ben Graber on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed, running against Republican former Congressman Mike Rogers<\/a>, launched the attack on Saturday after Vance slammed him for his stated adherence to Sharia law<\/a> during a rally in Ohio, suggesting the practice would be completely alien to his grandfather, whom he calls his “Papaw.”<\/p>\n

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“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no\u2026” El-Sayed said, seemingly in reference to the second lady’s Indian ethnicity.<\/p>\n

El-Sayed’s campaign did not return a comment request from Fox News Digital asking him to explain exactly what he was implying.<\/p>\n

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“Why does Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed just assume that all White midwestern grandparents are racist?” asked<\/a> Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, in response to the post.<\/p>\n

“If you\u2019re a rural White American living in Michigan, just remember El-Sayed believes you\u2019re a racist,” said<\/a> commentator Ryan Girdusky.<\/p>\n

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“This is why there were ads in the primary correctly highlighting how sexist and misogynistic Abdul is,” said an X account run by Democrats supporting El-Sayed’s opponent Mike Rogers. “He has so much contempt for women. If you\u2019re over the politics of division. Reject Abdul El-Sayed.”<\/p>\n

Others accused El-Sayed of being racist himself.<\/p>\n

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“You are a racist creep,” said<\/a> journalist Emily Schrader in response to El-Sayed’s post.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, El-Sayed also made a post directed toward Natalie Harp<\/a>, an aide to President Donald Trump<\/a>. Far-left media and Democrats online have spent the past two weeks implying that Harp and Trump have an improper relationship.<\/p>\n

“Natalie, I think he\u2019s had a little too much iPad for the week. He needs his rest,” El-Sayed said in response to Trump blasting him at a rally for campaigning with far-left socialist Hasan Piker, who has said that “America deserved 9\/11.”<\/p>\n

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“This is what I\u2019m talking about,” said GOP strategist Matt Whitlock, posting screenshots of the posts directed at Harp and Usha Vance. “Just a bad campaign, bad candidate, bad instincts. Sitting at home on a Saturday morning tweeting bad takes that any normal campaign would shut down.”<\/p>\n

“He goes after Usha. He goes after Natalie [Harp]. This coward picks on women who are not in his fight. Imagine how he would treat female staffers in the halls of Congress,” said Tudor Dixon<\/a>, a Republican former gubernatorial candidate in Michigan.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to the vice president’s office and a representative for Usha Vance, but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The internet is ablaze after controversial socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan invoked second lady Usha Vance in taking a dig at Vice President JD Vance, leading some top voices to question how he would treat female staff should he win in November. “El Sayed is now attacking Wives [sic] of US leaders? What … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}