The Abdul-El Sayed campaign on Thursday launched an attack aimed at White House aide Natalie Harp just a week after attacking second lady Usha Vance in a similarly vicious manner.<\/p>\n
After President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> edict renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America during a heated trade battle with Canada the El-Sayed campaign waded into the fray on X.<\/p>\n “If we\u2019re just renaming everything now\u2026 When are we making this official?” the campaign said in its post, adding a doctored image of the official White House webpage for first lady Melania Trump<\/a>, crossing out her name and replacing it with Harp\u2019s.<\/p>\n The post was quickly criticized by conservatives on social media.<\/p>\n HOUSE DEM’S ‘LAKE NATALIE’ JAB AT TRUMP AIDE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ABLAZE: ‘STAY CLASSY’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “This is just such a weak, phoned-in effort,” GOP communicator Matt Whitlock posted on X<\/a>. “My four year-old could come up with better burns than this.<\/p>\n “Weird how much time this campaign spends talking about other people\u2018s wives. When Abdul\u2019s not talking about (and clearly thinking a lot about) the vice president and his wife, apparently he\u2019s thinking about President Trump and his wife?”<\/p>\n “That boy Abdul is drowning, and his team keeps throwing him bricks,” journalist James David Dickson posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n “So this is just gross, right?” Conservative advocacy group Michigan Forward posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n SECOND LADY USHA VANCE FIRES BACK AT POINTED JAB FROM DEMOCRATIC SENATE NOMINEE ABDUL EL-SAYED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “A lil more sexism and misogyny from the Left,” political commentator Melik Abdul posted on X<\/a>. “This time, it’s from the Guy who plays foootsie with Hasan Piker.”<\/p>\n Harp is a longtime Trump supporter who credited his first-term “right to try” order for saving her life after a serious battle with bone cancer. She then joined the second Trump administration as an aide to the president.<\/p>\n In recent weeks, Harp has become the subject of intense media scrutiny and online speculation about the nature of her relationship with Trump.<\/p>\n SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In a post over the weekend responding to Vice President JD Vance\u2019s comments that his grandfather, whom he called Pawpaw, would be shocked to know that El-Sayed is a serious U.S. Senate contender, the socialist-aligned candidate from Michigan responded by invoking second lady Usha Vance, who is of Indian descent.<\/p>\n “So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no\u2026,” El-Sayed wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n Fox News Digital reached out to El-Sayed\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Abdul-El Sayed campaign on Thursday launched an attack aimed at White House aide Natalie Harp just a week after attacking second lady Usha Vance in a similarly vicious manner. After President Donald Trump\u2019s edict renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America during a heated trade battle with Canada the El-Sayed campaign waded into the fray … 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-78011","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\/78011","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=78011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}