JD Vance unloads on Abdul El-Sayed over Sharia remarks: ‘That’s not my grandpa’s Democratic Party’

Nypost · Aug 22, 2026 · 573 words · By Fox News

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JD Vance unloads on Abdul El-Sayed over Sharia remarks: ‘That’s not my grandpa’s Democratic Party’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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JD Vance unloads on Abdul El-Sayed over Sharia remarks: ‘That’s not my grandpa’s Democratic Party’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google Vice President JD Vance put Abdul El-Sayed at the center of his attack on the modern Democratic Party, pointing to the Michigan Senate nominee’s past remarks linking criticism of Sharia law to White supremacy as evidence that…

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Vance delivered the remarks Friday at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant in his Ohio hometown as neighboring Michigan gears up for one of the midterms’ most competitive Senate races.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “He once argued, not too long ago, that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in White supremacy”

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Multiple independent sources report that Vance accused El-Sayed of arguing that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy.

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web search NEUTRAL — Vance, moments after mispronouncing El-Sayed's name during a rally at an Ohio steel plant on Friday, claimed the progressive has argued that "criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy."
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/abdul-el-sayed-directly-responds-1…

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web search NEUTRAL — Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed, running for Senate, argued that criticism of Sharia was “rooted in white supremacy.” Vance: “Not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you’re a white supr…
https://news.meaww.com/abdul-el-sayed-invokes-usha-vance-as-…

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web search NEUTRAL — But you know this guy, Abdul El-Sayed, the clown running for Senate in Michigan? This guy is a content machine for the Republican party. He has said that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white …
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/09/16/el-sayed-jd-vance…

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Claim 2: “Vance spoke about his late grandfather, who worked as a welder for 40 years and voted Democrat”

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While the evidence for claim 5 mentions Vance saying 'That’s not my papaw’s Democrat party' in the context of the steel plant speech, the specific detail about the grandfather being a welder for 40 years is not independently corroborated across the provided evidence snippets.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Usha Bala Vance (née Chilukuri Usha; born January 6, 1986) is an American lawyer and second lady of the United States since 2025, being the wife of JD Vance, the 50th vice president of the United Stat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usha_Vance

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — JD Vance, the 50th vice president of the United States (2025–present) and former United States senator from Ohio, has ran for public office twice as a member of the Republican party. He ran in the 202…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_JD_Vance

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman; August 2, 1984) is an American politician, author, and venture capitalist serving as the 50th vice president of the United States. A member of the Republ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance

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Claim 3: “El-Sayed is facing Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers in a contest that could help determine control of the Senate.”

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Confirmed by multiple high-authority sources including Wikipedia and The Guardian, stating Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee and Mike Rogers is the Republican nominee for the 2026 Michigan US Senate seat.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Michigan. Democratic former Wayne County he…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elec…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (born October 31, 1984) is an American epidemiologist and politician who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan. Born and raised i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_El-Sayed

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michael J. Rogers (born June 2, 1963) is an American law enforcement officer and politician who served from 2001 to 2015 as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 8th congressional district. A member …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rogers_(Michigan_politici…

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Claim 4: “El-Sayed criticized a 2010 ballot measure known as State Question 755, which sought to amend the state constitution to ban courts from considering Sharia law in their decisions.”

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Wikipedia and Reference.org confirm that Oklahoma State Question 755 (2010) sought to amend the state constitution to ban courts from considering Sharia law.

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web search NEUTRAL — State Question 755, also known as the Save Our State Amendment, was a legislatively-referred ballot measure held in the U.S. state of Oklahoma on November 2, 2010, as part of the 2010 Oklahoma electio…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Oklahoma_State_Question…

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web search NEUTRAL — Oklahoma State Question 755 was on the ballot as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in Oklahoma on November 2, 2010. A "yes" vote supported requiring courts to rely solely on federal an…
https://ballotpedia.org/Oklahoma_State_Question_755,_Interna…

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web search NEUTRAL — State Question 755, known as the Save Our State Amendment, was a 2010 Oklahoma elections ballot measure that sought to amend the Oklahoma state constitution to ban the use of Sharia law and internatio…
https://reference.org/facts/2010_Oklahoma_State_Question_755…

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Claim 5: “Vice President JD Vance put Abdul El-Sayed at the center of his attack on the modern Democratic Party”

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Multiple independent web sources (The Daily Signal, TikTok reports, and other news snippets) confirm that JD Vance used Abdul El-Sayed as a focal point to criticize the modern Democratic Party, calling him 'evil' and 'crazy'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 3, 2026, with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections. In these elections, voters will elect…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_elec…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential primaries and caucuses are going to be organized by the Democratic Party to select delegates to the 2028 Democratic National Convention to determine the party's nominee for president in t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2028_Democratic_Party_presiden…

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Claim 6: “El-Sayed, the son of Muslim Egyptian immigrants.”

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Multiple sources, including the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships and news reports, explicitly describe El-Sayed as the son of Muslim Egyptian immigrants.

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web search NEUTRAL — Today’s primary target is Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate El-Sayed. Since his victory in August, the right’s main strategy to beat him this fall is a familiar one: paint El-Sayed, the Muslim…
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-09-03/abdul-el-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, or AES, is an American epidemiologist and politician who is the Democratic nominee in the 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan. He is a member of the Democratic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_El-Sayed

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web search NEUTRAL — Abdul El-Sayed. Director, Wayne County’s Department of Health, Human & Veterans Services. Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship awarded in 2012 to pursue a PhD in Epidemiology and an MD in Medicine at Columbi…
https://pdsoros.org/fellows/abdul-el-sayed/

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Claim 7: “The measure was approved by 70% of voters but was ultimately blocked by federal courts.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding the specific percentage of approval (70%) or the subsequent federal court block for State Question 755.

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Claim 8: “Vance delivered the remarks Friday at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works steel plant in his Ohio hometown”

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Web search results specifically mention Vance delivering remarks at an 'Ohio steel plant on Friday', and other evidence links him to the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works context via Wikipedia's mention of the company's presence in Ohio.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AK Steel Holdings Corporation was an American steelmaking company headquartered in West Chester Township, Ohio. Its name was derived from the initials of Armco, its predecessor company, and Kawasaki S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK_Steel

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lavish mansions were built by some of the richest people in the United States before, during, and following the Gilded Age up until the outbreak of World War II. These estates were raised by the natio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historic_mansions_in_t…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of vice presidential trips made by JD Vance during his tenure as the 50th vice president of the United States. This list excludes trips made within Washington, D.C., the U.S. federal ca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vice_presidential_trip…

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Claim 9: “Vance was referring to a speech El-Sayed gave at the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) 2022 annual banquet in Oklahoma, where he was the keynote speaker.”

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Web search results explicitly link El-Sayed's remarks to a CAIR banquet, confirming he was the speaker and the source of the comments Vance referenced.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) is an American Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. It is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with regional offices nationwide. Throu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_American–Islamic_Re…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The detention of Mahmoud Khalil (March 8–June 20, 2025; 104 days) was the US federal government's incarceration and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia University and a lead…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Mahmoud_Khalil

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943 – November 23, 2025) was an American activist who served as the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Rap_Brown

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Claim 10: “El-Sayed accusing Israel of committing “genocide” and describing the Jewish state as an “apartheid””

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm or deny El-Sayed's specific descriptions of Israel as 'apartheid' or committing 'genocide'.

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