BS BULLETIN:
- Vice President JD Vance’s mother, Beverly Vance Aikins, says she would “probably punch” Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed if she encountered him after his repeated comments about Vance’s wife and children.
- Aikins called El-Sayed an “idiot” and fiercely defended Second Lady Usha Vance and her grandchildren, saying, “Those are my babies.”
- The family feud escalated after El-Sayed repeatedly invoked Usha and the Vance children in attacks on the vice president, prompting Vance himself this week to tell the Democrat to keep his wife’s name “the hell outta your mouth.”
Vice President JD Vance already told Abdul El-Sayed to keep his wife’s name out of his mouth.
Now Mom has entered the chat.
Beverly Vance Aikins unloaded on the Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Wednesday during an appearance with OutKick and Fox News host Tomi Lahren, after being asked about El-Sayed’s repeated remarks involving Second Lady Usha Vance and the couple’s four children.
“I think that man’s an idiot,” Aikins said. Then she made clear why the comments hit a nerve. “Those are my babies,” she said, adding that she loves her grandchildren and considers Usha her own daughter.
Aikins said she believes jealousy may be behind El-Sayed’s fixation on the Vance family, pointing to her son’s position as vice president and his wife and children. But when Lahren asked whether she simply laughs off El-Sayed’s comments or whether they genuinely anger her, Mom Vance admitted they get under her skin.
“It makes me mad, honestly,” she said.
Aikins stressed that she wasn’t planning to do anything about it — before offering one rather colorful possibility if the two ever cross paths. “I’d probably punch the guy if I ever seen him,” she said, acknowledging that doing so would get her in trouble. “So, I’ll just go with the flow.”
The extraordinary family feud stems from comments El-Sayed made during an April podcast appearance that have resurfaced as he campaigns for Michigan’s open Senate seat.
El-Sayed referred to Vance’s children as “brown kids” while arguing that the vice president’s politics conflict with his own biracial family. He also directly addressed the second lady, telling her to “get out” and saying she still had time.
More recently, El-Sayed invoked Vance’s late grandfather — his “Papaw” — while making another crack involving Usha.
That prompted Vance to respond during a Michigan rally Monday. The vice president called El-Sayed’s habit of discussing his family “weird” and said voters would rather hear what the Senate candidate plans to do for Michigan. Then came the line that made headlines: “Keep my wife’s name the hell outta your mouth, because she’s way outta your league!”
El-Sayed has accused Vance of hypocrisy, arguing that President Donald Trump previously brought El-Sayed’s own wife into the political fight. During a CNN appearance Monday, El-Sayed said he would prefer that spouses be left out of politics altogether.
That apparently hasn’t satisfied Vance’s mother.
And if the two happen to meet somewhere along the Michigan campaign trail, El-Sayed might want to remember one thing: Grandma is watching.
MY QUICK TAKE
Politics has officially reached the “candidate versus vice president versus vice president’s mom” stage.
El-Sayed picked a fight with JD Vance over his family. Vance fired back. Now Mom has weighed in with a right hook.
Somewhere, a campaign consultant is desperately begging everyone to talk about tax policy.
mmm