Usha Vance Responds to Dig by Senate Candidate Questioning If JD Would Introduce Her to His Late Grandpa

Usha Vance is responding to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed‘s recent comment about her and her husband, Vice President JD Vance.

During a recent event, JD, 42, criticized El-Sayed, 41, and questioned what his grandfather — whom the vice president refers to as “Papaw” — would have thought of the Democratic politician.

“El-Sayed — this guy running for Senate in Michigan — he once argued, not too long ago, that criticisms of Sharia law were rooted in white supremacy,” JD claimed, per a clip posted on X.

“I’d love to go back in time and tell my Papaw that there’s a man who claims to stand for working people who says not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you’re a white supremacist,” JD continued. “That’s not my Papaw’s Democrat party.”

On Saturday, August 22, El-Sayed responded to the clip on X, appearing to take a dig at the vice president and his wife.

“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no…” El-Sayed wrote.

While speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, August 25, the second lady, 40, shared her reaction to El-Sayed.

“I have to admit, I kind of laughed. Because yes, I never met JD’s Mamaw and Papaw. But I do know and love the children that they raised: his mom, his aunt and uncle,” Usha said. “And they have never been anything but incredibly loving.”

“His aunt is like a second mother to me, and so I have to think that if they raised children like that, they would have been loving as well,” she continued. “And I would have really, really, really loved to have met them.”

JD, who hails from Ohio, and Usha — who was born and raised in California — met at Yale Law School and tied the knot after graduation. The couple share sons Ewan, 9, Vivek, 6, and 1-month-old Alec, as well as daughter Mirabel, 4.