Abdul El-Sayed’s racist swipe at Usha Vance badly backfiring with Indian-Americans, women

NY Post ^ | 8/29/26 | Geoff Earle

[Libloather]

Radical Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s racially charged swipe at Second Lady Usha Vance is badly backfiring, threatening to alienate Michigan’s 130,000 Indian-Americans and crucial female voters, insiders told The Post.

The unprovoked jab at the second lady exposed El-Sayed’s own insecurities said one GOP insider, who accused the anti-Israel Democrat of victimizing women to look tough when he snidely posted to X: “So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no …”

“I think Abdul has a Napoleon complex and he victimizes women to look tough instead of the actual men he claims to have a problem with,” the insider told The Post.

Vance himself has yet to address the swipe at his wife – but is expected to put El-Sayed on blast when he flies to Michigan Monday to campaign in the state’s 10th Congressional District near Detroit, insiders told The Post.

“For sure” he’s going to come out swinging, state GOP party co-chair Sunny Reddy told The Post. “He’s going to see more reaction from the community,” he said.

The swing state ranks third nationally in female voter participation, with 69% of women turning out, according to Census Bureau data, about 10 points above the national average.

Republicans see an opportunity to try to peel away South Asian voters from El-Sayed, whose parents are Egyptian immigrants, in a race that pits him against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).

[SoCal Pubbie]

Let’s look at this again

“Republicans see an opportunity to try to peel away South Asian voters from El-Sayed, whose parents are Egyptian immigrants, in a race that pits him against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).”

I see that as saying that the same as “The GOP sees an opportunity to peel away South Asian voters from El-Sayed, who is Egyptian and cannot claim ethnic solidarity with these voters voters.”

Can you not see this possibility? Keep in mind that today’s reporters are pretty bad writers.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I would like to add that your understanding of the article is not unreasonable. I did not wish to be argumentative. As I wrote l, perhaps the fault is in the someone ambiguous writing of the reporter who allowed things open for interpretation. And the other hand, perhaps I am wrong and you are right.