The Radical Reading Room

Vice President JD Vance accused Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, of anti-white racial hatred before a rally in Howell on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Newsweek reported that Vance made the charge shortly before taking the stage; Mother Jones described it as a pre-rally press-gaggle remark. Both accounts place the accusation in the final week before Election Day.

At the Howell rally, Vance continued the attack, arguing that El-Sayed’s views reflected hostility toward the United States. He compared the alleged outlook to hatred and destructive unrest in France and warned that similar scenes could occur in American cities. These were Vance’s characterizations and predictions, not independently established events.

Vance described France as a warning, invoking what he called hatred, ingratitude and a desire to destroy rather than build. Mother Jones reported that he raised the possibility of riots in New York or Detroit; Newsweek likewise reported that he suggested El-Sayed would bring France-like unrest to the United States.

Both accounts identify El-Sayed as a Michigan Senate candidate and place Vance’s remarks amid the final week before the election. They report the accusation and Vance’s warning, but do not describe unrest in U.S. cities occurring as a result of El-Sayed. The reporting establishes that Vance made the allegation, not that the allegation is true.