Vice President JD Vance branded Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a "limousine socialist," on Wednesday, warning that the far-left is using wealth redistribution and open-border immigration to undermine Michigan's working-class autoworkers.Speaking on "The Ingraham Angle," Vance argued that the victory of Democratic candidates backed by the far-left exposes a party pushing wealth redistribution rather than domestic industrial growth."They're not promising you industry.They're not promising you good jobs.
They're not promising self-sufficiency in a good industrial economy.What they're promising is redistribution," Vance told host Laura Ingraham.2026 MIDTERMS STATE OF PLAY: KEY RACES UNFOLD AS STEVENS, EL-SAYED BATTLE IN MICHIGANA split image shows Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, left, and Vice President JD Vance, right.
El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for Michigan's open U.S.Senate seat and will face Republican Mike Rogers in the general election.
(Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images; Finn Gomez/Getty Images)The vice president addressed the primary victory of El-Sayed in Michigan’s Democratic U.S.Senate race.
El-Sayed, a progressive backed by figures like Sen.Bernie Sanders and Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, narrowly defeated Rep.Haley Stevens and is now set to face Republican candidate Mike Rogers in November.Vance said that primary victories for candidates further left of center reflect a broader shift in the party, arguing that the "base of the Democratic Party just wants radicals.""It wants people who hate even the idea of private property ownership.
But it also, I think, tells us that, that particular set of ideas is very popular in places you wouldn't expect because El-Sayed, he's this guy who holds himself out as a working-class hero, as a guy who's going to fight for the working class," Vance said."How does he fight for the working class? By flooding his state and his country with low-wage immigrants.Of course, those peopl...