El-Sayeds racist swipe at Usha Vance is badly backfiring with Indian-Americans and women
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-char 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.).
El-Sayed leads Rogers by less than a percentage point in the RealClearPolitics average.Michigan state GOP chair Reddy said family members should be off limits.“We may have differences.We attack each other.
But going to the family and the kids is a disaster,” he fumed.“They are not the one running.”Reddy predicted it would hurt El-Sayed with middle-aged women, Indian-Americans, and other ethnic groups, and slammed him for dragging Usha’s recent pregnancy into his attacks.
“Enough is enough,” he said, adding that the party is already work...