# JD Vance escalates attacks on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

https://mins.news/en/item/118145

- The Guardian, 2026-10-27 21:30 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/27/jd-vance-el-sayed-attacks

> Vice-president JD Vance tried to link Abdul El-Sayed to protests in Paris and claimed he would lead rioters in “burning down” Detroit. El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, has faced a barrage of Islamophobic rhetoric, and Donald Trump has called him a “jihadist.”

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