Vance's mother says she'd 'punch' El-Sayed over attacks on VP's family

In the charged atmosphere of an approaching election, the family of a sitting vice president has found itself drawn into a deeply personal political conflict. Beverly Vance Aikins, mother of Vice President JD Vance, spoke publicly about her anger toward Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, whose repeated attacks on her son's wife and biracial children have crossed from policy disagreement into questions of identity and belonging. The episode illuminates a broader and troubling drift in democratic discourse — one in which the families of public figures become instruments of poli