JD Vance Blames El-Sayed’s Win on ‘Self-Hating White Liberals’

Vice President JD Vance claimed Wednesday on Fox News that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed’s primary victory was simply a result of “self-hating white liberals.”

El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) in the state’s Tuesday Senate primary election, despite Stevens’ nine-to-one spending advantage, with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee alone spending more than $30 million against him.

Claiming that El-Sayed is one of “these DSA types” — even though the Democratic Socialists of America notably has not endorsed him — Vance told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, “He basically represents the modern Democratic coalition, which is self-hating white liberals united to people who just came to the country for the first time and don’t actually have the sense of appreciation for it that they should. Those are the people who are voting for El-Sayed.”

When asked what that phenomenon signals about higher education, Vance responded, “I think what that tells us is that a lot of young Americans were sold a whole promise at the elite universities in our country, and that promise is that they were going to be able to go to college, get a degree, and everything was gonna work out fine for them.”

He added:

In reality, actually, a lot of universities sold these kids a bill of goods. They gave them a lot of debt. They did not give them useful skills or useful credentials, and a lot of these kids are very angry. But that really is — if you look at the data, Laura — the base of the Democratic Party today is downwardly mobile, hyper-progressive, well-educated people. People, I think, who were sold a bill of goods by universities have a lot of debt, but not a good job to show for it.

Interestingly enough, Vance’s 2016 book Hillbilly Elegy lends a great deal of focus to his time at Yale Law School, often discussing the “upward mobility” his education provided him with.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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