Vice President JD Vance was accused of rank hypocrisy Monday over his attack on Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.

Speaking at a midterm election rally in Michigan in support of GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, Vance claimed he had “realized that there’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today.”

According to Vance, “it’s people who see themselves not as citizens of a common nation, fighting for every single person, whether they’re Jewish or Christian, whether they’re white or black or brown, but see themselves as fighting for one group at the expense of others.”

That, he suggested, is how “you destroy the United States of America.”

JD Vance: "When you have people who say 'my ethnic group deserves something, and yours doesn't,' or 'that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad,' that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality." pic.twitter.com/fAgwbQuHSZ

Vance continued: “When you have people who start to say my ethnic group deserves something and yours doesn’t, or that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad, that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality and common citizenship that we need to continue to have the United States be the most powerful and prosperous nation anywhere in the world.”

Accusations of hypocrisy, along with blunt reminders of how Vance, Donald Trump and his administration have engaged in exactly the kind of rhetoric the vice president was condemning, quickly followed on X:

Remember when JD Vance spread the false rumor that Haitian migrants were eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio? https://t.co/VkOy8GWEUu pic.twitter.com/tlaLPzNsnM

They literally do that exact thing everyday!

You mean like: they’re eating the cats and dogs? Or Somalians are “garbage”?? Or.. “if I see a Black pilot I question his credentials” ???  Or Nigerians should go back to their huts”?? @JDVance https://t.co/1TiZRIUxRJ

He is so close to understanding the problem with MAGA politics.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” — Donald Trump https://t.co/O0MlGTieRJ

Someone forgets that (1) Trump falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs and (2) JD Vance laughed about  knowing it was a lie. Spare us, please. https://t.co/fKopzDoolO

Which is exactly what Trump is doing

The classic talking out of both sides of your mouth.

HEY @JDVance ...you're talking about yourself again.😑🤣

JD "they're eating the cats and dogs" Vance. LOL. no dice, lil weasel.

For example: Falsely claiming that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Ohio to stoke racial animus in an election year.

Tell it to the "pet-eating Haitians." https://t.co/2K2g2lY9nt

The lack of self-awareness in this administration is off the fucking charts! https://t.co/tJ9aA9Nrwl

Internals so bad they made Vance go woke https://t.co/dXW5v68hI9

@VP #hypocrite - now apologize to the #Haitians, who you claimed are cats and dogs - and are now deporting - the Somalians, Palestinians, and other people of color in this nation that live in fear under YOUR toxic regime of #MAGA / #Trump / #Vance / @GOP due to your #LIES. https://t.co/TEv8MJ2tJ7

Remember when President Trump called Somali migrants "garbage" at a White House cabinet meeting? https://t.co/HtoEfSpvwM pic.twitter.com/B0seIFjqxk

Same guy who admitted to making up stories about Haitian migrants eating cats and dogs in order to win an election. He believes in nothing. https://t.co/h7jy8w3T7x

Wow, the most anti-maga messaging.

This is an odd thing for him to say, given that this administration has a nearly perfect record of only granting asylum to White South African refugees.

This administration has only let in white South African refugees YOU are the guys “eroding the foundations of commonality”

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