Trump in shock? His deputy loses his cool: "Take my wife's name out of your mouth"

A sharp and emotionally charged confrontation is shaking the political system in the United States: Vice President J.D. Vance used a tense election rally in Michigan to publicly settle a score with the Democratic candidate for the Senate in the state, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

Vance, furious over personal remarks directed at his family, did not mince words, calling his rival a "very evil man" and shouted to the cheers of the crowd:

"Take my wife's name the hell out of your mouth, she is way above your level."

Below-the-belt blows and veiled racism. The unusual attack came following a series of statements by El-Sayed, who is also known as a sharp critic of Israel. Last week, the Democratic candidate posted a jab on social media, in which he wondered if Vance was willing to "take his wife back in time to meet his grandfather."

The implication was clear: Vance's late grandfather would not have approved of his marriage to Usha, a daughter of immigrants from India. This provocation was added to things El-Sayed said in a podcast last April, where he claimed that Vance built his career on "hatred of the other," made offensive remarks about their mixed-race children, and even went so far as to hint that Usha is not attracted to her husband at all.

The battle for the Jewish vote and the outrageous statement. Beyond the personal attack and the defense of his family, Vance's confrontation has weighty political implications. His visit to Michigan was intended, among other things, to deepen the rift between El-Sayed and the Jewish voters in the state — a critical electoral segment in the tight race against the Republican candidate, Mike Rogers.

El-Sayed (who is Muslim) has been trying lately to minimize damage with the Jewish community, following a statement that caused deep shock in March. After a shocking car-ramming attack at a synagogue in West Bloomfield (in which the terrorist Ayman Muhammad Ghazali was killed), El-Sayed chose to respond with the words: "Hurt people hurt people" — a statement that was perceived as lenient and accommodating toward terror.

Moments before taking the stage at that same rally to attack El-Sayed and accuse him of dividing American society, Vance made sure to meet personally with the synagogue's rabbi and the security guard who was wounded in that difficult incident, and conveyed a clear message of uncompromising support for the Jewish community.

As recalled, Vance recently made headlines in Israel after a public confrontation with Channel 14 presenter Yinon Magal, regarding the agreement with Iran. In an interview with Megyn Kelly, Vance referred to the Israeli journalist who he said called him an "inferior person," and brushed off the criticism against the deal. The Vice President claimed that the Israeli opponents have no real alternative other than "endless conflict," and clarified that the US holds the reins and does not intend to deploy 300,000 soldiers in Iran just to please the critics.