Beverly Aikins, the mother of Vice President JD Vance, said that she would “probably punch” Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for making fun of her son.

Speaking with Fox News’ Tomi Lahren on her show, “Tomi Lahren is Fearless,” Aikins was shown a clip of El-Sayed saying, “Can you imagine, he’s got brown kids, at some point he’s going to have a really awkward conversation with his kids, like, you made your career hating people who are different.” Aikins told Lahren after the clip that she thought El-Sayed was an “idiot.”

“I think that man’s an idiot,” she said after the clip.”Those are my babies. I love those babies. I would do anything for them. I love Usha as if she were my own daughter.”

Aikins commented that she doesn’t “pay attention to people like that.” Vance’s mother said that she believed anyone who makes comments like El-Sayed must be “jealous” of the second family.

“It makes me mad, honestly,” Aikins said. “But in the long run, I’m not going to do anything about it. I mean, you know, I’d probably punch the guy if I’d ever seen him, and then that would get me in trouble.”Vance’s relationship with his mother was described in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, which detailed the future vice president’s upbringing in rural Kentucky as well as his mother’s struggle with addiction. The Hill reported that Aikins celebrated a decade of sobriety in 2025 in the White House’s Roosevelt Room with her son, his family, and President Donald Trump.

The feud between Vance and El-Sayed reportedly started when Vance labeled the Democratic nominee “very, very evil” during a campaign stop in Detroit. “There’s something about Abdul El-Sayed that is very, very evil and on the rise in the United States of America today,” Vance had said.

El-Sayed fired back at Vance during an interview on CNN, saying, “Well, let me tell you what’s evil.” He added, “Evil is the idea of stripping away people’s healthcare when they absolutely have no other option.”

“What’s evil is to do that, so that you can pass a tax cut for billionaires,” El-Sayed continued. Vance, during a White House event following the Michigan primary, also commented that America did “not want a President Abdul El-Sayed.”

Vance made the comments during a meeting with his anti-fraud roundtable while flanked by White House deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and Andrew Ferguson. “We don’t want the next administration, whoever — god forbid you’re gonna have President El-Sayed in three years.”

“We don’t want him to undo all the incredible work that we’ve been doing when we’ve been taking out the fraudsters and saving the American people money,” he added. El-Sayed shocked many, including the president, when he defeated U.S. Rep. Hayley Stevens in the primary.

Despite this, Steven accepted defeat and promised to support El-Sayed as he takes on Republican Mike Rogers, who ran unopposed. “I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election,” she said.

“This was a thorough and rigorous campaign that brought out the full span of views within the Democratic Party – and that is why we have primaries,” she added.