Democrats have been making fun of JD Vance for various things ever since he was named Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024. This week, a Michigan Senate candidate joined the pile-on.
According to Newsweek, Abdul El Sayed, who is the Democratic candidate for the Senate in Michigan this year, has dubbed Vance “low T JD.”
The candidate dropped the new nickname in an appearance on MS NOW, declaring, “Low T JD. It’s always funny, man. He just brings the energy down every time you hear him talk.”
El-Sayed Hits ‘Low-T JD’ And ‘Meek Rogers’ For Refusing To Stand Up To Trump
Abdul El-Sayed responded to Republicans who can’t seem to keep his name out of their mouths while they run around trying to energize their base in red states across the country. https://t.co/hgZXLCoFGP— Glen (@g2glen) October 2, 2026
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“Low-T” is a term referencing low testosterone and is a frequent insult in the pseudo-grouper online circles to which Vance is at least adjacent. Also, it recalls “Low Energy Jeb,” which was an insult frequently lobbed at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, when Donald Trump ran against him in the 2016 Republican primaries.
According to Newsweek, Vance has regularly taken shots this year at El Sayed, who if he wins would be the first Muslim United States senator.
So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no… https://t.co/JApcsCW4kU
— Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (@AbdulElSayed) August 22, 2026
Vance said in August that El Sayed “holds himself out as a working-class hero,” but “doesn’t have a constituency among the working class.” El Sayed had, previously, made a comment about how he’d like to imagine Vance bringing his Indian-American wife, Usha, home to his Appalachian grandmother.
“I’d love to go back in time and tell my papa that there is a man who claims to stand for working people who says not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it you’re a White supremacist,” Vance said in a campaign stop more recently.
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