The Ben Shapiro Show - September 01, 2026


JD Vance Goes NUCLEAR On Abdul El-Sayed


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8 minutes

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00:00:00.000 Earlier today, we went through the four reasons why Republicans could get destroyed this November in the midterms.
00:00:04.000 You should go check out that video, too, by the way.
00:00:06.000 There is still one way Republicans can win, maybe by letting the craziest Democrats bury themselves.
00:00:11.000 Vice President Vance and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed sparred this week.
00:00:15.000 The vice president was correct in pointing out El Sayed's anti American agenda.
00:00:18.000 It's not just El Sayed.
00:00:19.000 Texas Senate candidate James Tallarico enthusiastically supports the transing of the kids.
00:00:24.000 He's using Jesus to justify it.
00:00:25.000 That's before you get to the fact that the Democrats sound like commies on economic policy.
00:00:29.000 Let's dive in.
00:00:31.000 What's amazing right now is the Democrats are providing target rich opportunities.
00:00:34.000 They literally decided to run a pro terrorism candidate in Michigan.
00:00:39.000 And apparently, most of the Republican Party is spending its days not talking about it too much.
00:00:45.000 This is why a driven narrative would help.
00:00:48.000 Americans are worried about security.
00:00:50.000 That is a real issue.
00:00:52.000 When you run people for the Senate who are actively pro terrorism, well, that seems like a pretty major security issue.
00:01:01.000 Turns out, according to the Washington Free Beacon, Abdul El Sayed, his father in law, Is among the top leaders of an Islamic organization identified by the federal government as a public facing group for the Muslim Brotherhood, which is an active terrorist organization.
00:01:16.000 CBS is finally pointing this out.
00:01:19.000 Barry Weiss receiving outsized hatred today for objectively making the quality of journalism at CBS better.
00:01:24.000 The headline was As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since September 11th, Abdul El Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack.
00:01:34.000 Now, again, that's a Republican pounces headline, but what did Barry do that was so terrible?
00:01:38.000 She put a spotlight on the fact that Abdul El Sayed had tweeted this on September 11th, 2021.
00:01:45.000 Again, this is five years ago.
00:01:46.000 Okay, this is not 25 years ago.
00:01:47.000 Five years ago.
00:01:48.000 Quote Today, I mourn the 3,000 lives, 6,000 injuries, and infrastructural devastation in New York City, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith.
00:01:56.000 Ignorantly.
00:01:57.000 It's just ignorance.
00:01:58.000 You know, it's a little ignorance.
00:01:59.000 It happens.
00:01:59.000 People just are ignorant.
00:02:01.000 Tomorrow, I'll mourn 1 million plus lives, millions of injuries, and infrastructural devastation in three countries, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my country.
00:02:09.000 Ah, you see, terrorism against Americans? Is driven by just the same kind of moral equivalent ignorance as Americans murdering a million Muslims.
00:02:20.000 Again, it's the same thing that Zarim Mamzani said.
00:02:23.000 This is who they are running for the Senate.
00:02:25.000 This is who they are running for the Senate.
00:02:27.000 And he constantly uses, by the way, the same narratives, always and forever.
00:02:34.000 So yesterday, he was talking about the American military, and here is what he had to say, Abdul El Sayed.
00:02:43.000 We noticed that there were some resurface posts on 9-11, and I was wondering if it's making it challenging to reach more Republican or more moderate voters in this race.
00:02:53.000 Well, I mean, I think all of us look back and say 9-11 was an awful thing that happened in this country.
00:02:58.000 And I think all of us also look back and say, think about all the wars that were fought, and how much safer do we feel like they made us?
00:03:05.000 How many lives did they ruin?
00:03:07.000 And my point is just to say that what happened on 9-11 is a disaster.
00:03:13.000 It was a terrible attack on our country.
00:03:15.000 And our responsibility is also to think about how do we build an America where we are protecting our servicemen and women from being asked to fight wars we have no business fighting that ultimately end up doing harm to people.
00:03:32.000 And we're saying that right now.
00:03:35.000 The reaction to 9 11 is America is bad for fighting wars that had no business fighting and were really, really mean.
00:03:40.000 That's his reaction.
00:03:41.000 Again, he has not changed an iota.
00:03:44.000 He is in favor of radical Islam.
00:03:46.000 He always has been.
00:03:47.000 Nothing changes.
00:03:49.000 And he used the same phraseology always, always in March 2026.
00:03:55.000 And here's what he had to say about the guy who drove a truck into a Jewish preschool.
00:04:02.000 Eamon Ghazali hurt people.
00:04:03.000 There is no justification for what he did.
00:04:05.000 It was wrong and he never should have done it.
00:04:08.000 Hurt people, hurt people.
00:04:09.000 A week earlier, an airstrike killed his niece and nephew.
00:04:12.000 Imagine if that had never happened.
00:04:13.000 Imagine there was no war in Iran.
00:04:15.000 Imagine if there were no airstrikes in Lebanon.
00:04:18.000 Imagine if his family had never died.
00:04:19.000 Imagine there was never an attack on Temple Israel.
00:04:22.000 That's the world that we want to live in.
00:04:25.000 That's the world we need to build for.
00:04:27.000 Violence always begets violence.
00:04:29.000 Only peace can extinguish that.
00:04:31.000 Because hurt people hurt people.
00:04:32.000 Just vile.
00:04:34.000 Hurt people hurt people.
00:04:35.000 Over and over he says this hurt people hurt people, right?
00:04:37.000 Anything that happens to the West is blowback because the West is really, really bad.
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00:04:54.000 AI is doing some amazing things, but it's also giving criminals new tools.
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00:06:00.000 Well, JD Vance gave a speech last night in Michigan at a rally.
00:06:03.000 Obviously, I've had my critiques of the vice president.
00:06:06.000 He is right on here.
00:06:07.000 He is pointing out in Michigan the problems with Abdul El Sayed, the Democratic candidate.
00:06:13.000 But what I am asking you is to remember that the same guy who defends literal terrorism is maybe not going to have your best interests at heart when he gets to Washington, D.C. What I'd ask you to remember is that whoever you send to Washington, whatever policy views you have or you don't have, Send people of good heart who focus on the right issues, who fight for the right people, and who love the United States of America.
00:06:44.000 Well, then JD Vance went after Abdul Al Sayed for going after Usha Vance because there was a whole news cycle in which Abdul Al Sayed suggested that Usha Vance is somehow being held hostage by her husband.
00:06:58.000 But whatever you want to talk about, Abdul, keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth because she's way out of your league.
00:07:09.000 Now, again, I'm not sure that dog is going to hunt particularly well.
00:07:12.000 But with that said, El Sayed is a paradise for campaigning.
00:07:19.000 Can Republicans actually regain focus enough to point out the Democrats are uniting with their most radical elements?
00:07:24.000 Can they?
00:07:26.000 Even Bernie Sanders is now sort of running away from Abdul El Sayed's Hassan Piker connection.
00:07:31.000 Here he was.
00:07:34.000 I'm not going to ask you a ton of questions about Hassan Pikers.
00:07:36.000 Forgive me.
00:07:38.000 No, I'm not.
00:07:40.000 But I want to get at something because I'm curious because Republicans clearly have a strategy to turn him into a boogeyman, right?
00:07:47.000 And I'm wondering are Democrats taking the bait here over what we're saying?
00:07:53.000 Well, I mean, apparently it works when you and others will talk about Mr. Pika.
00:07:58.000 He is a podcaster.
00:08:01.000 But they're putting out statements, right?
00:08:02.000 So are they just nobody?
00:08:04.000 And the other statements are that I'm a communist or that this person is what I mean.
00:08:09.000 It's hard to keep up with what we are or that Muslims are terrorists, you know.
00:08:16.000 Well, I mean, you are a communist.
00:08:18.000 So there's that.
00:08:20.000 Again, Republicans have a lot to run on because the Democratic Party continues to turn to the left.
00:08:24.000 The question is will they regain focus?
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