Vance's decade-old ‘great regrets’ resurfaces as El-Sayed’s jab at second lady comes back to bite him

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Vice President JD Vance hits the campaign trail to showcase the Trump administration’s economic agenda. A decade before Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed appeared to question how JD Vance’s grandfather would have regarded Usha Vance, the vice president wrote that one of his "great regrets" was that his grandparents never got to meet his wife. "Last, but certainly not least, is my darling wife, Usha," Vance wrote in 2016 in the acknowledgments of his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy." He added, "… though it is one of the great regrets of my life that Mamaw and Papaw never met her, it is the source of my greatest joy that I did." The passage was cited repeatedly on social media over the weekend as conservatives dragged the Michigan Senate candidate over his swipe at second lady Usha Vance. The controversy comes as El-Sayed fights for Michigan’s