Vice President JD Vance stood in a Middletown steel plant Friday and reached back nearly a century to Huey Long's Depression-era populist slogan
Vance Channels Huey Long, Torches Democrats as Sharia Defenders
At a Middletown steel plant, the VP revives Depression-era populism and targets Michigan's El-Sayed for calling Sharia criticism white supremacy.

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JD Vance unloads on Abdul El-Sayed over Sharia remarks: ‘That’s not my grandpa’s Democratic Party’
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