JD Vance
Role at the time: Vice president of the United States, speaking at a political and economic event
Condemned
Response to this claim
El-Sayed supports Sharia law and treats opposition to it as white supremacy.
“not only should we have Sharia law, but if you criticize it, you’re a White supremacist.”
Watch the original video (opens in a new tab)JD Vance criticizes El-Sayed’s Sharia-law position in Middletown — full speechFull 34:32 speech; El-Sayed passage between discussion of the Democratic Party and Sherrod Brown; matching Factba.se transcript 21:16 to 21:58
Complete August 21, 2026 economic speech in Middletown, Ohio. The passage also appears in the Factba.se transcript of the speech. Vance attributes support for Sharia and hostility to its critics to El-Sayed; that attribution is the disputed position, not something we have established.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
He used the attributed position to criticize El-Sayed’s political values rather than describe them neutrally.