El-Sayed's message to Vance: "Wolverine one, Buckeye zero."

FOX 5 New York's victory-speech clip turns a January swearing-in into a Michigan-Ohio football joke.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 43,573 views a day, 22 times a normal first day on this channel (1,941).

El-Sayed jabs Trump and Vance in victory speech

Abdul El-Sayed has a greeting for JD Vance, a football score to announce and a simpler way for Donald Trump to address him.

FOX 5 New York's short excerpt from the Michigan Democrat's Senate victory speech drew roughly 36,000 views in its first 16 hours, an unusually fast start for the station's Shorts.

At the podium, El-Sayed addresses Vance as "Habibi" before savoring the prospect of the vice president swearing him in come January. Then comes the sporting shorthand: "Wolverine one, Buckeye zero." It borrows the identities of the University of Michigan and Ohio State, whose football rivalry gives the political jab its local flavor.

Trump gets the closing line. "Donald. Look, I know you struggle with my name," El-Sayed says, pausing before offering an alternative: "So after JD swears me in in January, you can just go on and call me Senator." The audience cheers and laughs.

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The numbers

The victory-speech excerpt is drawing views far faster than FOX 5 New York's usual Short.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,941

this video

43,573

subscribers

1,010,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

747,861,829

views per day

1,477,068

typical day: 507,010

the video

views

35,562

likes

859

comments

123

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

CBS New York

1,200,000

CBS LA

1,170,000

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

1,080,000

FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth

1,020,000

FOX 5 New York

1,010,000

FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

845,000

As of November 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.