
(IntegrityTimes.com) – Usha Chilukuri Vance is now in the media spotlight following the GOP’s official announcement of her husband JD Vance as former President Donald Trump’s running mate. The Republican Ohio senator was named as the vice president pick at the Republican National Convention.
Her parents, who raised her in San Diego, were immigrants from India. Vance has stated that her parents were religious Hindus. She and JD Vance met in 2013 when they were studying at Yale Law School. They married in 2014, and have three children – Ewan Blaine, Vivek and Mirabel. The couple live with their children in Cincinnati.
Usha Chilukuri Vance once served as Chief Justice John Roberts’ clerk, and is an Ivy League-educated litigator. When she served as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, she clerked for Justice Brett Kavanagh, and for Judge Amul Thapar in Kentucky’s US District Court.
Upon being named as Trump’s running mate, JD Vance joked about the United Kingdom potentially ending up as the first nuclear-armed Islamist country, in reference to the leftist Labour Party recently ousting the Conservative and Unionist Party.
Trump’s running mate called the former president “America’s Hitler” in the past before warming to him during his first presidential term. Vance has been accused of being a racist himself, and dismissed claims in 2022 that he supports the Great Replacement Theory, which argues that there is a coordinated conspiracy to replace white people in countries with a majority white population.
Vance accused an Ohio newspaper of racism in 2022 when it published a cartoon mocking his Indian-American wife. When Usha Chilukuri Vance was asked by reporters in June whether she was ready for the publicity in the event Trump chose him as his running mate, she called her husband’s first campaign an “adventure” and said no one can ever be ready for the level of scrutiny. When asked what she would focus on as Second Lady, Vance did not answer, and instead said it was too early to think about it when she was focused on her family.
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