On July 15, 2024, Donald Trump announced his running mate for the 2024 ticket.
He selected Ohio Senator J.D.
It’s not just the nominee’s own history that’s been described that way, however.
As a result, and as the political campaign heats up, several strange things about J.D.
and Usha Vance’s marriage have emerged.
In the case of J.D.
Vance, it seems that he fell hard and then he tried to run away.
“I thought about her constantly.
confessed that he wasn’t sure how to process the emotions he was feeling.
“I tried to get away, but Usha wouldn’t let me,” J.D.
“I tried to break everything off multiple times …
I’d scream and I’d yell.
I’d do all of the hateful things that my mother had done.
And then I’d feel guilty and desperately afraid.”
and Usha have been together ever since.
Where’s my constituency?”
Nowadays, of course, Vance is on the ticket right alongside his former foe.
A friend toldThe Washington Postthat Usha was no fan of Trump, and as recently as 2021.
“Usha found the incursion on the Capitol and Trump’s role in it to be deeply disturbing.
She was generally appalled by Trump, from the moment of his first election,” the friend said.
Usha Vance was a lawyer at a very progressive law firm
It’s no secret that J.D.
Vance is now opposed to anything that might be considered “woke.”
Vance asked nominees, according a memo leaked toThe Washington Post.
“It has no place in our federal government or anywhere else in our society.”
One place that is committed to diversity?J.D.
Vance’s own wife’s law firm.
It’s unclear how the Vances have been able to square their differing approaches to diversity.
Vance in a way that got the crowd excited about him.
Instead, when she talked about her husband’s diet, her speech was met with some confusion.
“How do you take these two systems … and reconcile them?”
“The meat and potatoes the white nationalism that J.D.
Vance is trying to get credentialed in and Usha Vance’s vegetarianism …
It feels incongruent.”
Vance’s defense of his wife against racism was lackluster
After J.D.
White nationalist Nick Fuentes, for example, railed against J.D.
and Usha’s marriage in a podcast.
“This guy has a non-White wife.”
Additionally, anABCreporter prompted J.D.
Clearly he doesn’t value his racial identity, his heritage."
took the opportunity to praise his new boss' willingness to sit down with white supremacists like Fuentes.
My wife is tough enough to handle it."
It’s not the only clunky, half-hearted defense J.D.
has offered regarding his wife.
Appearing on former Fox News host Megyn Kelly’spodcast, J.D.
But I just, I love Usha.
She’s such a good mom."
hadn’t defended her more strongly.
One social media userwrote, “Who speaks about their wife this way?”
Vance told Tucker Carlson onFox Newsback in 2021.
“And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” he said.
(Harris has two stepkids, for the record).
Naturally, this “clarification,” much like J.D.
’s original remarks,didn’t sit wellwith many.
Vance has expressed confusion about the concept of being biracial, despite having biracial children
Shortly after J.D.
Sadly, many of the subsequent attacks centered around Harris' race.
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage.
“So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
Users on X, formerly Twitter, called out J.D.
and then we can be done with this convo?”
