How ‘Spirit Guide’ Usha Vance Guided JD Vance’s Meteoric Rise

From her speech, the Americans discovered that JD Vance learned to cook Indian dishes that, among other things, adapted to his wife’s vegetarian diet.

And when the time came to defend her husband, she was ready to do so.

Last July, JD Vance’s previous comments calling some Democratic politicians “childless cat ladies” resurfaced on social media, and it appears his wife did the most damage control to quell the ensuing riot.

She described his remarks as “a tongue-in-cheek joke,” reframing them as a reflection on the challenges facing working-class families in America, and expressed a desire for critics to see the larger context of what her husband said.

In an interview with Fox, she admitted that she does not agree with her husband on all political issues, although she said that she never doubted his intentions.

“Usha was never a very political person,” JJ Snidow, their former classmate at Yale Law School, told the BBC. “What America saw her as a very impressive, reserved person is really – that’s who she is.”

Charles Tyler says Usha Vance doesn’t fit neatly into any political box.

“The reason so many people have difficulty characterizing her politics is not because she keeps her cards close to the vest,” he says, “but because she doesn’t conform to the kind of ideological tribes that most of us have identified with.”

That will likely serve her well as America’s second lady, a role that has historically been removed from the cut and thrust of Washington’s partisan politics.

But with JD Vance’s star firmly on the rise, few who know the power couple doubt that Usha Vance will continue to serve as his spiritual guide, perhaps even one day as First Lady of the United States.