Second Lady Usha Vance opened up about her disagreement with Vice President JD Vance and said she was never expected to be always on the same page with the VP. “I’m not his staffer. I’m not involved in this in any professional sense. … There’s no expectation that we are going to see eye to eye on everything,” Vance said in an interview with NBC News.
Usha Vance was known to be a registered Democrat until at least 2014 and voted for Republicans when JD ran for Senate. She said she does not feel any pressure to conform to any political ideas.
“The expectation is that we are going to be open-minded and have a conversation, and that I’ll provide meaningful input from, you know, the perspective of someone who loves him and wants him to succeed. So even if we don’t agree, it’s — I think it’s always very productive.”
“There are conversations all the time,” Usha Vance said. “I do really like to understand what’s going on in his world, what he’s really focused on, what concerns he has, because it’s a marriage. I mean, I want to be supportive of him, and if I don’t really know what’s going on, then I can’t do that.”
Usha said the VP has an entire staff of policy advisers but he turns to Usha when something is troubling him, “when he really wants to talk through something that feels more, kind of, intensely personal or important personally.”
‘I was myself, I am myself’
Usha said when she was a Democrat, she was herself and today also she is herself. “I do feel very comfortable in that no one has ever asked me to engage in any kind of litmus test on anything. And what I’ve found is that I was myself in 2014. I can be myself today. And I feel very comfortable in that world,” Vance said.
JD to run for president in 2028?
Usha Vance said the Vice President is now focused on the midterms. “JD is very focused on the midterm elections right now, on all the things that are happening right this moment, which are obviously exceedingly important. And so if you come back in 2027 and ask me, I’ll have a better sense of, you know, what he’s thinking in that way. But that’s not the priority in our conversations,” Usha Vance said.
