Vance slams racist attacks on wife’s heritage: ‘Didn’t sign up for it’
By
Emily Hallas
August 12, 2024 12:36 pm
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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) defended his wife from attacks on her Indian roots as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up.
During an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, the Ohio senator said he wished his wife’s critics would “just keep their mouth shut, or at least focus on me.” Usha Vance has faced backlash from white supremacists after former President Donald Trump tapped her husband to be his running mate.
“She’s way out of their league,” Vance told CBS host Margaret Brennan on Sunday. “I get pissed off sometimes,” Trump’s running mate added, “when people attack your family … for something that no person can control.”
Usha Chilukuri was born to parents who immigrated to the United States from India in the late 1970s. She married Vance in 2014, and they have three children together. While her husband is a practicing Catholic, Usha Vance holds to her Hindu faith and has been on the receiving end of attacks on her Indian heritage as she stumps for Trump’s campaign.
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