Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, met his wife, Usha, at Yale Law School.
Their backgrounds were different. Vance, 39, is, by his own admission, a Catholic Scots-Irish hillbilly from a working-class family in Middletown, Ohio, who served as a Marine before attending law school. Usha Chilukuri Vance, 36, is a Hindu, the daughter of Indian immigrants, who grew up in San Diego, California.
As of 2014, she was a registered Democrat. Even last month, she sounded ambivalent about her husband running for the second-highest office in the land. “I’m not raring to change anything about our lives right now, but I believe in J.
D., and I really love him, and so we’ll just sort of see what happens with our life,” she said in an interview with Fox and Friends. How he depends on her Vance is on record, however, as depending on her.
“I’m one of those guys who really benefits from having sort of a powerful female voice over his left shoulder saying, “Don’t do that, do that,” Vance said in a 2020 podcast. That voice belonged to his grandmother when she was alive. “Now,” he said on the podcast, “it’s Usha.
” Described as a leader and a bookworm by friends, the daughter of a mechanical engineer and a biologist, she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University. Then, she attended Cambridge University in England as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, receiving a Master of Philosophy degree in 2010. Subsequently, she graduated from Y.
