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Introduced by his wife, JD Vance praises emotional famous mom for her sobriety in rousing VP speech

July 18, 2024 | | Print Article

The consensus is in: Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance knocked his RNC speech out of the park — and so did his wife, Usha!

Vance’s speech in particular drew on his experience growing up in a struggling, working-class family — the “forgotten men and women” of America — amid “decades of betrayal” by “career politicians” like current President Joe Biden.

He spoke of Biden’s support for NAFTA, which gutted his hometown, and his vote for the “disastrous invasion of Iraq.”

He said the current president has been a “politician in Washington for longer than I’ve been alive” and that he’s been “the champion of every major policy initiative to make America weaker and poorer.”

“Jobs were sent overseas, and our children were sent to war,” Vance continued.

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Then he turned to the fentanyl crisis.

“Every now and then I will get a call from a relative back home who asks, ‘Did you know so and so?’” he said. “And I’ll remember a face from years ago. And then I’ll hear, ‘They died of an overdose.’ As always, America’s ruling class wrote the checks; communities like mine paid the price.”

“That divide between the few with their power and comfort in Washington and us only widened. From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders to stagnating wages, the people who governed this country have failed and failed again,” he added.

At one point, Vance brought up his mother, who struggled through addiction issues as a single mother. While on stage, Vance told her he loved her and gave her a shout-out for staying sober for 10 years.

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Vance was outshined by only one person at the RNC: his wife, who in fact introduced him to the audience.

“Vance was introduced Wednesday night by his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, who talked of the stark difference between how she and her husband grew up — she a middle-class immigrant from San Diego, and he from a low-income Appalachian family,” the Associated Press noted.

Usha also recalled how the two met and fell in love.

“When I was asked to introduce my husband, JD Vance, to all of you, I was at a loss,” she said. “It occurred to me that there was only one thing to do: to explain, from the heart, why I love and admire JD, why I stand here beside him today, and why he will make a great vice president of the United States.”

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“I met JD in law school when he was fresh out of Ohio State, which he attended with the support of the G.I. Bill. He was then, as now, the most interesting person I knew. A working-class guy who had overcome childhood traumas that I could barely fathom to end up at Yale Law School. A tough Marine who had served in Iraq, but whose idea of a good time was playing with puppies,” she added.

She went on to describe her husband Vance as a “meat and potatoes” guy who voluntarily learned to cook Indian food to please her and her family.

“Although he’s a meat and potatoes kinda guy, he adapted to my vegetarian diet & learned to cook food from my mother,” she revealed. “Indian food. Before I knew it, he’d become an integral part of my family. The JD I knew then is the same JD Vance you see today, except for that beard.”

While both Vance’s speech and his wife’s speech prompted praise on social media, Usha’s in particular drew attention because of her Melania Trump-like beauty and eloquence.

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“Melania Trump and Usha Vance are going to be the most beautiful First Lady and Second Lady in US History,” one Trump/Vance supporter tweeted.

“Usha Vance is so humble and so eloquent. She and JD Vance deserve the American Dream,” another supporter added.

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