J.D. Vance’s Wife Says Faith and Family are Most Important to Him
For those who care deeply about faith, family, and freedom, it’s important to know where presidential candidates and vice presidential candidates stand on public policies that particularly impact families — such as the child tax credit, parental rights, school choice, religious freedom, and the sanctity of human life. Usha Vance, wife of Republican vice presidential candidate and Senator J.D. […]
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For those who care deeply about faith, family, and freedom, it’s important to know where presidential candidates and vice presidential candidates stand on public policies that particularly impact families — such as the child tax credit, parental rights, school choice, religious freedom, and the sanctity of human life.
Usha Vance, wife of Republican vice presidential candidate and Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), has brought attention in recent weeks to the fact that family is of utmost importance to her husband. In her moving speech before the delegates at the Republican National Convention in July, Vance described her husband as the most determined person she knows “with one overriding ambition: to become a husband and a father and to build the kind of tight-knit family that he had longed for as a child.” She explained, “His goals in this new role are the same that he has pursued for our family — to keep people safe, to create opportunities to build a better life, and to solve problems with an open mind.”
Vance and his wife first gained national attention from his book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” which was released in 2016 and became a New York Times bestseller. In 2020, it became a movie which has received renewed attention on Netflix since former President Trump chose Vance to be his running mate. In “Hillbilly Elegy,” Vance writes about his family’s struggle with poverty, family violence, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
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In an interview with Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt this week, Usha Vance said about her husband, “There is nothing that he cares about more than being there for his kids. He wakes up after a really late night of travel … at 6 a.m. to make sure that they have an elaborate breakfast the next day. He is just determined to be there for them.” Vance went on to say that her husband is thankful for role models such as his grandmother, aunt, and his uncle who currently lives with them now. Usha herself grew up in a loving family with both of her parents and her sister. She said their family means everything to them and keeps them well-grounded.
Usha told Earhardt that what her husband “really really cares about” is “the people he grew up around. There are a lot of people that just haven’t had the opportunity to wake up every day and know that their kids are going to have a better life than they had themselves, and I just think that J.D. is not afraid to push the boundaries and to shake things up in the way that will allow more people to wake up … to know that they’re giving their kids a better life and that it’s possible.”
When Earhardt asked Vance about her husband’s controversial words that he used in a 2021 interview, referring to some liberal policymakers as “childless cat ladies,” Usha said she wished people would go back and take a look at the context in which he used those words. She explained, “What he was really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country, and sometimes our policies are designed in a way that make it even harder. And we should be asking ourselves, ‘Why is that true? What is it about our leadership and the way that they think about the world that makes it so hard sometimes for parents?’ And that’s the conversation that I really think we should have, and I understand why he was saying that.”
Earhardt asked, “What do you say to the women who were offended or were hurt by that?
Usha replied, “I think I would say, first of all, that J.D. absolutely at the time and today would never, ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family who really was struggling with that. He made that clear at the time. He has made that clear today. And we have lots of friends who have been in that position. It is challenging and never ever anything that anyone would want to mock or make fun of. I also understand there are a lot of other reasons why people may choose not to have families and many of those reasons are very good. I think what I would say is, let’s try to look at the real conversation he is trying to have and engage with it and understand for those of us who do have families, for the many of us who want to have families and for whom it’s really hard, what can we do to make it better? What can we do to make it easier to live in 2024?”
Earhardt then asked Vance to explain the importance of family and society to her husband. Usha answered, “I think it comes from his background. It comes from the fact that he knows that he would not be anywhere near where he is today if he hadn’t had family members looking out for him every stretch of the way. I think it comes from seeing my family and knowing that the stability and calm that I provide in our family life comes from all of the support that I had, just the faith that things would be okay because I had people behind me. I think that J.D. needs family to thrive.”
In a speech in Atlanta recently, the Ohio senator highlighted some of the family-friendly policies he cares so deeply about — which Democrats in Congress and the White House vehemently oppose. He pointed out, “Barack Obama said we cling to God and guns; remember that Hillary Clinton called us ‘deplorables’; and now Kamala Harris says we’re ‘weird.’ Well, Kamala, I’m glad you brought that up. Let’s talk about some things that are weird. We think it’s weird that Democrats want to put sexually explicit books in toddlers’ libraries. We think it’s weird that the far Left wants to allow biological males to beat the living crap out of women in boxing, and we think it’s weird for a presidential candidate to bail convicted rapists and murderers out of prison, and that’s what Kamala Harris did.”
To learn how the Biden-Harris administration’s policies have hurt families, check out FRC Action’s Biden-Harris Historical Record and Biden Administration Actions Addressing Life, Family, and Religious Freedom and compare them to the previous Trump Administration’s Accomplishments.
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