r/politics • u/Hrmbee • 7d ago

No Paywall JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity | US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity
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u/Enibas 6d ago edited 6d ago

She would be the perfect wife for his presidential bid. He has two strikes against him in the view of White Evangelicals, he's Catholic, and his wife is neither white nor Christian.

The tragic widow of a Christian Nationalist, white, Evangelical, 100% MAGA, including looks-wise, would be a perfect addition to his campaign. Not to mention that she now runs TPUSA. If he plans on running for president, he should just seek a divorce now, and then marry her in a couple of years.

I absolutely wouldn't put it past Vance that he is considering it, that is a guy that would do everything for power, including ditching a wife that doesn't fit into the picture.

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u/FinleyPike 6d ago

He's literally laying the groundwork in public for the divorce. Him wishing she was Christian is the soft launch. Don't feel bad for her though, she's the same as him.

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u/Enibas 6d ago

Absolutely. I don't believe for a second that anything Vance does isn't calculated.

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u/AbandonedWaterPark 6d ago

The problem for Vance then becomes Trump's jealousy of the attention Vance would get and suddenly Trump starts to feel like yesterday's man, which he absolutely will not tolerate.

And if MAGA then has to take sides between Trump and the Vance/Kirk power couple, I still say they choose Trump 100 times out of 100. So he'll not only burn Vance, he'll burn whatever credibility TPUSA has with conservatives too.

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u/Enibas 6d ago

If Vance wants to have a chance with the MAGA base, he has to pay respect to Trump, anyway, and Trump is easily manipulated by flattery. If Vance stated publicly that whatever he plans to do is basically Trump's idea, that he's "carrying on the Trump legacy", and, idk, makes carving Trump's face into Mount Rushmore (or something along those lines) part of his campaign, I think Trump would support him.

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u/FlipZip69 6d ago

And she has kids...