Second lady Usha Vance has opened up about her differences with Vice President J.D. Vance, saying she was never expected to always see eye to eye with the vice president. “I’m not his employee. I’m not involved in this in any professional sense. … We’re not going to agree on everything,” Vance said in an interview with NBC News. It is understood that Usha Vance was a registered Democrat until at least 2014 and voted Republican when JD ran for Senate. She said she felt no pressure to adhere to any political ideals.“The expectation is that we will be open to dialogue and I will provide meaningful input from the perspective of someone who loves him and wants him to succeed. So even if we don’t agree, I think it’s always very productive. ““There’s always been dialogue,” Usha Vance said. “I really want to understand what’s going on in his world, what he’s really focused on, what he cares about, because this is a marriage. I mean, I want to support him, and if I don’t really know what’s going on, then I can’t do that.”Usha said the vice president has a full set of policy advisers, but when something bothers him, “when he really wants to talk about something that feels more personal or matters more personally, he turns to Usha for help.”
“I am myself, I am myself”
Usha said she was who she was when she was a Democrat and she is who she is today. “I definitely felt comfortable because no one asked me to put any kind of litmus test on anything. I found that I was who I was in 2014. Today I can be myself. I feel comfortable in that world,” Vance said.
Will JD run for president in 2028?
Usha Vance said the vice president’s focus now is on the midterm elections. “JD is very focused on the midterms right now and all the things that are going on at this moment that are obviously very important. So if you come back and ask me in 2027, I’ll have a better idea of what’s going on in his mind. But that’s not a priority in our conversation,” Usha Vance said.