MILWAUKEE — Usha Vance, JD Vance's wife was on the Republican convention stage on Wednesday night for her primetime debut as she introduced her husband, the Republican Vice Presidential nominee.
"When I was asked to introduce my husband JD Vance to all of you, I was at a loss," she said. "What can I say that hasn't already been said. I mean the man was a subject of a Ron Howard movie."
Usha Vance laid out the stark differences between how she and her husband grew up.
The senator is from a low-income Appalachian family and she came from a middle-class immigrant home in San Diego. "My background is very different from JD's. I grew up in San Diego in a middle class community, with two loving parents, both immigrants from India, and a wonderful sister. That JD and I could meet at all, let alone fall in love to marry is a testament to this great country."
"When JD met me, he approached our differences with curiosity and enthusiasm," she said.
With a kiss to his wife, Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance walked on to the stage at Fiserv Forum to a country western tune.
Usha Chilukuri Vance, wife of JD Vance, is a Yale law graduate and attorney. She stood next to her husband on Monday as he was named the Republican vice presidential nominee at the Republican National Convention.
The 38-year-old Chilukuri Vance was raised in San Diego, by Indian immigrants. Her mother is a biologist and provost at the University of California at San Diego; her father is an engineer, according to JD Vance’s campaign.
She received an undergraduate degree at Yale University and a master of philosophy at the University of Cambridge through the Gates Cambridge scholarship.