Vice President JD Vance is the heir apparent to the MAGA movement and frontrunner in 2028. However, his marriage is his greatest political liability. At a recent TPUSA event which JD Vance took questions, he was asked about faith and his marriage.
And yes, my wife did not grow up Christian. I think it’s fair to say that she grew up in a Hindu family, but not a particularly religious family in either direction. In fact, when I met my wife, we were both, I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist, and that’s what I think she would have considered herself as well. You know, everybody has to come to their own arrangement here. The way that we’ve come to our arrangement is she’s my best friend, we talk to each other about this stuff. So we decided to raise our kids Christian. Our two oldest kids who go to school, they go to a Christian school. uh
Our eight-year-old did his first communion about a year ago. That’s the way that we have come to our arrangement. [Crowd applause] My eight-year-old was also very proud of his first communion. Thank you guys. I’ll tell him that Ole Miss wishes him the best.
I think everybody has to have this own conversation when you’re in a marriage. mean, it’s true for friends of mine who are in Protestant and Catholic marriages, friends of mine who are in, you know, atheists and Christian marriages. You just gotta talk to, the only advice I can give is you just gotta talk to the person that God has put you with and you’ve gotta make those decisions as a family unit. For us, it works out. Now, most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church. As I’ve told her and I’ve said publicly and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends,
Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I honestly do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way. But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me. That’s something you work out with your friends, with your family, with the person that you love. Again, one of the most important Christian principles is that you respect free will.
Usha’s closer to the priest who baptized me than maybe I am. They talk about this stuff. My attitude is you figure this stuff out as a family and you trust in God to have a plan and you try to follow it as best as you can. And that’s what I try to do.
Vance handled the question well, acknowledging that he has grown in his faith, whilst Usha remains indifferent, but is slowly warming up to Christianity. He clearly articulated that he was not raising his children to be Hindu, demonstrating that he is the head of the household.
This is a far better situation than was left to the imagination. And for someone who began a marriage in a pre-faith situation, Vance is handling himself considerably well.
