At a recent campaign event, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance drew attention for comments about his wife Usha’s faith, saying he hopes she will “eventually” embrace Christianity. His remarks, made while addressing a crowd of supporters, have sparked debate over his views on interfaith marriage and religious tolerance.
Responding to a question from an audience member about his Hindu wife and their interfaith household, Vance said his family had agreed to raise their children as Christians. He described Usha as his “best friend,” saying they talk openly about faith and family life. “Most Sundays, Usha will come with me to church,” Vance said. “Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in 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.”
Vance added that he respects his wife’s free will and that their arrangement “works out” because “one of the most important Christian principles is that you respect free will.” He also shared that their two eldest children attend a Christian school and that their eight-year-old son had recently completed his first communion.
Usha Vance’s Previous Remarks on Her Hindu Roots
The candidate’s public hope for his wife’s conversion contrasts with Usha Vance’s own comments about her family’s faith made just months earlier. In a June 2024 interview with Fox News, they discussed each other’s faith.
JD Vance said, “I had never been baptized. You know I was raised Christian and I had never been baptized. I was baptized the first time in 2018, I think. Usha was not raised Christian; she is not Christian. I remember when I started to read and engage with my own faith, Usha was very supportive.”
When asked why she was supportive, Usha spoke positively of the Hindu beliefs she was raised with. “There are a few different reasons. One is I did grow up in a religious household.”
She said that she believes her parents‘ Hindu faith is “one of the things that made them such good parents, that make them really very good people.”
Speaking about her husband’s journey to Catholicism, she framed it as a personal path that was right for him, recalling, “I knew that JD was searching for something. This just felt right for him.” Her remarks focused on his spiritual quest rather than any commentary on her own religious identity.
When asked how they merged two different faiths while raising their children, Usha said, “There are a lot of things that we just agree on, especially when it comes to family life, how to raise our kids and so I think the answer really is we just talk a lot.”
JD is a class A hypocrite. What he said about Usha’s faith in the past and now… pic.twitter.com/LTnVvkoSP2
— Nirmalya Dutta (@NonsensicalNemo) October 30, 2025
Vance has frequently credited Usha for shaping his outlook and career, describing her as his “spirit guide” during their time as classmates at Yale Law School. In a 2022 interview with The New York Times, he said, “She instinctively understood the questions I didn’t even know to ask and she always encouraged me to seek opportunities that I didn’t know existed.”
(Source: Yahoo News)
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