US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

JD Vance is doubling down on comments he made about wanting his wife, Usha Vance, to convert to Christianity – remarks that drew political backlash from some quarters.

At an event with Turning Point USA at the University of Mississippi to honor the conservative group’s slain founder Charlie Kirk, an audience member questioned the US vice-president about how he sees the links between American patriotism and Christianity.

“Why are we making Christianity one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys? To show that I love America just as much as you do?” the audience member asked, after pointing out that Vance’s wife, Usha, is Hindu and they are raising their children in an interfaith marriage.

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    She knew who she was marrying so I feel nothing for her. But I feel so bad for those poor kids, they will grow up in the center of this racist facist shit storm.

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      Did she? I mean turning from anti-trump to full blown maga is a pretty hard 180 degree turn. If my partner were to do something like that, I wouldn’t think I’d know them anymore.

      Then again, you might be right, and she knowingly married an opportunist without any morals or principles. And then such a turn is just another wednesday.

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        People like this don’t suddenly become this way, he’s probably always been an opportunist willing to sink to any level to get what he wants and the only thing she might be surprised by is the anti Indian hate that is causing problems for her now, I guess she assumed the hate would remain focused on Mexicans, blacks etc.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance

        This is a good summary of his life so you can know what you’re talking about. JD was already attending Yale and buds with peter thiel before she married him (that is, he was already an awful person). And she attended Yale too so she of all people should know how awful people who go to Yale are.