Second Lady Usha Vance admitted to having disagreements and “open-minded” conversations with her husband, Vice President JD Vance, during an exclusive interview with NBC News.
“I’m not his staffer. I’m not involved in this in any professional sense. … There’s no expectation that we are going to see eye to eye on everything,” she said. “The expectation is that we are going to be open-minded and have a conversation, and that I’ll provide meaningful input from, you know, the perspective of someone who loves him and wants him to succeed. So even if we don’t agree, it’s — I think it’s always very productive.”
Vance, 40, participated in a 30-minute interview to promote the launch of her podcast, Storytime With the Second Lady, which premieres on Monday (March 30), and discussed a slew of topics including her shift from being a Democrat to voting Republican, whether her husband intends to run for president in 2028 and the couple’s decision to have a fourth child, a boy, expected in July.
“There are conversations all the time,” she said. “I do really like to understand what’s going on in his world, what he’s really focused on, what concerns he has, because it’s a marriage. I mean, I want to be supportive of him, and if I don’t really know what’s going on, then I can’t do that.”
Vance said her husband has an entire staff of policy advisers, but goes to her “when something is troubling him” or “when he really wants to talk through something that feels more, kind of, intensely personal or important personally.” The second lady said her husband’s future political prospects aren’t a “priority” in their private talks, though he is expected by many to run for president in 2028.
“JD is very focused on the midterm elections right now, on all the things that are happening right this moment, which are obviously exceedingly important. And so if you come back in 2027 and ask me, I’ll have a better sense of, you know, what he’s thinking in that way. But that’s not the priority in our conversations,” she said when asked about a potential presidential campaign.
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