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Usha #Vance told friends #Trump appalled her. Now she’s working to elect him.
The potential second lady found Trump’s actions on #Jan6 “deeply disturbing,” a friend said. But #ambition & devotion to her husband ultimately drove her to a place in the campaign.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/27/usha-vance-trump-jan6/
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…Usha Chilukuri #Vance —born to prosperous #Indian #Hindu #immigrants, raised in Southern California & employed, until she quit last wk, at a #SanFrancisco #law firm known for its self-consciously #progressive office #culture —appears to represent the sort of cultural & #economic #elite whom #Republicans rail against.…remembered for her circumspect manner & fanatically detailed scheduling habits, she is very different, temperamentally, from freewheeling #Trump & his incendiary #MAGA movement.
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Jai Chabria, a Republican strategist for #JDVance’s 2022 Senate campaign & a family friend, said Usha’s views of TFG have changed, mirroring the evolution of her husband, once a fierce #Trump critic.
“Usha has had a similar shift in views & fully supports Donald Trump & her husband & will do whatever she can to ensure their victory this November,” Chabria said in a statement provided by the Vance spox.A Trump camp spox did not comment for this story.
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That sensation is widely shared among her friends, former co-workers and & alumni, more than two dozen of whom spoke to The Washington Post for this story. Some watched in disbelief on July 17 when Usha #Vance, 38, addressed an overwhelmingly White crowd on the convention floor that tittered uneasily as she joked about her husband learning to cook Indian food & audibly gasped when she mentioned her vegetarian diet.
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A spox for #JDVance declined to comment for this story or to say whether Usha #Vance voted for #Trump in 2020 & 2016. The spox did not dispute the friend’s description of Usha’s opinions about Trump & #Jan6. When the riot occurred, Usha Vance was working as a lawyer & her husband was several months away from launching his Senate campaign.
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“Usha found the incursion on the Capitol & #Trump’s role in it to be deeply disturbing,” the friend recalled. “She was generally appalled by Trump, from the moment of his first election.”
Speaking the morning after Usha #Vance introduced her husband at the Republican National Convention & watched his speech from the same VIP box as Trump, the friend added, “It was surreal to see her sitting next to him last night.”
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#Vance told friends she was outraged by #Trump’s incitement of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol & lamented the social breakdown that fueled his political support, acc/to one friend…. Her view at the time contrasts w/the later pronouncements of her husband & Trump’s newly minted running mate, #JDVance, who has downplayed the storming of the Capitol & called participants who were jailed “political prisoners.”
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During her rise through America’s most prestigious schools, law firms & judicial clerkships, Usha #Vance rarely — if ever — volunteered her opinions on the nation’s bitterly partisan politics to friends & colleagues.
But she did express revulsion at #Trump’s actions on #Jan6, 2021.
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“Am I surprised to see Usha speaking onstage at a major political convention? No. She’s brilliant,” said Chad Callaghan, a Los Angeles-based writer & marketing director who said he was friendly with #Vance in college. “Am I surprised to see her there to support a man who seems to be building political #power by punching down at #trans folks & #immigrants? Yeah, that part caught me off guard.”
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Her appearance also generated confusion…friends & colleagues said they have struggled to reconcile their affection for Usha #Vance w/the hard-right turn of her husband’s #politics.
Among other things, #JDVance has denigrated those crossing the border illegally from Mexico, pushed legislation that would criminalize gender transition procedures for minors, & said he would have acquiesced to #Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election…by certifying #fraudulent slates of electors.
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…Last week, Usha #Vance moved from relative obscurity into the spotlight at a packed convention hall in Milwaukee.
…An outpouring of #racist bile directed against Usha Vance from the #FarRight has erupted online. #NickFuentes, a #WhiteSupremacist & #antisemite who visited #Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, questioned the wisdom of having #JDVance on the ticket, asking, “What kind of values does a man have to marry somebody that far outside your #race, who isn’t even a #Christian?”
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#Vance ended her 2yr fellowship in #China after only 1yr,…enrolling in #Cambridge University & earning a master’s for research on “the methods used for protecting printing rights in 17-cen England,”acc/to Gates Cambridge scholarship prgm. Next, #Yale #Law, she impressed classmates by the sharpness of her intellect but left many guessing about her #political convictions. She did not join any ideological groups such as the #conservative #FederalistSociety or #liberal American Constitution Society…
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“I did grow up in a religious household, my parents are #Hindu, & that was one of the things that made them such good parents, that make them really very good people,” she said in a recent Fox News interview.
#Vance attended public high school; graduated in 2007 from Yale College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; & embarked on a prestigious teaching fellowship in #China. She taught English & American studies at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou….
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#Vance’s parents immigrated to the US from southern #India, settling in San Diego in the 1980s. Her father came from a family of prominent #academics, a relative told the Indian Express,…“I always knew that she would excel academically & in any profession…it runs in the family. Her great grandfather, her grandfather, her father….”
Her father is an #engineer & her mother a #microbiologist. Both are academics: Vance’s mother is a provost at UC San Diego, & her father lectures at San Diego State.
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…picked at age 39 to be #Trump’s running mate on the #GOP presidential ticket, #JDVance has been anointed as the heir apparent to the leader of a movement that has transformed American #politics. Vance, who greeted a raucously cheering crowd on the convention stage w/an earsplitting grin, is clearly reveling in his new heights of success.
That success is also drawing new scrutiny to his much more private wife, the potential 2nd lady, Usha #Vance.
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Though Usha #Vance worked for prominent #conservative judges & voted in the 2022 #Republican primary in Ohio when her husband was on the ballot, she has registered to vote as a #Democrat at least twice, records show: as a teenager in San Diego in 2004 & as a #law student in New Haven, Conn., in 2010. In the fall of 2014 she registered to vote in D.C. without a party affiliation, acc/to elections ofcls.
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