JD Vance’s future political prospects not ‘priority’ in private conversations: Ushna Vance

Second lady Usha Vance on Friday said Vice President JD Vance’s future political prospects aren’t a “priority” in their current private conversations, even though he’s widely expected to run for president in 2028.

Vance gave a 30-minute interview with NBC News, ahead of the launch of her podcast, “Storytime With the Second Lady,” premiering on Monday.

During her interview, she said that both she and her husband “don’t always see eye to eye on every issue. 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,”

In reply to a question, the second lady 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,” she added.

Then the focus of the 40-year-old shifted from being a Democrat to voting Republican and their future plans about having a fourth child.

In late January, the Vances announced they were expecting the fourth child as a boy in July. The modern history will see the first time to welcome a couple bearing a child while serving as vice president in the Oval office.

In reply to a question on the current US-Iran tension, the second lady said she considers herself a trusted adviser to her husband, especially when he’s taking a position on an issue that is “important personally.”

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She said, “We have conversations all the time. I really like to understand what’s going on in his world, what he’s focused on, what concerns him, because it’s a marriage. I want to be supportive, and if I don’t know what’s happening, I can’t do that effectively.”

“When something is troubling him” or “when he really wants to talk through something that feels… important personally,” he comes to her, albeit he has an entire staff of policy advisers, she added.