Vance Praises Usha’s “Divine Patience” At Home With Four Kids

WASHINGTON, DC- Vice President J.D. Vance put his family at the center of his political message as he defended the American family and urged Republicans to win the November midterm elections, while his wife, Usha Vance, stayed home caring for their six-week-old son and three other children.

Speaking at a Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Vance said Usha had declined an invitation to introduce him because she was caring for their newborn son.

“In July, my beautiful Usha gave birth to a baby boy, little Alec, just six weeks ago,” Vance said.

He said organizers approached Usha when their son was only two weeks old.

“She said, ‘Hell no! I got four kids to take care of,’” Vance said. “But she sends her love, and I know she’s watching at home.”

Vance used the family story to make a broader argument about what he called the birthright of American children.

“I’ve thought a lot, ladies and gentlemen, about what is the birthright of this newest of Americans, my little boy,” he said. “He is now our fellow citizen, though he doesn’t know it.”

He also spoke about his four-year-old daughter, Mira, asking to feed her baby brother and about his older children seeing the newborn smile.

“It’s inside of that family where I’ve seen Usha show an almost divine patience with those four kids,” he said.

Vance then turned to Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, whom he criticized over remarks about whether Vance would have taken Usha back in time to meet his late grandfather, whom he called “Papaw.”

Vance interpreted the remarks as questioning whether his white grandfather could have accepted and loved Usha, the daughter of Indian immigrants.

“Abdul looks at him, sees the color of his skin, sees his background, and decides that he could never have loved my wife,” Vance said.

The vice president said El-Sayed himself had been raised by white step-grandparents.

“They say that people with names like James Vance are incapable of loving people with names like Usha, and they couldn’t be more wrong,” he said. (IANS)