Usha Vance speaks out over Democrat messaging that husband JD Vance is ‘weird’

In a sit-down interview with the broadcast outlet, Usha said that the negative press coverage of JD "can be hard" and that when she sees it has said, "Well, this is not the JD I know, this is not accurate." Usha also spoke at the RNC in Milwaukee, introducing her husband and telling the story of how they met in school. The couple has two children.

"We know what matters to us in our personal lives and our family lives. And so focusing on that helps us with the ups and downs," she added.

"I think we've been doing this now for a little while, and I've gotten kind of accustomed to it and grown a bit of a thick skin to it," Usha told reporter Ainsley Earhardt. "One really good piece of advice that someone gave me is just not to read the news that much, and it's not burying your head in the sand or anything like that. It's just JD is out there."

Earhardt asked Usha about the "childless cat-ladies" controversy surrounding Vance, who made a comment during an interview with Tucker Carlson where he said that it was odd that so many people who have no stake in the future of the nation are controlling policy. Vance encourages families and has pro-family policies.

"I took a moment to look and actually see what he had said and try to understand what the context was and all that, which is something that I really wish people would do a little bit more often. And the reality is he made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive, and it had actual meaning," Usha told Earhardt.