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JD Vance Condemns Racist Attacks on Wife Usha, Says Ethnic Hatred Has No Place in Politics
US Vice President JD Vance has strongly denounced racist slurs targeting his Indian-origin wife, Usha Vance, calling out far-right voices and stressing that ethnic hatred has no place in American politics or conservatism.
US Vice President J D Vance has sharply criticised commentators for making racist and derogatory remarks against his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, asserting that attacks based on ethnicity are unacceptable in public life.
Vance was responding to comments by far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes, who used a racial slur while referring to Usha Vance and described the Vice President as a “race traitor” during a livestream.
“Let me be clear: anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat shit. That’s my official policy as vice president of the United States,” Vance said during an interview with UnHerd over the weekend.
He added that judging individuals on the basis of their ethnic background was deeply offensive. “My attitude towards anybody who calls for judging people based on their ethnic heritage — whether they’re Jewish, white or anything else — is simple: it’s disgusting. We shouldn’t be doing it,” he said.
Vance further stressed that such views have no place within conservative politics. “Anti-Semitism and all forms of ethnic hatred are unacceptable in the conservative movement. Whether someone is attacked for being white, black or Jewish, it’s equally reprehensible,” he said.
Fuentes, in his livestream, had made multiple derogatory remarks, using a racial slur for Indians while referring to Usha Vance and making offensive comments about the Vance family.
Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy, who contested the 2024 presidential election and is now running for Ohio governor in 2026, publicly condemned Fuentes’ remarks. “If you publicly call Usha Vance a ‘jeet,’ you have no place in the conservative movement, period,” Ramaswamy said, warning against the normalisation of what he described as “un-American animus”.
Vance also criticised former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, now a host on MSNBC, for remarks she made about his wife on air. Psaki had suggested that Usha Vance might be under political pressure, comments Vance described as inappropriate and offensive.
JD Vance and Usha Vance met while studying at Yale Law School and have three children — Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel.
Usha Vance is a practising litigator and has previously clerked for US Supreme Court Chief Justice John G Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, when he served on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Her parents, Krish Chilukuri and Lakshmi Chilukuri, emigrated from India to the United States in the late 1970s. Krish Chilukuri is a lecturer in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at San Diego State University, while Lakshmi Chilukuri is a teaching professor in molecular biology and Provost of Sixth College at the University of California, San Diego.
