Vance Defends Remarks on Hoping Wife Converts

Vice President JD Vance defended his comments about hoping his Hindu wife, Usha Vance, converts to Christianity, calling criticism of his remarks “anti-Christian bigotry.”

Speaking Wednesday at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi honoring slain conservative leader Charlie Kirk, The Washington Post reported that Vance discussed his interfaith marriage and how the couple raises their three children.

Asked why Christianity seemed tied to patriotism among conservatives, he said both he and his wife were nonreligious when they met but agreed to raise their children as Christians.

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