Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of firebrand Ohio Senator and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, used her primetime speech at this week’s Republican National Convention not to play up her husband’s MAGA credentials—but to highlight how her own personal background differed from many of the people cheering on Trump and his movement.
Vance famously portrayed his own childhood growing up in the Midwest with a family originally from rural Kentucky in his 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.