#Vance told friends she was outraged by #Trump’s incitement of the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol & lamented the social breakdown that fueled his political support, acc/to one friend…. Her view at the time contrasts w/the later pronouncements of her husband & Trump’s newly minted running mate, #JDVance, who has downplayed the storming of the Capitol & called participants who were jailed “political prisoners.”
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“Usha found the incursion on the Capitol & #Trump’s role in it to be deeply disturbing,” the friend recalled. “She was generally appalled by Trump, from the moment of his first election.”
Speaking the morning after Usha #Vance introduced her husband at the Republican National Convention & watched his speech from the same VIP box as Trump, the friend added, “It was surreal to see her sitting next to him last night.”
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That sensation is widely shared among her friends, former co-workers and & alumni, more than two dozen of whom spoke to The Washington Post for this story. Some watched in disbelief on July 17 when Usha #Vance, 38, addressed an overwhelmingly White crowd on the convention floor that tittered uneasily as she joked about her husband learning to cook Indian food & audibly gasped when she mentioned her vegetarian diet.
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A spox for #JDVance declined to comment for this story or to say whether Usha #Vance voted for #Trump in 2020 & 2016. The spox did not dispute the friend’s description of Usha’s opinions about Trump & #Jan6. When the riot occurred, Usha Vance was working as a lawyer & her husband was several months away from launching his Senate campaign.
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Jai Chabria, a Republican strategist for #JDVance’s 2022 Senate campaign & a family friend, said Usha’s views of TFG have changed, mirroring the evolution of her husband, once a fierce #Trump critic.
“Usha has had a similar shift in views & fully supports Donald Trump & her husband & will do whatever she can to ensure their victory this November,” Chabria said in a statement provided by the Vance spox.A Trump camp spox did not comment for this story.
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…Usha Chilukuri #Vance —born to prosperous #Indian #Hindu #immigrants, raised in Southern California & employed, until she quit last wk, at a #SanFrancisco #law firm known for its self-consciously #progressive office #culture —appears to represent the sort of cultural & #economic #elite whom #Republicans rail against.…remembered for her circumspect manner & fanatically detailed scheduling habits, she is very different, temperamentally, from freewheeling #Trump & his incendiary #MAGA movement.
@Nonilex huh. Maybe they picked Vance because they thought he would be a good foil to Harris, by showing he’s able to control a woman with a superficially similar background…
That seems like exactly the sort of twisted, disgusting ‘logic’ they’d use.
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