The other woman, Usha Vance, says she is not expected to agree with her husband JD Vance on all issues.

Second lady Usha Vance spoke openly about her disagreements with Vice President JD Vance and said that she was never expected to always be on the same page with the VP. “I’m not their employee. I’m not involved in any business sense.” …There’s no expectation that we’ll see eye to eye on everything,” Vance said in an interview with NBC News. Usha Vance was known as a registered Democrat until at least 2014 and voted for Republicans when JD ran for the Senate. She said that she does not feel any pressure to conform to any political views.“The hope is that we will be open-minded and have a conversation, and I will provide meaningful input from the perspective of someone who loves him and wants him to succeed. So even if we don’t agree, it’s – I think it’s always very productive.“There are conversations all the time,” Usha Vance said. “I really like to understand what’s going on in his world, what he’s really focused on, what concerns he has, because it’s a marriage. I mean, I want to support him, and I can’t do that if I don’t really know what’s going on.”Usha said the VP has a full staff of policy advisers, but he turns to Usha when something is bothering him, “when he really wants to talk about something that feels more personal, highly personal or important.”

‘I was myself, I am myself’

Usha said that even when she was a Democrat, she was herself and even today she is herself. Vance said, “I feel very comfortable in that no one has asked me to engage in any kind of litmus test on anything. And I’ve found that I was myself in 2014. I can be myself today. And I feel very comfortable in that world.”

Will JD run for President in 2028?

Usha Vance said that the Vice President’s focus is now on the mid-terms. Usha Vance said, “JD’s focus right now is on the midterm elections, on all the things that are happening right now, which are obviously extremely important. And so if you come back in 2027 and ask me, I’ll have a better sense of what he’s thinking along the way. But that’s not a priority in our conversation.”