US vice-president announces to 10,000 attenders of Turning Point USA that he prefers wife, who is Hindu, to be Christian

JD Vance is doubling down on comments he made about wanting his wife, Usha Vance, to convert to Christianity – remarks that drew political backlash from some quarters.

At an event with Turning Point USA at the University of Mississippi to honor the conservative group’s slain founder Charlie Kirk, an audience member questioned the US vice-president about how he sees the links between American patriotism and Christianity.

“Why are we making Christianity one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys? To show that I love America just as much as you do?” the audience member asked, after pointing out that Vance’s wife, Usha, is Hindu and they are raising their children in an interfaith marriage.

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    She knew who she was marrying so I feel nothing for her. But I feel so bad for those poor kids, they will grow up in the center of this racist facist shit storm.

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      Did she? I mean turning from anti-trump to full blown maga is a pretty hard 180 degree turn. If my partner were to do something like that, I wouldn’t think I’d know them anymore.

      Then again, you might be right, and she knowingly married an opportunist without any morals or principles. And then such a turn is just another wednesday.

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        People like this don’t suddenly become this way, he’s probably always been an opportunist willing to sink to any level to get what he wants and the only thing she might be surprised by is the anti Indian hate that is causing problems for her now, I guess she assumed the hate would remain focused on Mexicans, blacks etc.

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    This isn’t newsworthy. I’m not a fan of Vance at all, but his comments here aren’t even bad. If you read the article, the comments boil down to: “I believe this, I wish she did too, it’s fine if she never does, I love her regardless.” It’s honestly pretty healthy to be able to have that in a relationship.

    This is practically at the level of criticizing Obama’s tan suit, and is just noise and distraction in a news cycle filled with actually bad things (multiple wars, the government shutdown, measles outbreaks, a hurricane, etc). Don’t spread this nonsense. It’s fodder for the other side to call people out for being focused on ridiculous, unfounded slights, and allows them to not pay attention to real issues. Make noise about things that matter.

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    Never trust a man with grey beard and completely brown hair. Especially one that always looks like he’s staring into the sun.

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    Its so dumb that not one dumbass reporter has asked “if christianity is so important to these people how come they’re only deporting groups of people who are more christian on average than the US population?”

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    I would say how awful for the wife to have to go through that but we know she’s big ol’ conservative asshole too. Leopards eats faces there lady and nothing else there so I guess we’ll see how much more of her soul she’s willing to sell for power with old couch fucker.

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      It’s being Republican that’s the problem, not being conservative. Liberalism is quite conservative.

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    Why are we making X one of the major things that you have to have in common to be one of you guys?

    That’s a fascinating question.

    It’s like the core goal is… being part of the ‘tribe’? I thought that was more of an implicit feeling, but is that the explicit mindset of the Turning Point audience?

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    I don’t know for sure that Vance is going to fuck Kirk’s wife, but if he does he was 100% thinking about it at this point