US Vice President JD Vance has defended remarks about his wife’s Hindu background after saying he hopes she will one day convert to Christianity.
Speaking at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi, Vance told students that while his wife Usha “did not grow up Christian”, the couple had agreed to raise their three children in the Catholic faith.
“Our two oldest kids go to Christian school. Our eight-year-old did his first communion about a year ago,” he said. “Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church? Yes. But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me.”
