United States Vice President JD Vance has strongly condemned racial abuse directed at his wife, Usha Vance, saying there is no place for any “forms of ethnic hatred” in American politics.
While sitting for an exclusive interview with UnHerd, Vance addressed racist remarks made by far-right podcaster Nick Fuentes.
“Let me be clear. Anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s**t,” Vance said. He added that this was his “official policy” as the Vice-President of the United States.
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Fuentes has previously made multiple racist remarks about Usha and the couple’s children because of their Indian ethnicity, according to ABC News. This controversy reignited after Fuentes recently used a racial slur against Usha.
“If you call Usha Vance, the second lady of the United States of America, a 'je*t,' you have no place in the future of the conservative movement,” Vivek Ramaswamy, speaking at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, said.
Vance dismisses Nick Fuentes' influence in conservative movement
Vance, however, downplayed, saying, “I think that Nick Fuentes, his influence within Donald Trump’s administration, and within a whole host of institutions on the Right, is vastly overstated,” while alluding to the government led by Donald Trump.
He further suggested that Fuentes’ perceived influence was amplified by “people who want to avoid having a foreign-policy conversation about America’s relationship with Israel.”
“Antisemitism, and all forms of ethnic hatred, have no place in the conservative movement,” he told UnHerd, calling attacks based on race or religion “disgusting”.
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Vance has previously faced criticism over remarks about faith, after expressing hope that his Hindu wife might one day embrace Christianity. “Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I honestly do with that,” he had said. He later clarified that Usha had no plans to convert and that he would “continue to love and support her.”
