US Vice President JD Vance (L) looks on next to his wife, Second Lady of the United States Usha Vance, at the Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2025.

Vice President JD Vance received major backlash after telling a crowd of young conservative college students Thursday he hopes “eventually” his Hindu wife, second lady Usha Vance, is “moved” by the same thing that drew him to his Christian faith.

“As I’ve told her and I’ve said publicly and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she [Usha] is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah,” Vance admitted at a Turning Point USA-sponsored event at the University of Mississippi.

“I honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way, but if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me,” he continued.

The vice president’s remarks were in response to a multi-part question about immigration raised by a guest, asking, in part, “How are you teaching your kids not to keep your religion ahead of their mother’s religion?”

The guest also raised concerns over the relationship between MAGA

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