{"id":37693,"date":"2025-04-02T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/is-usha-vance-starting-to-feel-a-little-sorry-for-herself-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:16:06","slug":"is-usha-vance-starting-to-feel-a-little-sorry-for-herself-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/is-usha-vance-starting-to-feel-a-little-sorry-for-herself-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Usha Vance starting to feel a little sorry for herself? | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She left her job when her husband got a shot at VP \u2013 only for the couple to be met with the frostiest of receptions in Greenland at the weekend<\/p>\n<p>There are a few people to blame for the fact that JD Vance, a staggeringly unlikable man with a supremely meme-able face, has been thrust into such prominence. The first is Peter Thiel: the tech billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/jd-vance-trump-vp-pick-silicon-valley\">who bankrolled<\/a> Vance\u2019s political pivot. The second is Kevin D Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation and mastermind of Project 2025, who has been an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/01\/us\/politics\/jd-vance-project-2025.html\">energetic Vance advocate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the third is Usha Chilukuri Vance, JD\u2019s wife. While Usha kept a low profile during the Trump-Vance campaign, trailing after her other half with a smile on her face and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/usha-vance-iliad-emily-wilson?srsltid=AfmBOooaIJ5Nj2FeIFOdxMXiqJlqxLik6nx8tWL0HJJ9M5flK1-ycZgn\">a copy of The Iliad<\/a> in her hand, JD has made her influence clear. In his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, for example, he wrote that Usha helped him navigate Yale and \u201calways encouraged me to seek opportunities that I didn\u2019t know existed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/02\/is-usha-vance-starting-to-feel-a-little-sorry-for-herself\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She left her job when her husband got a shot at VP \u2013 only for the couple to be met with the frostiest of receptions in Greenland at the weekend There are a few people to blame for the fact that JD Vance, a staggeringly unlikable man with a supremely meme-able face, has been thrust &#8230; <a title=\"Is Usha Vance starting to feel a little sorry for herself? | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/is-usha-vance-starting-to-feel-a-little-sorry-for-herself-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Is Usha Vance starting to feel a little sorry for herself? | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}