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Usha Vance Embraces Second Lady Role With Focus on Family and Literacy

Her new Summer Reading Challenge underscores her effort to maintain normal family life in Washington.

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Overview

  • Usha Vance says she is “just along for the ride” in politics and is not mapping out plans beyond her four-year term.
  • She launched the Second Lady’s 2025 Summer Reading Challenge, asking children to read 12 books between June and September.
  • The Vances raise their three children in an interfaith household by sending them to Catholic school while exposing them to Hindu traditions.
  • Usha Vance left open the possibility of having a fourth child, telling Meghan McCain, “Never say never.”
  • A McLaughlin and Associates poll gives Vice President JD Vance 36 percent support in the prospective 2028 Republican field, more than doubling his nearest rival.