WATCH: Usha Chilukuri Vance speaks at 2024 Republican National Convention

Usha Vance, JD Vance’s wife and political unknown, arrived on the RNC stage for her prime-time debut.

Watch Usha Vance’s remarks in the player above.

“When I was asked to introduce my husband JD Vance to all of you, I was at a loss,” she said. “What can I say that hasn’t already been said. I mean the man was a subject of a Ron Howard movie.”

Usha Vance laid out the stark differences between how she and her husband grew up. The senator is from a low-income Appalachian family and she came from a middle-class immigrant home in San Diego. “When JD met me, he approached our differences with curiosity and enthusiasm,” she said.

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