US Presidential Polls: Former President Donald Trump secured the formal nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and selected a right-wing loyalist as his running mate, marking the start of a triumphant party convention.
Trump announced 39-year-old Ohio Senator J.D. Vance’s wife Usha Chilukuri Vance as his vice-presidential pick,
This event follows a failed assassination attempt on Trump last weekend.
The convention commenced at the Fiserv Forum in downtown Milwaukee, shortly after Trump narrowly avoided an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and following a significant legal win with a federal judge dismissing one of his criminal cases
Meet Donald Trump's Indian-origin running mate
- The wife of JD Vance, Usha Chilukuri Vance has been declared as Donald Trump’s running mate in the upcoming US presidential elections.
- A litigator at a national firm, Usha Vance is the daughter of Indian immigrants and has an impressive academic background.
- She holds a bachelor's degree in History from Yale University and a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.
- Born Usha Chilukuri, she has carved out a distinguished career in the legal field, having clerked for Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh before Kavanaugh's nomination to the Court.
- Raised in a suburb of San Diego, California, with a strong emphasis on education and hard work, Usha's academic achievements include serving as Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology and Executive Development Editor of The Yale Law Journal.
- After four years of intense extracurricular activity at Yale, she continued her studies as a Gates fellow at Cambridge, where she engaged with left-wing and liberal groups. She was a registered Democrat in 2014.
- Usha and JD Vance first met at Yale Law School and were married in Kentucky in 2014, with a Hindu priest presiding over a separate ceremony. The couple has three children together.
- Usha Vance has played a subtle yet significant role in her husband's success. She assisted Vance in organizing his thoughts on the social decline in rural white America, which inspired his best-selling memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which was adapted into a film directed by Ron Howard in 2020.
- In the past, she has made some rare appearances with Vance as he sought the Ohio Senate seat.
Meanwhile, Trump launched his bid to reclaim the White House in November 2022. He aims to reclaim the White House after his bitter exit in 2020, as he looks forward to becoming only the second commander-in-chief to win two non-consecutive terms in office
- With inputs from agencies
