Exit Kamala Harris, enter Usha Chilukuri Vance

The exit of Kamala Harris from the Vice President’s house in Washington DC in January will see the entry of another Indian American— Usha Chilukuri Vance, the “absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife” of JD Vance as Donald Trump hailed his running mate’s spouse.

Taking a victory lap in Florida early Wednesday, the former President US gave a special shoutout to Ohio senator Vance and his Indian origin wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance.

“I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say, Vice-President-elect of the United States JD Vance, and his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance,” said Trump.

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“And he is a feisty guy, isn’t he? He and I have said, go into the enemy camp, and, you know, the enemy camp is certain networks and a lot of people don’t like to, sir, do I have to do that? He just goes, OK, which ones, CNN, MSDNC, he’ll say, all right, thank you very much, he actually looks like, he’s like the only guy I’ve ever seen, he really looks forward to it. And then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them.”

“Thank you, President Trump, for the trust that you placed in me,” Vance, 40, set to be the youngest US Vice President, said in response amid applause and chants of ‘JD, JD’.

Born to Indian immigrant parents in 1986 in San Diego and raised in an upper-middle-class suburb, Usha Vance, 38, has an impressive academic background and works as a corporate litigator at a prestigious firm in San Francisco. She holds a bachelor’s degree in History from Yale University and a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge.

Usha Vance’s distinguished career includes clerking for Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh before Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. She also served as the Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology and Executive Development Editor of The Yale Law Journal.

Before entering the legal field, Usha engaged in four years of intense extracurricular activity at Yale after which she continued her studies as a Gates fellow in Cambridge University.

She met JD Vance at the Yale Law School, where the Ohio Senator got a scholarship, and the couple married in Kentucky in 2014 and were blessed by a Hindu priest in a separate ceremony. They have three children – Ewan, 6, Vivek, 4, and Mirabel, 2.

Usha Vance played an important role in her husband’s rise to national fame – organizing his ideas about the social decline in rural White America that formed the basis of his 2016 bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy.”

“I’m not raring to change anything about our lives right now, but I believe in JD, and I really love him, and so we’ll just sort of see what happens with our life,” she said in an interview about her husband running for the second highest office in the United States. Interestingly, Usha Vance was a registered Democrat in 2014.

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In an interview with Fox News, Usha Vance spoke about the two living together while having different faiths. “I grew up in a religious household. My parents are Hindu, and that was one of the things that made them such good parents, that makes them really very good people. And so I think I’ve seen that…the power of that in my own life, and I knew that JD was searching for something. This just felt right for him,” she said.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris did not speak as election night turned into Wednesday morning as supporters gathered for what was supposed to be a celebration at her alma mater, Howard University, ABC News reported.

Harris will address the nation later Wednesday, her campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond votes told a thinning crowd gathered at her watch party at Howard University after midnight.

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Photos show partygoers leaving and Harris supporters crying as results continued to come in that showed her falling behind in key states. The mood at Howard University had dampened after the evening started out with music pumping and crowds dancing.

As the night wore on, muted crowds watched with eyes glued to screens showing the results. The crowd cheered anytime races were called for Harris and booed whenever states were called for Trump, ABC News reported.