Usha Vance is opening up about the personal conversation that played a role in her and Vice President JD Vance‘s decision to expand their family.
During the Sunday (June 14) episode of CBS Sunday Morning, Usha and JD discussed how a conversation with Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, influenced their journey toward welcoming a fourth child.
The topic first came up in excerpts from JD‘s upcoming book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, in which he reflected on the aftermath of Charlie’s death and the impact it had on those closest to him.
“I think it really heightened JD‘s sense that he’d been talking about this for a while, this sense that there was this possibility of having another kid whom he could love as much as the three that we had,” Usha said, speaking to Erika‘s perspective, which JD said includes regret over “having only two kids with Charlie.”
She continued, speaking to her husband, “It really did crystallize for you, that sense that if you could have that other child, then you would have nothing to regret. And if we couldn’t have that other child, then we were very happy with the children that we had.”
That said, Usha also clarified that she was already starting to consider having another child, so Erika was not the “decisive factor. But it came in the middle of a conversation that we were already having.”
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