Vice President JD Vance has disclosed that the killing of his close friend and political ally Charlie Kirk was the reason his wife, Usha Vance, changed her mind about having a fourth child. The revelation came in a book excerpt published by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, in which Vance described Kirk as his 'best friend' in politics.
In the excerpt, Vance wrote that Usha had firmly told him she was 'done' having children, in part because of the heightened public scrutiny that came with their roles in national politics. That position shifted in the weeks following Kirk's death. 'Not long after we buried my friend, she became pregnant with our fourth child, a boy,' Vance wrote.
