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Lauren Gambino

Usha Vance: husband’s pick as Trump running mate came ‘like a bolt of lightning’

a woman looks ahead
Usha Vance attends Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in March. Photograph: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images

Usha Vance learned her husband, JD, had been selected to be Donald Trump’s running mate “maybe five minutes” before the news was made public – and just about an hour before he was formally nominated.

“It really was like a bolt of lightning,” Vance said during an interview on Meghan McCain’s podcast, Citizen McCain. Nearly a year later, seated in the vice-president’s residence on the grounds of the US naval observatory, Vance reflected on how significantly her life has changed in ways big and small. “People call you ma’am,” she said. “No one’s ever called me ma’am before this.”

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