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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Arwa Mahdawi

Usha Vance is a closed book – but her Goodreads account is surprisingly revealing

Usha Vance smiles and applauds while speaking at a podium microphone
A real page-turner … Usha Vance, at the Republican National Convention, 2024. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Usha Vance, a very clever woman with dubious taste in men, likes to keep herself busy. While lesser mortals (me) waste their one wild and precious life watching Love Is Blind, the second lady has various self-improvement projects on the go. She’s brushing up on her German! She’s hosting a literacy podcast! She’s rereading the classics! And, of course, she’s juggling four young children and the demands of being the vice-president’s spouse.

How does she do it all? With the help of taxpayer dollars, I suspect. Easier to get some reading done when you’re being helicoptered everywhere and, as JD Vance has boasted: “People go to the grocery store for me.”

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