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USHA VANCE TOLD FRIENDS TRUMP APPALLED HER. NOW SHE’S WORKING TO ELECT HIM.

The potential second lady found Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 “deeply disturbing,” a
friend said. But ambition and devotion to her husband ultimately drove her to a
place in the former president’s campaign.

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Usha Vance at the Republican National Convention on July 17. (Joel Angel Juarez
for The Washington Post)
By Peter Jamison
, 
Beth Reinhard
, 
Hannah Natanson
and 
Nicole Markus
July 27, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

During her rise through America’s most prestigious schools, law firms and
judicial clerkships, Usha Vance rarely — if ever — volunteered her opinions on
the nation’s bitterly partisan politics to friends and colleagues.


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But she did express revulsion at former president Donald Trump’s actions on Jan.
6, 2021.


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