Vice President JD Vance was less than two minutes into a speech in Jaipur, India this week, when he had a question for one of his most trusted advisers. He had just visited the Akshardham Temple, he said,

Usha Vance, the spouse of U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, became a national star during the couple's visit to India, her parents' country of origin, according to the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal.

JD Vance joked of wife Usha during a speech, “She’s a bit of a celebrity, it turns out, in India. I think more so than her husband.”