Usha Vance, the wife of JD Vance, made her debut on the RNC stage while introducing her husband. JD Vance accepted the Republican Party's nomination for the Vice President of United States at the Republican National Convention. With a kiss to his wife, Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance walked on to the stage at Fiserv Forum to a country western tune. Earlier, Usha Vance laid out the stark differences between how she and her husband grew up. The senator is from a low-income Appalachian family and she came from a middle-class immigrant home in San Diego.