00:00Vice President J.D. Vance is facing backlash after he told a Turning Point USA crowd that he hoped for his wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, to convert to Christianity.
00:12Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah.
00:19Those comments caused a stir online as the vice president responded to a question about his interfaith marriage.
00:25He later added that if she does not convert, it is the free will of God and does not create problems for him.
00:32Now, that did not comfort social media users.
00:34In one post, the news editor of India-based News 18 wrote on X that Vance is, quote, treating his wife's faith like a political liability.
00:44The vice president, who spoke at the event at the University of Mississippi Wednesday, defended his comments Friday.
00:49He said that he was answering a question and noted that Usha does not have plans to convert.
00:55He added, quote, my wife, as I said at the TPUSA, is the most amazing blessing I have in my life.
01:02My attitude is you figure this stuff out as a family and you trust in God to have a plan and you try to follow it as best as you can.
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