“Oh by the way, if I did I am not gonna admit it in front of my wife. It’s one of those questions where if you got to that point in your life that you are such a dishonest person and have a secret family in Alaska, I think they would hide it. But no, I don’t have a secret family in Alaska,” Vance said laughing adding that they ask all these weird questions to prepare for the media firestorm.
‘Shut the hell up for 30 seconds..I have the most important phone call of my life’
JD detailed how he got to know that he has been named as VP pick by Trump. Because of the ongoing vetting process, he knew he was one of the candidates Trump was shortlisting but the moment it was decided, he was on a plane to Milwaukee without Wi-Fi and on landing, he saw 350 messages.
At the hotel room, when he finally got the opportunity to speak to Trump, Trump said, “JD, you missed a very important phone call and now I’m gonna have to pick somebody else.” JD said his son at that time was talking continuously about Pikachu. “I told him, son shut hell up for 30 seconds… I have the most important phone call of my life…” Vance said adding that Trump overheard the conversation and asked him to put the phone of the speaker so that his son could hear the news. “Trump read the statement and asked my son, ‘What do you think about that?’ and he said it’s pretty cool…and then my whole life changed,” JD said.
JD is married to Indian-origin lawyer Usha Vance. They met at Yale Law school. The couple have three children. On Usha, JD said she doesn’t like politics and doesn’t seek spotlight but people have been so supportive of the entire thing that she’s also into it now.
