What's the deal with Usha Vance?

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Support our nonprofit journalism]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     August 2, 2024 Since Donald Trump announced JD Vance as his running mate, my colleagues have done an incredible job reporting out the Ohio senator's atrocious views that include calling Democrats a "[childless cabal](" and supporting [abortion criminalization](. Taken together, Vance makes for one deeply alienating personality, the kind of character that makes you physically uncomfortable, if not downright ill. But I was especially irritated this morning seeing Vance defend Trump's racist questioning of Kamala Harris as a Black woman. [Here's what he told CNN](: "She is everything to everybody, and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of. I think it’s totally reasonable for the president to call that out, and that’s all he did." Except, no. As we wrote at the time, Trump, a [white man, was telling Black journalists that his Black opponent was not Black](. This is textbook racism. Vance's defense of his ticket-mate is further despicable as it comes from a father to three biracial kids. Now, Vance's kids might be too young to understand how awful their father is. But how does Usha Vance tolerate any of this? Well, considering her husband's [equally despicable response]( to the white supremacist attacks against her, perhaps tolerance is the wrong way to look at this. [It probably has a lot more to do with prestige](—and what some are willing to do to get it. Feeling nauseous? I'm sorry. Feel better with these [childless lady cat memes](. —Inae Oh Advertisement [House Donations Ad]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Childless Adults and Stepparents Have Some Thoughts on JD Vance]( The GOP pick for VP has repeatedly criticized women without biological children as "childless cat ladies." Now, they're pouncing on him. BY ABBY VESOULIS MOTHER JONES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE   DONALD TRUMP & DEMOCRACY You’re a Mother Jones Daily reader, so you know the stakes and you know reporting like ours matters so freaking much in these next few months (and beyond). About that: We need [the support of our newsletter readers like never before]( to vigorously fight back against the existential threats American democracy and journalism face. We’re running behind our targets and urgently need all hands on deck. We can’t afford to come up short—we have no cushion; we leave it all on the field. Please help with a donation if you can—even just a few bucks helps. A [monthly gift]( would be incredible. [Donate]( [Trending] ["Those people should just die": Trump's nephew on how the ex-president sees disabled Americans]( TEXT BY JULIA MÉTRAUX, VIDEO BY SAM VAN PYKEREN   [The fraught election to determine who will call the shots on deep-sea mining]( BY KAREN MCVEIGH   [JD Vance attacked AOC for promoting a “sociopathic attitude” about children]( BY DAVID CORN   Advertisement [House Subscriptions Ad]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [Taffy Brodesser-Akner on the power of bearing witness]( Her sophomore novel interrogates money's role in life's cascading traumas—and whether one ever really escapes their family. BY INAE OH Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755