Vice President JD Vance said he hopes his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, converts from Hinduism to Christianity.

Vance made the remark while speaking Wednesday night at a Turning Point USA event where he and Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point co-founder Charlie Kirk, spoke to students at the University of Mississippi.

“I’ve told her and I’ll say publicly and I’ll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends: Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in, by church? Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that because I believe in the Christian gospel,” Vance told the crowd. “And I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way. But if she doesn’t, then God says everybody has free will and so that doesn’t cause a problem for me.”

Vance said he and

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