Usha Vance: I Don't 'See Eye to Eye' With JD on Everything

JD Vance is heading back to bookstore shelves, this time with a faith-focused sequel of sorts to Hillbilly Elegy. The vice president will release Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith on June 16, a memoir he describes as charting his return to Christianity after losing his belief earlier in life, reports the Guardian. "The story of how I regained my faith, of course, only happened because I had lost it to begin with," Vance said in a statement, per the AP. "The interesting question that hangs over this book, and over my mind, is why I ever strayed from the path. Why the Christian faith of my youth failed to properly take root."

Publisher HarperCollins calls the tome a "spiritual exploration" spanning different stages of Vance's life and says it lays out how his Catholicism now shapes both his public work and his view of the country's future, per the Guardian. Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019 at age 35, has increasingly leaned on religious arguments to defend his stances on abortion, family policy, and even immigration, invoking the concept of ordo amoris, or an "order of love," to justify prioritizing American citizens over migrants.

That framing has drawn pushback from Vatican voices, including criticism shared by a then-future Pope Leo XIV and a letter from Pope Francis emphasizing a Christian love "open to all, without exception." The memoir lands as Vance tops early conservative polls for the 2028 Republican nomination, joining a familiar pre-campaign tradition: would-be contenders releasing books, as Democrats Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Andy Beshear, and Josh Shapiro have also done.

Meanwhile, second lady Usha Vance says in a new interview that she and her spouse don't "see eye to eye on everything," and that she can "be myself" in her new role in MAGA world, despite once being a registered Democrat, per People. "I don't feel like I have to walk around pretending anything of any sort," she told NBC News. "Sometimes I have thoughts that fit very comfortably into one side or another. Sometimes I have views that are way more idiosyncratic."