JD Vance says wife agreed to fourth child after Charlie Kirk's death

In his memoir Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, released June 16, Vice President JD Vance writes that he had long asked his wife, Usha, to have another baby. "For years I had asked Usha to have another baby, and for years she had told me she was done — especially now that public service had elevated us into the national spotlight," he wrote.

Vance recalled accompanying Erika Kirk on Air Force Two in September 2025 to escort her husband's body to Arizona for burial and said he had "never seen a person so heavy with grief." "As my wife held Charlie Kirk's widow on the first day of her terrible sorrow, Erika told Usha between sobs that she regretted having only two kids with Charlie," he wrote.

He added that the experience helped shift Usha's thinking. "But something changed for Usha, and not long after we buried my friend, she became pregnant with our fourth child, a boy.

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