Speaking during a Sunday, August 11 interview with Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. JD Vance, the 2024 running mate of former President Donald Trump, fired back at the attacks made on his wife, Usha Vance, characterizing them as racist nonsense from people she is more attractive than.

That began with Karl asking him, “So, there’s been a lot of talk about racism and whatnot. You faced some really nasty stuff. I saw this thing that Nick Fuentes – of course, he’s an avowed white supremacist – he said, ‘What kind of a man marries somebody named Usha? Clearly, he doesn’t value his racial identity, his heritage.’ I mean this is racist garbage.”

Vance, responding, said, “Yes, it is.” Karl then added, “But this is also a guy that dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago during this campaign.” Vance told him, defending Trump, “Well, and Donald Trump doesn’t know anything about and frankly doesn’t care for. But, yes, look, my – my attitude to these people attacking my wife is—she’s beautiful, she’s smart. What kind of man marries Usha? A very smart man and a very lucky man, importantly.”

Continuing, as Karl told him, “Yes. Yes,” Vance said that attacks on his policies are fine, but that people shouldn’t attack his wife. He said, “And – and my view is, look, if these guys want to attack me or attack my views, my policy views, my personality, come after me, but don’t attack my wife. She’s out of your league.”