J D Vance will make a great Vice President, says his Indian-American wife Usha

"He will make a great Vice President of the United States," she said, minutes before Vance accepted the Republican Party's nomination as its vice president candidate in the November 5 general election.

Introducing Vance, a junior United States senator from Ohio to their fellow Americans, Usha described the love and affection of her husband.

Usha, the mother of three children, said she met Vance at Yale University.

"We were friends first," Usha, whose parents hailed from Andhra Pradesh, said.

"He was then, as now, the most interesting person I knew a working-class guy who had overcome childhood traumas that I could barely fathom to end up at Yale Law School, a tough marine who had served in Iraq, but whose idea of a good time was playing with puppies and watching the movie Babe. When she was asked to introduce her husband to thousands of Republican delegates from across the country, Usha said she was at a loss.

"I was at a loss. It occurred to me that there was only one thing to do: to explain, from the heart, why I love and admire J.D., why I stand here beside him today, and why he will make a great Vice President of the United States," she said.

In her address, Usha mentioned her background. She said she grew up in San Diego, in a middle-class community to parents who emigrated from India.

Usha said J D Vance approached their differences with curiosity and enthusiasm.

He wanted to know everything about where I came from, what my life has been like. "Although he's a meat and potatoes kind of guy, he adapted to my vegetarian diet and learned to cook food for my mother. "My background is very different from JD's. I grew up in San Diego in a middle-class community with two loving parents both immigrants from India and a wonderful sister," she said.