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How 'spirit guide' Usha Vance steered meteoric rise of JD Vance

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JD Vance , 40 , is the third youngest vice-president-elect in American history.

His wife, Usha , 39 , has been his "spirit guide" at Yale Law School .

The pair met on the Ivy League campus, but their backgrounds could not have been more different.

Friends say she shuns the limelight in part because of her desire to shield their young children.

Charles Tyler says Usha Vance does not fit neatly into any political box.

He says she doesn't conform to the kind of ideological tribes most Americans identify with.

That will probably serve her well as US second lady, a role that has historically been removed from Washington 's partisan politics.

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