Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Mississippi, Vance was asked by an audience member about his marriage to Usha Vance, America’s first Second Lady of Hindu faith.

The government shutdown impacts the aviation industry as air traffic controllers work without pay, prompting a White House meeting with airline leaders ahead of holiday season.

Vance took questions from the audience at Turning Point USA's event at the University of Mississippi, with students grilling him on issues like immigration and religion.

Vice President JD Vance has hit back at critics who accused him of throwing his wife’s Hindu religion “under a bus” by declaring he wanted her to convert to Christianity. The 40-year-old Catholic convert was accused of hypocrisy and “Hindu-phobia” this week after telling a Turning Point USA forum that he hoped Second Lady Usha Vance would switch from her religious beliefs to his.

At the University of Mississippi, the vice president will walk a tightrope as he engages college students in the mode of Charlie Kirk.

He did so alongside the widowed wife of Kirk, Erika Kirk, as a part of Turning Point USA’s “This Is The Turning Point” tour, which is an extension of the “American Comeback Tour” and has included known conservatives like Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee and Gov. Spencer Cox, Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy and Rob Schneider.

Earlier this month, voter registration records revealed that Jack Posobiec, Turning Point USA host and MAGA conspiracy theorist who has loudly spread the false claims of voter fraud, had been voting in swing-state Pennsylvania while living in Maryland for nearly a decade.