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The second lady will also be joined by Rachel Campos-Duffy, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s wife.

Wife of J. D. Vance Usha Vance speaks during the third day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024.
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U.S. second lady Usha Vance will be leading a presidential delegation to Turin, Italy, for the opening of the Special Olympics, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. The delegation will be attending the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics World Winter Games on March 7. Alongside Vance, Rachel Campos-Duffy, the wife of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and a Fox host, will also be attending. Other members of the delegation include: Douglass Benning, U.S. consul general in Milan; Boris Epshteyn, a senior counsel and adviser to the president, Richard Walters, a partner at FGS Global; Riley Barnes, the senior bureau official of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; T.H. Trent Michael Morse, the deputy assistant to the president; and Shawn Crowley, chargé d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Rome. According to its website, the Special Olympics is a “global sports movement to end discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities.” The second lady joined her husband, Vice President JD Vance, on his recent trip to Europe in February as well.

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