Fox & Friends Dig Into JD Vance’s ‘Dorky Interests’ After Wife Spills on His Passion for Magic The Gathering Card Game

Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt said that Usha Vance “hesitated” during their interview when asked to spill on her husband Senator JD Vance’s (R-OH) “dorky habits” before revealing that the lawmaker was a long-time player of fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering .

Clips from Earhardt’s interview with Usha Vance aired on Monday morning in which she also defended her husband’s past “cat lady comments” that have stirred controversy.

During the Republican National Convention in July, Vance was announced as former President Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election. Since then both Democrats and the Harris campaign have pushed an online effort to label Vance and Trump’s campaign as “weird” due to his conservative views.

Speaking about the interview, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy said to Earhardt: “I want him to explain what the dorky habits he has are, did she explain?”

Earhardt replied: “She hesitated. I asked: ‘What are the dorky interests that he has?’ And she hesitated and said: ‘He’s going to kill me for saying this, it’s Magic: That Gathering , which was a card game. And some of the guys on set know about it. It’s similar to Pokemon , that’s so popular now. And his boys are into Pokemon.”

Vance recounted on the Full Send podcast that when Trump called him to offer the role as his running mate, the lawmaker’s seven-year-old son was trying to talk to him about the Pokemon character Pikachu. Vance told his son: “Shut the hell up for 30 seconds about Pikachu. This is the most important phone call of my life. Please just let me take this phone call.’”

The revelation that Vance is still into Magic: The Gathering is a new one, but he was open about the fact that he had played the game as a kid in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy .

In the book he wrote : “I could never tell my dad that I played a nerdy collectible card game called Magic, because I feared he’d think the cards were satanic – after all, kids at the church youth group often spoke of Magic and its evil influence on young Christians.”

The cards also featured briefly in the film .

Watch above on Fox & Friends .