JD Vance was asked five times if Trump lost the 2020 election. He refused to answer

With the 2024 presidential election just three weeks away, Donald Trump’s running mate has repeatedly refused to answer whether he thinks the former president lost the last race.

He asked JD Vance five times The New York Times in two minutes whether he thinks Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, but refused to admit his loss.

When asked about the election results in an hour-long interview with The TimesLulu Garcia-Navarro posted Friday, Vance said he was “focused on the future,” echoing a response to a similar question posed during his debate against Democratic challenger Tim Walz.

“There’s an obsession here to focus on 2020,” Vance told Garcia-Navarro. “I’m much more concerned about what happened after 2020, which is a very open border, groceries that are not affordable.”

When pressed a second time, Vance suggested that Trump would have won if social media companies didn’t “censor” politically damaging stories, even though there was no evidence that restrictions on the content of a laptop belonging to the son of President Biden, Hunter altered the result.

Asked again, he said he would answer her question with a question of his own.

He then dismissed Garcia-Navarro’s correct claim that there is no evidence of widespread fraud or corruption that altered the 2020 results as a “slogan.”

“I’m not concerned with this slogan that people throw around: ‘Well, all the court cases went that way,'” he said. things in 2020.”

He also said The Times which would not have certified the 2020 results.

In the Vance-Walz debate, the Ohio Republican senator twice refused to answer whether Trump lost in 2020, an evasion that Walz called a “reprehensible non-answer.”

Democrats have pointed to his remarks as evidence that the potential vice president could allow Trump’s anti-Democrat impulses and do what former Vice President Mike Pence refused to do when he rebutted Trump’s attempts to illegally block the certification of the results of the 2020 elections.

Walz called his opponent a “coward” for refusing to concede Trump’s loss.

In his interview with The TimesVance said he would “commit to a peaceful transfer of power” in 2024, but made sure he and Trump would accept the outcome, if they lose.

He said they would “respect the results” but echoed conditions Trump has repeatedly stated throughout his 2024 campaign.

“If there are problems, of course, just as the Democrats protested in 2004 and Donald Trump raised problems in 2020, we will make sure this election counts,” he said. “Make every legal vote count. We’ve filed nearly a hundred lawsuits with the (Republican National Committee) to try to make sure every legal vote is counted.”

Right-wing legal groups across the country have launched legal battles to challenge mail-in voting rules and voter eligibility, underscoring how far the former president’s allies will go, down to the local level, to dispute the results of an election that he could lose.

Vance “has proven five times over that he will always put Donald Trump’s dangerous election conspiracy theories ahead of our Constitution and the rule of law,” according to Democratic National Committee rapid response director Alex Floyd.

“Even Vance knows Trump lost 2020 by more than 7 million votes, but protecting Trump’s attempts to subvert the will of the American people is more important to Vance than protecting our democracy,” he said in a statement. The Times interview