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Vance again refuses to say Trump lost the 2020 election

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Vance again refuses to say Trump lost the 2020 election

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Ohio Sen. JD Vance again refused to say whether his presidential running mate, former President Donald Trump, lost the 2020 election to ABC News Sunday morning, continuing Vance’s avoidance of the question, despite the fact that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in Trump’s 2020 loss.

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ABC News’ Martha Raddatz asked Vance on “This Week” if he would admit that Trump lost the 2020 election if she “asked him 50 times,” to which Vance said that he and Trump “believe that there were problems in 2020,” and then they pivoted. , saying, “You didn’t ask about inflation.”

Vance said he wanted to “focus on the fact that we had big tech companies censoring our fellow citizens in a way that violated our fundamental rights,” likely referring to allegations that Trump’s performance in 2020 was affected by the content moderation decisions of some social media platforms. .

Vance has regularly dodged the question of whether the 2020 election was rigged, something Trump has continued to say, despite no evidence, since early October, when Minnesota Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz asking him to address it on the debate stage and called Vance’s refusal “a damning non-answer”.

Vance also refused to say that Trump lost the election at a Saturday night campaign event in Pennsylvania, where he said: “I think the 2020 election had serious problems … You want to call it a call. Call it what you want, it wasn’t right.”

Vance’s refusal to answer was also highlighted earlier Saturday when The New York Times published an interview in which he was asked directly five times whether Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to answer each time. rather than saying they are “future-focused” and asking “big tech” questions.

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Crucial appointment

“I have said repeatedly that I think the election had problems. You mean call You mean he won? Use whatever vocabulary term you want,” Vance told ABC’s Raddatz on Sunday when asked, “Did Donald Trump lose?

Main critic

Kentucky Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear also appeared on “This Week” Sunday and criticized Vance’s refusal to say Trump lost the election. Beshear said there was “no lie too big for Donald Trump and JD Vance,” adding “when you ask (Vance)

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Trump has continued to falsely claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him by voter fraud. The claims have been countered by a series of investigations, studies and comments from public officials on both sides of the political aisle who have said the election was safe and there was no widespread fraudulent voting. An Associated Press investigation of all voter fraud claims in the six key states President Joe Biden won found only 475 potential cases, which it said was not enough to have made a difference in the result of the elections. More than 50 lawsuits challenging the results were dismissed at the state and federal level, Reuters reported, and the Brennan Center for Justice released a “comprehensive investigation” showing that “voter impersonation is virtually non-existent” and fraud is “very rare”. The former president and some of his political allies face criminal trials for their involvement at the state or federal level in the attempt to overturn the election results.

Additional reading

ForbesWhy Trump’s Jan. 6 trial won’t happen before Election Day as judge grants delayFor Alison Durkee
ABC News“This Week” Transcript 10-24-13: Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance and Gov. Andy BeshearNytimesA conversation with JD Vance

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