JD Vance really doesn’t want to talk about Trump’s 2020 election lies

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance still doesn’t want to talk about Donald Trump’s baseless claims that he was the real winner of the 2020 presidential election.

In a video clip released Friday from an upcoming podcast episode with The New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Vance refused five times to say whether he supports Trump’s conspiracy theory about that year’s vote, all and that the former Republican president continues to defend the claim. while campaigning to take back the White House.

The first time Garcia-Navarro asked Vance, he said he wanted to move on from the subject, a line of reference for him lately.

“Donald Trump and I have raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, but we’re focused on the future. I think there’s an obsession here to focus on 2020. I’m much more concerned about what happened after 2020 ” he said, and proceeded to list the talking points of the campaign.

Garcia-Navarro asked Vance the same question a second, third and fourth time. Vance responded in a variety of ways, but never answered the question directly. At one point, he tried to steer the conversation to President Joe Biden’s son and his laptop. In another, he claimed that tech companies acted to “censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes.”

The fifth time Garcia-Navarro got Vance to respond, she became frustrated with him.

“I’ve asked that question repeatedly,” he reminded her. “It’s something that is very important to the American people. There is no evidence, legal or otherwise, that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.”

Vance later accused her of “repeating a slogan instead of committing to what I’m saying” and suggested she didn’t care if multiple courts ruled against Trump’s campaign claims.

“I’m concerned about Americans who feel there were problems in 2020,” he said. “I’m not worried about the slogan people throw around: ‘Well, every court case went down that road.'”

Finally, he said he would have voted against certifying the results of the last presidential election.

The full episode of Garcia-Navarro’s podcast, “The Interview,” is scheduled to premiere Saturday.