JD Vance refused to acknowledge Donald Trump’s lost 2020 election five times in a podcast interview

NEW YORK – Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance once again refused to acknowledge that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election over former President Donald Trump, dodging the question five times in an interview with The New York Times, the newspaper reported Friday .

The Ohio senator repeated the response he used during his debate against Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, saying he was “focused on the future.”

“There is an obsession here to focus on 2020,” Vance said in the interview. “I’m much more worried about what happened after 2020: a wide-open border and food that is unaffordable.”

Vance’s refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the 2020 election echoes his vice president’s rhetoric. Trump was criminally charged with knowingly spreading false claims of voter fraud and “resorting to crime” in his failed attempt to stay in power after losing to Biden. Judges, election officials, cybersecurity experts and Trump’s own attorney general have all rejected his claims of mass voter fraud.

Vance spoke for an hour with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, host of the newspaper’s “The Interview” podcast, which debuts Saturday. Every time she asked whether Trump lost the last election, he answered evasively.

He accused social media companies of restricting posts about the contents of a laptop that once belonged to Hunter Biden, the president’s son, and questioned whether censorship by tech companies had cost Trump millions of votes.

“I answered your question with another question,” Vance said. “You answer my question and I’ll answer yours.”

When Garcia-Navarro said there was “no evidence, legal or otherwise,” of voter fraud, Vance dismissed the fact as “a slogan.”

“I’m not worried about the slogan that people throw out: ‘Well, every trial went like this,'” Vance said. “I’m talking about something very discrete – a censorship issue in this country that I believe influenced things in 2020.”

Vance’s refusal to say whether Trump was widely seen as his weakest moment in the debate against Minnesota Gov. Walz, who called Vance’s response “a damn non-answer.” Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign quickly turned the exchange into a television ad.

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