Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP nominee for vice president, refused five times to answer a question about whether former President Trump lost the 2020 in a new interview with The New York Times.
Vance sat down with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, the host of the outlet’s podcast “The Interview,” for a lengthy discussion about his background and the campaign.
The first time Garcia-Navarro asked directly if Trump lost the 2020 election, Vance deflected and said he was “focused on the future.”
Pressed a second time for a “yes” or “no” answer, Vance pivoted to complaining about Facebook censorship of stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020. He again raised that issue when asked a third and a fourth time, suggesting censorship cost Trump votes.
On her fifth time asking, Garcia-Navarro noted there was “no proof, legal or otherwise that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.” Vance accused her of “repeating a slogan,” and again declined to answer.
The interview marks the latest instance of the Republican ticket getting caught up in Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat in the 2020 election in the closing weeks of the 2024 race.
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Senator JD Vance repeatedly refuses to say whether former President Trump lost the 2020 election in a NYT interview https://t.co/mw1JpcOnzb
— The Hill (@thehill) October 11, 2024
Asked 5 times by @LuluGNavarro whether Trump lost the 2020 election, JD Vance declines to say yes or no. pic.twitter.com/n2Ssm7s66J
— bryan metzger (@metzgov) October 11, 2024
Excellent NYT headline and deck pic.twitter.com/4ha4mcfkb9
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) October 11, 2024
RADDATZ: I assume that if I asked you 50 times if Trump lost the 2020 election, you would not acknowledge that he did. Is that correct?
VANCE: You haven't asked about inflatio–
R: No, I'm sorry. Let's stick to this. Why won't you say this?
VANCE: Because when big tech … pic.twitter.com/CWOWJYYNmw
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 13, 2024
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