Watch JD Vance refuse to concede Trump lost five times in 2020

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance said he would not have certified the 2020 election results and repeatedly refused to acknowledge Donald Trump’s loss during an interview The New York Times previewed on Friday.

Vance told The interview Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro said he was instead “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.”

But Garcia-Navarro didn’t let him off the hook. “Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again,” she said. “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”

Instead of giving a yes-or-no answer, Vance talked about censorship, baselessly claiming that “big tech companies” had censored stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop — which Vance said cost Trump “millions of votes.”

When Garcia-Navarro stressed that there was “no legal or other evidence” of voter fraud, Vance refused to answer her 2020 election question for a fifth time. He added that he is “not worried about this slogan that people are throwing.” [around].”

He continued: “I’m talking about something very discrete – a censorship issue in this country that I believe has influenced things in 2020.”

Vance is full NYT The interview is scheduled to be published on Saturday, but his non-responses are nothing new. During his Oct. 1 debate against Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ running mate, he was again pressed to affirm Trump’s 2020 election loss.

“Tim, I’m focused on the future,” he told Walz, adding: “Did Kamala Harris stop Americans from expressing their opinions in the wake of the 2020 COVID situation?”

Walz called Vance’s response “a damn non-answer” and pointed out that Trump dumped his last vice president, Mike Pence, because he was certifying the 2020 election results.

However, Vance told NYT that he had not certified the 2020 election results, but added that he would “commit to a peaceful transfer of power” in 2024.

“Of course, if there are issues, like Democrats protested in 2004 and Donald Trump raised issues in 2020, we will make this election count,” Vance said.

But with voters casting their ballots in less than 25 days — and Harris leading in crucial polls — Vance’s non-responses could all be a dress rehearsal for Election Day.