JD Vance says Donald Trump didn’t lose 2020 election | 2024 US election news

The Republican vice president has previously dodged questions about whether he supports Trump’s false claims of election fraud.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance has told a rally of supporters that he believes former US President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.

During a question-and-answer session with reporters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Vance was asked what kind of message he was sending to independent voters by not answering questions about whether he believed in the results of the 2020 election.

Trump, Vance’s running mate and the Republican candidate in the 2024 race, has long claimed that his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 was the result of widespread voter fraud – a false claim.

Vance has avoided the question in the past, but told reporters he was clear about what happened in the last election.

“Going into the 2020 election, I answered this question directly a million times: No. I think there were serious problems in 2020. So did Donald Trump lose the election? No, not in the words I would use,” Vance told the audience in Williamsport.

Extensive investigations have found no evidence of fraud in the 2020 race. Still, Trump has continued to sow doubt about the election results — and suggested he may not be willing to accept the outcome of this year’s race either.

“If everything is honest, I happily accept the results,” Trump said in May, adding that he expected a “very big” victory.

He has also threatened to jail those he sees as a threat to the electoral victory he hopes his campaign will achieve.

“If I win, the people who cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, including lengthy prison sentences, so that this corruption of justice is not repeated,” Trump wrote on social media in September.

Vance held back when it came to contradicting Trump’s false election claims. During the vice presidential debate on October 1, moderators asked Vance, “Would you try to challenge this year’s election results again?”

His answer was indirect. “We are focused on the future,” he replied.

That was a theme he repeated Wednesday in Williamsport. There, Vance told reporters that he was less worried about 2020 and more worried about what might happen if Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the U.S. vice president, wins in November.

“You know what I care about a lot more than what happened three and a half years ago? “This is what Kamala Harris has done for the last three and a half years in office and what she will do if the American people give her four years in office,” he said.

Vance says he is focused on listening to voters struggling with the rising cost of living.

“I think I’ve been asked eight or nine questions about 2020 in the last two weeks. But how many questions have I been asked about why Pennsylvanians can’t afford gas?”

Pennsylvania is considered one of the seven crucial battleground states that could decide the outcome of the US elections.