JD Vance refused five times to acknowledge Donald Trump lost 2020 election, in podcast interview
LA TimesVice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance again refused to acknowledge that former President Trump lost the 2020 election, evading the question five times in a New York Times interview, the newspaper reported. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, again refused to acknowledge that President Biden won the 2020 election over former President Trump, evading 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’s an obsession here with focusing on 2020,” Vance said in the interview. “I’m talking about something very discrete — a problem of censorship in this country that I do think affected things in 2020.” Vance’s refusal to say whether Trump lost was widely considered his weakest moment of the debate against Walz, Minnesota’s governor, who called Vance’s response “a damning nonanswer.” Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign quickly turned the exchange into a television ad.