JD Vance Defends His Alarming Debate Answer About The 2020 Election Results

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance is defending his refusal to say if his 2024 running mate, Donald Trump, lost the 2020 presidential election, despite Democrat Joe Biden’s decisive victory that year.

“The media is obsessed with talking about the election of four years ago,” Vance said at a Wednesday campaign event in Auburn Hills, Michigan, after a reporter asked why he’d dodged a question on the issue at a vice presidential debate Tuesday.

“I’m focused on the election of 33 days from now because I want to throw Kamala Harris out of office and get back to commonsense economic policies,” he added, referring to the incumbent vice president and Democratic presidential nominee. Vance then gestured to a harmful and false conspiracy theory about a widespread “election integrity” issue related to noncitizens voting illegally.

Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, had asked Vance at Tuesday’s debate if he believed Trump lost the 2020 election, which the former president and many of his supporters still deny.

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