In new interview, JD Vance dodges questions about Trump’s 2020 defeat

At the vice presidential debate last week, American Senator JD Vance had already raised questions because he had objected to Donald Trump’s confirmation of his running mate’s defeat in the 2020 election.

However, Vance has continued to ignore the situation, most recently when he was interviewed by The New York Times on a podcast.

In excerpts released on Friday, Vance ducked questions about Trump’s 2020 defeat no less than five times, according to the newspaper.

“There’s an obsession here with focusing on 2020”, Vance told the podcast, The Interview, slated to air on Saturday. “I’m much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are unaffordable”.

When asked about the election results in 2020, Vance claimed that Trump’s censorship may have resulted in millions of votes lost.

“I’m talking about something very secret,” Vance said, “I do believe there will be censorship issues in this country in 2020.”

He accused, for example, social media companies of blocking negative stories about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

The podcast’s host, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, pointed out there was “no proof” election fraud had occurred, a reality Vance brushed off as a “slogan”.

Trump himself has repeatedly claimed that the election was a fraud, but Vance’s refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of the 2020 results speaks for itself.

Trump, the incumbent at the time, lost that race to Biden, a Democrat and former vice president. Biden earned 306 Electoral College votes, out of a total of 538, earning him the presidency. Trump only managed 232 votes.

In the aftermath of the results, Trump blasted the election as “stolen”. On January 6, 2021, he held a rally in Washington, DC, to encourage his followers to “stop the steal” and demonstrate in front of the US Capitol.

The Capitol building, where the Electoral College votes were being certified by Congress, was the site of a violent outburst that thousands of people experienced.

Trump has also been accused of pressuring his then-vice president, Mike Pence, not to certify the votes, as mandated by the Constitution. On January 6, Penne oversaw the result count in a ceremonial manner.

When Pence refused to heed Trump’s call to circumvent the vote, Trump slammed his second-in-command as lacking “courage”.