Sen. JD Vance, the running mate of former president Donald Trump, repeatedly declined to acknowledge in a new interview that Trump lost the 2020 election, an issue that has dogged the Ohio Republican in the closing weeks of the presidential race.<\/p>\n
In the interview with the New York Times, Vance was given five opportunities to acknowledge that Trump did not win in 2020, according to the Times. He refused to say so, insisting that he is \u201cfocused on the future\u201d and criticizing an \u201cobsession here with focusing on 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n
The conversation with Vance was taped for \u201cThe Interview,\u201d a Times podcast that comes out every Saturday.<\/p>\n
As the host, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, pressed Vance on the 2020 election, he countered with his own question, asking her whether \u201cbig technology companies\u201d censored information that could have swayed the outcome. He was referring to a decision by Twitter that temporarily blocked users from sharing a story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve answered your question with another question,\u201d Vance said at one point. \u201cYou answer my question, and I\u2019ll answer yours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s refusal to admit his reelection defeat has returned to the political spotlight in recent weeks. Vance declined to say Trump lost during his Oct. 1 debate with the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tim Walz. The Minnesota governor said onstage that Vance delivered a \u201cdamning non-answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Democratic National Committee pounced Friday on the excerpt of the Times interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith five more dodges, JD Vance has proven five more times that he will always put Donald Trump\u2019s dangerous election conspiracy theories ahead of our Constitution and the rule of law,\u201d Alex Floyd, a DNC spokesman, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In the Times interview, Vance also said he \u201cwould have voted against certification\u201d in 2020, suggesting he would have joined the eight GOP senators and 139 House members who voted to object to the results in certain states. The Senate vote took place in January 2021, two years before Vance arrived in the chamber.<\/p>\n
Vance has said before that if he were vice president after the 2020 election, he would have asked states to provide \u201cmultiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there.\u201d The Constitution gives the states the power to pick their electors, and the vice president has no role in their selection.<\/p>\n
Former vice president Mike Pence refused to bow to Trump\u2019s pressure to block certification of his reelection loss, leading to a rupture in their relationship. Pence is not supporting Trump\u2019s comeback campaign, and Trump said in a podcast interview released Wednesday that Pence \u201ccouldn\u2019t cross the line of doing what was right.\u201d<\/p>\n
The presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris invoked Pence on Friday as it responded to Vance\u2019s new interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cDonald Trump chose JD Vance to be his running mate for one reason and one reason only: He will do what Mike Pence wouldn\u2019t and put Donald Trump over our Constitution,\u201d Harris campaign spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Trump remains under federal indictment for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A court filing unsealed last week provided explosive new details that portrayed Trump as indifferent while his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n
Harris has elevated the issue in her campaign with less than a month left in the race. She campaigned in Wisconsin last week with Liz Cheney, the former GOP congresswoman who voted to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 attack and later helped lead a House committee that investigated it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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