Vance, Given 5 Chances to Say Trump Lost in 2020, Takes None

The New York Times ^ | October 11, 2024 10:13 AM ET | Michael C. Bender

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Heading into the final three weeks of the 2024 election, Senator JD Vance of Ohio will still not say whether his running mate won or lost the last race for the White House.

In an interview with The New York Times that will be published on Saturday, Mr. Vance repeatedly refused to acknowledge former President Donald J. Trump’s defeat and went to even greater lengths to avoid doing so than he did during the vice-presidential debate earlier this month.

When asked about the previous election during an hourlong interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a host of “The Interview,” a Times podcast published each Saturday, the Republican vice-presidential nominee responded that he was “focused on the future.” It was the same phrase he used to evade the same question during his debate with his Democratic rival, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota.

“There’s an obsession here with focusing on 2020,” Mr. Vance said in the interview. “I’m much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are unaffordable.”

When pressed a second time, Mr. Vance pivoted to a complicated counterargument: He suggested Mr. Trump would have won more votes in 2020 had social media companies not limited posts about a New York Post story about the contents of a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son. Trump allies had maintained that documents on the laptop linked President Biden to corrupt business dealings, but those claims were unfounded.

“Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again,” Ms. Garcia-Navarro said. “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”

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Vance, Given 5 Chances to Say Trump Lost in 2020 "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength," Takes None

Fixed it.

[AndyTheBear]

The Left truly hates those that refuse to parrot their dogmas.

[rktman]

How dare he!!!!!!

[cdcdawg]

They cheated. Everybody knows they cheated. Some are still quite willing to lie about it. Just like we told them that Biden was senile, we are telling them that Kamala is stupid. We are not kidding on any of those points.

[Magnum44]

The left thinks this is some kind of gotcha. But the only ones who are buying it are the hard left base that will never vote Trump anyway.

[Revel]

And why would he say that Trump lost when he didn’t. They massively cheated and those who really pay attention know it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good for JD! He is sharp and won't be baited.

This cracked me up: "Mr. Vance pivoted to a complicated counterargument: He suggested Mr. Trump would have won more votes in 2020 had social media companies not limited posts about a New York Post story about the contents of a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden"

COMPLICATED? Coordinated cheating by the Dems, the academy, Hollywood, big tech moguls, MSM, and social media companies to bury key information was hardly a "complicated counterargument."

And JD only touched on one element of that filthy viper's nest.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m waiting for the November results to come in, for Trump to win, and for everyone in the media to say “Harris didn’t lose”. I just don’t think they will accept it at all.

[Frank Drebin]

[daler]

“They cheated. Everybody knows they cheated.”

Which is why they keep bringing it up.

If they really believed it was a legitimate election, they’d laugh off any claims to the contrary.

[Paladin2]

Trump did lose in 2020.

Not that it wasn’t stolen.

[gundog]

I still wonder why SCOTUS declined to hear the case where half the States said the actions in the swing States disenfranchised their voters.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Why should he..even IF the votes were legit, you still had the laptop which was proven true, EVERYONE knew it was true..and the commie media and Biden LIED knowing the laptop was Hunters, and many people said after the election if they had known the laptop was real, they would NOT have voted for biden, so that alone proves the election was fraudulent..and by the way, the same leftists who scream about 2020, are the ones who deny Trump won in 2016, deny Bush won in 2004 and deny Bush won in 2000

[Williams]

Ask Hillary if she lost, and was Trump a legitimate president.
Cause I heard her say he wasn’t.

Also recall she didn’t face her supporters on election night, then showed up wearing purple at a bizarre “funeral” ceremony. Then started saying “Trump knows he’s illegitimate. “

Democrats are scum.

[Chode]

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[Ge0ffrey]

The NY Times has had more than a thousand days to say that Donald Trump didn’t collude with Russia to win the election, but they won’t!

[kiryandil]

"J.D. Vance refuses to say that there was no famine in The Ukraine in 1930–1933, per the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of Walter Duranty of the New York Times."

Same players, same game, different century.

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Or return the Pulitzer Prize they received for their documented lies about RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION RUSSIA COLLUSION.

[roving]

It’s not that hard to say it was stolen. Just say it.

[butterdezillion]

I’m allergic to lies, so I couldn’t even handle the brief excerpt where NYT lied about Biden’s shady business deals.

They just can’t help it. They lie. Just like blueberry bushes produce blueberries. The Slimes produces nothing but lies.