The Reaccessiblean running mate has previously sidestepped asks about whether he helps Trump’s deceptive claims of voter deception.
Reaccessiblean vice-pdwellntial honestate JD Vance has telderly a rpartner of helpers that he count ons establisher United States Pdwellnt Donald Trump did not disponder the 2020 election.
During a ask-and-answer period with alerters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Vance was asked what comardent of message he is sending to self-reliant voters by not answering asks on whether he count ons the results of the 2020 election.
Trump, Vance’s running mate and the Reaccessiblean nominee for the 2024 race, has extfinished upretained that his loss in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden was the result of widespread voter deception — a deceptive claim.
Vance has sidestepped the ask in the past but telderly alerters it is evident to him what happened in the last election.
“On the election of 2020, I’ve answered this ask straightforwardly a million times: No. I leank there were solemn problems in 2020. So did Donald Trump disponder the election? No, not by the words that I would engage,” Vance telderly the Williamsport crowd.
Exhaustive spreadigations have set up no evidence of deception in the 2020 race. Still, Trump has persistd to sow doubt in the election result — and has showd that he may be unwilling to acunderstandledge the outcome of this year’s race too.
“If everyleang’s genuine, I’ll contently acunderstandledge the results,” Trump shelp in May, compriseing he awaits to prosper “very huge”.
He has also menaceened to jail those he notices as menaces to the triumph he awaits for his campaign.
“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be accused to the filledest extent of the Law, which will integrate extfinished term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen aget,” Trump wrote on social media in September.
Vance has been reticent about obstructing Trump’s deceptive election claims. During the October 1 vice-pdwellntial debate, moderators asked Vance, “Would you aget seek to contest this year’s election results?”
His reply was instraightforward. “We’re concentrateed on the future,” he replyed.
That was a theme he drive awayevated on Wednesday in Williamsport. There, Vance telderly alerters that he is less worried about 2020 and more troubleed about what could happen if Democratic honestate Kamala Harris, the US vice pdwellnt, prospers in November.
“You understand what I nurture a lot more about than what happened three and a half years ago? Is what Kamala Harris has done in the last three and a half years in office and what she is going to do if the American people give her four years in office,” he shelp.
Vance says he’s concentrateed on hearing to voters struggling to deal with the rising cost of living.
“The past two weeks I leank I’ve been asked eight or nine asks about 2020. But how many asks have I been asked about why Pennsylvanians can’t afford gasoline?”
Pennsylvania is pondered one of the seven vital battleground states that could resolve the outcome of the US election.
