JD Vance Clashes with Interviewer, Refuses to Say 'Yes or No' When Repeatedly Asked If Trump Lost 2020 Election

When an interviewer asked JD Vance if he believes Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and pressed for a "yes or no" answer, Vance refused to comply, evading the direct question five times in under two minutes.

With the 2024 election approaching, Ohio Senator and Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance is facing scrutiny for repeatedly refusing to acknowledge whether his running mate, Donald J. Trump, lost the 2020 presidential election. In a recent interview for The New York Times, Vance dodged direct questions about the outcome, focusing instead on alleged censorship by social media companies.

Trump has continued to dispute the 2020 election results, a stance that has divided Republicans. Acknowledging Trump's loss could alienate Trump loyalists, a risk Vance has proven unwilling to take during his vice presidential campaign.

During his conversation with Lulu Garcia-Navarro for her podcast, "The Interview," Vance sidestepped multiple questions about Trump's defeat in 2020. Rather than answer directly, Vance deflected, claiming to be "focused on the future."

"There's an obsession here with focusing on 2020," he said in an evasion mirroring his performance in the vice-presidential debate. "I'm much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are unaffordable."

When Garcia-Navarro repeated her question the second time, Vance argued that social media companies limited distribution of a story about Hunter Biden's laptop prior to the 2020 election, costing him votes.

Garcia-Navarro repeated the question a third time, to which Vance shot back, "Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes?"

"I'm going to ask you again, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?" Garcia-Navarro repeated a fourth time.

"And I've answered your question with another question, you answer my question and I'll answer yours," Vance insisted.

On the fifth repetition, Garcia-Navarro added, "There is no proof, legal or otherwise, that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election." Vance told her, "You're repeating a slogan," dismissing the line of questioning to talk about what he describes as "something very discrete - a problem of censorship in this country."

Vance believes the 2020 election was affected by censorship, and went on to confirm that he would have refused to certify the 2020 election results.

The 2-minute clip is part of an hour-long interview scheduled for release Saturday.