During the interview – the full version of which is scheduled to be released on Saturday – JD Vance was asked five times by a New York Times journalist whether he believed that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. Vance avoided giving a direct answer each timeclaiming, among other things, that journalists are “obsessed” with the previous elections, while he and Trump are focused on the future.
He also said that he and Trump they drew attention to “many problems” related to the previous electionsincluding “industrial-scale censorship” by social media, which he said influenced the result. He added that this is why he would refuse to certify the election results if he were Vice President Mike Pence.
US elections. Vance says there will be a “peaceful transfer of power”
“If tech companies are censoring Americans on a massive scale, in a way that independent research suggests influences voting, then I think it's right to protest it, criticize it, and it's perfectly reasonable,” the Republican vice presidential nominee said.
His statements about censorship concerned social media limiting the spread of materials based on data from the laptop of Joe Biden's son, Hunter, due to the suspicion – as it later turned out, wrong – that they were stolen by foreign services.
During this year's campaign similar actions were taken by the owner of platform X Elon Muskwhich, according to the New York Times, censors articles based on Donald Trump's campaign materials stolen by Iranian hackers.
Although J.D. Vance assured that after this year's elections, there will be a peaceful transfer of powerhe suggested that “if there are problems,” Republicans will contest the results again.
Vance avoided answering directly. His opponent said: He is a coward
The NYT comments that Vance's answers – who did not answer a question about whether Trump lost four years ago during a debate with his Democratic counterpart Tim Walz – suggest that he still hasn't found a good way to answer this question.
Walz commented on his Republican rival's interview, suggesting that he is afraid of incurring the wrath of Donald Trumpwho still consistently believes he was the rightful winner of the election and only lost due to fraud.
“Donald Trump still refuses to admit that he lost the election, a JD Vance is too much of a coward to tell the truth“Walz wrote on the X platform.
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