JD Vance Claims Trump Won 2020 Election, Won't Say He'll Concede A Loss

After refusing to answer questions about it on the debate stage Tuesday night, JD Vance falsely claimed Thursday that Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and refused to say if he’ll accept a loss.

Trump’s running mate, who has propped up the GOP presidential nominee’s election conspiracy theories in the past, continued to do so when Jason Selvig of The Good Liars — a political comedy duo — asked if he believes Trump’s repeatedly disproven claims that President Joe Biden stole the election from him.

“Did Donald Trump win the 2020 election?” Selvig asked Vance.

“Yes,” Vance replied. When Selvig repeated the question, Vance gave an affirmative “yep.”

Selvig then asked Vance whether he’ll concede if Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ nominee for president, gets more votes than the Trump campaign. Vance refused to answer.

“I really feel bad for you, man,” Vance said to Selvig after he repeated the question.

Vance has been facing pressure to address where he stands on Trump’s election conspiracy theories since his recent debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz. On stage, Walz asked Vance if he still believes Trump was the true victor of the 2020 election, alluding to comments Vance made earlier this year questioning the election results and saying Trump should ignore “illegitimate” U.S. Supreme Court rulings on the matter.

“Tim, I’m focused on the future,” Vance replied before pivoting to an attack on Harris.

When Donald Trump was told by a White House aide that his own vice president, Mike Pence, had to be evacuated from the Senate on Jan. 6, 2021, for his own safety following an inflammatory tweet from Trump, the former president had but a two-word response: “So what?” The anecdote was among hundreds of pieces of evidence gathered by federal prosecutors into a 165-page court filing, unsealed Wednesday, in their four-count felony prosecution against Trump for his actions leading up to and during his coup attempt.

Trump said on Wednesday that he would revoke the legal status of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, and deport them from the U.S. if he wins reelection in November. Trump and Vance have spread racist lies about members of that Ohio immigrant community, claiming that they are stealing and eating peoples’ pets, despite pleas from local officials for them to stop circulating the falsehoods.

Texas officials are seeking to reverse the gender marker changes that trans people have already legally obtained on their driver’s licenses and state IDs, according to a letter that the head of the state’s Department of Public Safety sent to the Texas attorney general. Transgender Texans used to be able to change their names and gender markers on state documents by filing a petition to a judge for a court order.

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