The Reaccessiblean running mate has previously sidestepped asks about whether he helps Trump’s counterfeit claims of voter deception.
Reaccessiblean vice-plivential truthfulate JD Vance has telderly a rpartner of helpers that he consents createer United States Plivent Donald Trump did not dissee the 2020 election.
During a ask-and-answer period with alerters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, Vance was asked what benevolent of message he is sfinishing to self-reliant voters by not answering asks on whether he consents the results of the 2020 election.
Trump, Vance’s running mate and the Reaccessiblean nominee for the 2024 race, has lengthened upgrasped that his loss in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden was the result of widespread voter deception — a counterfeit 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 skinnyk there were solemn problems in 2020. So did Donald Trump dissee the election? No, not by the words that I would engage,” Vance telderly the Williamsport crowd.
Exhaustive spendigations have set up no evidence of deception in the 2020 race. Still, Trump has progressd to sow doubt in the election result — and has recommendd that he may be unwilling to acunderstandledge the outcome of this year’s race too.
“If everyskinnyg’s truthful, I’ll phiredly acunderstandledge the results,” Trump shelp in May, inserting he foresees to thrive “very huge”.
He has also dangerened to incarcerate those he notices as dangers to the triumph he foresees for his campaign.
“WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be sued to the brimmingest extent of the Law, which will integrate lengthened term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen aacquire,” Trump wrote on social media in September.
Vance has been reticent about declineing Trump’s counterfeit election claims. During the October 1 vice-plivential talk about, moderators asked Vance, “Would you aacquire seek to dispute this year’s election results?”
His react was instraightforward. “We’re intensifyed on the future,” he reacted.
That was a theme he repascendd on Wednesday in Williamsport. There, Vance telderly alerters that he is less worried about 2020 and more worryed about what could happen if Democratic truthfulate Kamala Harris, the US vice plivent, thrives in November.
“You understand what I join 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 intensifyed on hearing to voters struggling to deal with the rising cost of living.
“The past two weeks I skinnyk 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 beginant battleground states that could determine the outcome of the US election.