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The Ohio senator repeated the response he used during his debate
against Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate,
saying he was “focused on the future.”
“There’s an obsession here with focusing on 2020,” Vance said in
the interview. “I’m much more worried about what happened after
2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are
unaffordable.”
Vance's refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the 2020 election
echoes the rhetoric pushed by his running mate. Trump has been
charged criminally with knowingly pushing false claims of voter
fraud and having “resorted to crimes” in his failed bid to cling
to power after losing to Biden. Judges, election officials,
cybersecurity experts and Trump’s own attorney general have all
rejected his claims of mass voter fraud.
Vance spoke for an hour with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, the host of
the newspaper's “The Interview” podcast, which will publish on
Saturday. He offered an evasive response each time she asked if
Trump lost the last election.
He blamed social media companies for limiting posts about the
contents of a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden, the president's
son, asking if censorship by tech firms cost Trump millions of
votes.
"I’ve answered your question with another question,” Vance said.
“You answer my question and I’ll answer yours.”
When Garcia-Navarro said there was “no proof, legal or
otherwise,” of election fraud, Vance dismissed the fact as “a
slogan.”
“I’m not worried about this slogan that people throw, ‘Well,
every court case went this way,’” Vance said. “I’m talking about
something very discrete — a problem of censorship in this
country that I do think affected things in 2020.”
Vance's refusal to say whether Trump was widely considered his
weakest moment of the debate against Walz, Minnesota's governor,
who called Vance's response “a damning non-answer.” Vice
President Kamala Harris ' campaign quickly turned the exchange
into a television ad.
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