7 Times JD Vance refused to admit Trump lost in 2020—this month

Back when he was just a venture capitalist who had managed to rise from the ruins of Appalachia, JD Vance publicly accepted that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. Then Vance decided to run for Senate—and his tune quickly changed. 

Since winning that Ohio Senate seat and being tapped as Trump’s running mate, Vance has been forced to backtrack on calling Trump “America’s Hitler.” Now he’s frantically trying to sidestep his way out of answering a fundamental question: Did Trump lose the 2020 election? President Joe Biden’s victory has been proven numerous times in court decisions across the country, but Vance won’t acknowledge it. 

Vance’s “damning nonanswer” during the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate drew swift criticism from veterans and many political pundits. His refusal to admit that the United States has free and fair elections is not only dangerous, but disqualifying.

Yet the Republican vice presidential nominee keeps dodging the question at every opportunity. Here are seven times he did just that in the past 11 days.