Republican vice-presidential candidate makes baseless claim that ‘big tech rigged the election’

The Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, told a reporter on Wednesday that there were “serious problems” in the 2020 election and suggested for the first time that the then president Donald Trump did not actually lose the race.

“Did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use,” Vance said in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. “But look, I really couldn’t care less if you agree with me or disagree with me on this issue.”

He was pressed on his response by a reporter later in the day on another campaign stop in Wilmington, North Carolina, saying: “I think that big tech rigged the election in 2020. That’s my view. And if you disagree with me, that’s fine.”

The response comes in the wake of a non-response earlier this month, when during an interview with the New York Times, Vance was reportedly given five opportunities to “acknowledge that Trump did not win in 2020” and he “refused to say so”.


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  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    16 days ago

    No one ever asks them why all the Republicans accepted their own election results and swore in. If the election was so bad, why would you accept winning but claim a lower on the same ballot did not? You should step aside instead.

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      16 days ago

      I think this is too much of a complex thought for them. They’d be lost in the first few words anyway, trying to drown you out with a mountain of shit so as not to have to listen to you.