Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance refused to admit that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. vice presidential debate Tuesday and reduced its severity Attack on the US Capitol on January 6More than 140 security guards were injured.
He also declined to say whether he would challenge the results of this year’s election.
Near the end of the debate, Democratic vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Waltz asked Sen. Vance of Ohio to confirm that Trump had lost the last election.
“Did he lose the 2020 election?” Waltz asked.
“Tim, I’m focused on the future,” Vance replied before addressing Walz about censorship on social media.
“It’s a damning irresponsibility,” Walz said. “I’m pretty shocked by that. He lost the election. It’s not a debate, it’s nowhere but in Donald Trump’s world.”
Walz noted that former Vice President Mike Pence, the target of “Hang Mike Pence” chants by pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol in 2021, was not on the debate stage because he refused to annul the election. On behalf of Trump.
Trump faces federal criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as alleged by a federal grand jury.unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and constantly changing” special prosecutor Jack Smith claims he knew he was lying. Trump has pleaded not guilty, but some Trump supporters connected to the attack have confessed. I feel like gullible “idiots”. Because he believed Trump’s lies, Trump continued to openly repeat his lies about the election. Trump again gave up last month to admit loss.
Walz said it was important to be “honest” about what happened on Jan. 6 and that Americans should not engage in “revisionist history” about the attack.
“America, I think you have a clear choice in this election about who will respect this democracy and who will respect Donald Trump,” Walz said Tuesday.
“This must be stopped. This is dividing our country,” he said.
“I don’t think we can be the frog in the pot and let the boiling water rise to the top,” Walz continued. “Sometimes you really want to win, but democracy is bigger than winning an election.”
Asked by one of the debate moderators whether he would challenge the results of this fall’s election, even if the results were confirmed in every state, Vance said he wanted to talk about the future first. He then added, “Look, what President Trump said is that there were problems in 2020, and my own belief is that we need to fight about these issues, we need to discuss these issues peacefully in the public square. That’s all I’m saying. .and that’s all Donald Trump said.”
Vance also said Trump asked “protesters” to go to the Capitol “peacefully” in a Jan. 6 speech, and that Trump “left the White House” on Jan. 20, 2021, the day President Joe Biden is inaugurated.
When Walz asked him to admit that Trump lost the election, Vance said he wanted to talk about the future again, but then returned to the 2016 election, comparing Trump’s fraudulent election claims to Democrats protesting Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. The actual claims of the Russia-based campaign to boost Trump in that election on social media.
Vice President Kamala Harris “wants to censor people who are dealing with misinformation,” Vance said, adding that it’s “a bigger threat to democracy than anything we’ve seen in the last four years, the last 40 years.”
Walz said that while the candidates agreed on some issues Tuesday night, “we’re miles apart” on Jan. 6. to say – he still says that he did not lose the election.”
Trump’s fans, who believed Trump’s lies, went to the Capitol area with armed men on January 6 firearms, stun guns, flagpoles, fire extinguishers, bike racks, batonsa metal whip, office furniture, pepper spray, bear spraya tomahawk axea axea hockey stick, glovesa baseball bata massive “Trump” billboard, “Trump” flagsa fork, pieces of wood, armrests and even an explosive device.
Nearly 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the attack, and federal prosecutors have secured more than 1,000 convictions, along with federal prison terms ranging from a few days to 22 years for the Proud Boy leader, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump gave a big boost to the Proud Boys during the 2020 debates by telling them to “stand back and stand aside,” and federal prosecutors said they wanted members of the group.Donald Trump’s army.”