JD Vance Flips The Script In Heated Interview With NewYork Times Reporter
During a recent interview with The New York Times, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance challenged the media’s narrative on the 2020 election, raising significant concerns about the role of big tech censorship in influencing the outcome.
During a recent interview with The New York Times, Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance challenged the media’s narrative on the 2020 election, raising significant concerns about the role of big tech censorship in influencing the outcome.
In a tense exchange with NYT interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Vance repeatedly deflected questions about whether former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election by highlighting the impact of the Hunter Biden laptop story’s suppression.
Garcia-Navarro asked Vance directly, “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” Instead of answering, Vance flipped the question, asking, “Is it okay that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analysis have said cost Donald Trump millions of votes?”
Vance’s response referred to Facebook and Twitter’s controversial decision to block the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 election.
Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have admitted that intelligence officials pressured them to suppress the story.
This censorship, according to various polls, could have swayed millions of votes away from Trump.
One such poll from the Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics indicated that nearly four in five Americans believe that truthful reporting of the story would have led to a Trump victory.
Garcia-Navarro continued to press Vance on the 2020 election, asking again, “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”
Vance responded by doubling down on the issue of censorship: “Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes? I think that’s the question.”
The exchange grew more heated as Garcia-Navarro asked for a third time if Trump had lost in 2020.
Vance maintained his stance, replying, “I’ve answered your question with another question. You answer my question, and I’ll answer yours.”
Vance made it clear that his concern wasn’t over court rulings or media slogans about the 2020 election results.
Instead, he emphasized the issue of large-scale censorship, backed by the federal government, which he believes deeply affected the election’s outcome and, in his view, led to the current Harris administration’s governance.
“I’m not worried about this slogan that people throw, ‘Well, every court case went this way.’ I’m talking about something very discreet—a problem of censorship in this country that I do think affected things in 2020 and, more importantly, that led to Kamala Harris’s governance, which has screwed this country up in a big way,” Vance stated.
When asked if he would have certified the 2020 election results, Vance didn’t shy away from answering, saying, “I’ve said that I would have voted against certification because of the concern that I just raised.”
Vance also addressed whether the Trump-Vance campaign would commit to a peaceful transfer of power in 2024.
He reaffirmed their commitment but expressed confidence that Donald Trump would win the election.
“Well, first of all, of course, we commit to a peaceful transfer of power. We are going to have peaceful transfer of power. I, of course, believe that peaceful transfer of power is going to make Donald Trump the next president of the United States. But if there are problems… we’re going to make sure that this election counts, that every legal ballot is counted,” Vance said.
Vance concluded by discussing the nearly 100 lawsuits filed by the RNC to protect election integrity, saying it’s a crucial effort to ensure every legal vote is counted and to maintain confidence in the election process.
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