In a recent podcast interview with senior New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro, J.D. Vance seamlessly navigated a series of combative questions that read more like an inquisition than a journalist seeking answers on behalf of the American people.
She questioned him repeatedly about who he believed won the 2020 election, in what many viewers believed was an attempt to force him into a lose-lose situation, either painting him as an “election denier” and “insurrection sympathizer” or contradicting his running mate in addition to validating the media’s narrative.
She asked him, “Do you believe he lost the 2020 election?”
Vance responded, “I think that Donald Trump and I have both raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, but we’re focused on the future. I think there’s an obsession here with focusing on 2020. I’m much more worried about what happened after 2020, which is a wide-open border, groceries that are unaffordable, and look—”
She cut him off, “Senator, yes or no: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election,” Garcia-Navarro pressed.
“Let me ask you a question. Is it OK that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analysts have said cost Trump millions of votes?” Vance said.
“Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”
Vance replied, “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.”
Garcia-Navarro pressed him further for an answer. “I have asked this question repeatedly. It is something that is very important for the American people to know. There is no proof, legal or otherwise, that Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election.”
Vance didn’t take the bait. “But you’re repeating a slogan rather than engaging with what I’m saying, which is that when our own technology firms engage in industrial-scale censorship — by the way, backed up by the federal government — in a way that independent studies suggest affect the votes. I’m worried about Americans who feel like there were problems in 2020. I’m not worried about this slogan that people throw: Well, every court case went this way. I’m talking about something very discrete, 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.”
The Daily Caller reports:
Twitter blocked the New York Post from accessing its account and suspended other accounts, including the personal account of then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, claiming that an October 2020 report by the Post on the contents of a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden in a repair shop violated its “hacked materials” policy. The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reported in July 2023 that the FBI knew Hunter Biden’s laptop was not part of a Russian “hack and leak” operation.
Despite repeated attempts to trip him up, Vance remained calm, cool and collected and at certain points managed to trip of his interviewer, stunning her to silence.
