JD Vance and Tim Walz face off in vice presidential debate: Latest updates

Earlier this year, Vance said he would have allowed Republicans in Congress to steal the 2020 election for Trump.

But when asked about Trump’s attempted steal on Tuesday — Norah O’Donnell asked whether Vance would challenge another Trump loss this year — Vance dodged the question entirely.

Here’s what Vance told ABC News in February (emphasis added): “If I had been vice president, I would have told the states like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others that we needed multiple voter rolls and I think the US Congress should have fought it out from there.”

Crucially, this was precisely Trump’s plan: sow doubt about Joe Biden’s legitimate victory, create fraudulent “alternative” electoral rolls – many of whom were later criminally prosecuted – and then pressure Congress to overturn the election results in favor of To distort Trump.

But on Tuesday, Vance changed the subject when asked about Jan. 6, when he talked about online censorship. He answered the question only cursorily, saying, “What President Trump has said is that there are issues in 2020, and my own belief is that we need to fight about those issues, debate those issues, peacefully in the public square, and that’s all. I said it and that’s all Donald Trump said.”

This document details both Vance’s own statements and Trump’s months-long attempt to cultivate a mob to overturn the results of a legitimate election.