The reason J.D. Vance has a chance to become vice-president of the United States is that, unlike Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate on his two previous campaigns, he’s willing to repeat Trump’s false claim to have won the 2020 election. His support for the Big Lie is the essential act that has thrust him into his upward trajectory.

The question has followed Vance in the final weeks of the election after he refused to answer it in the vice-presidential debate.

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance refused five times to say if he believes former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election during part of an hour-long interview with The New York Times.

In an interview with The New York Times, Senator JD Vance repeatedly refused to acknowledge Donald J. Trump’s defeat and said he would not have certified the 2020 results.

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), the GOP nominee for vice president, refused five times to answer a question about whether former President Trump lost the 2020 in a new interview with The New York Times. Vance sat down with Lulu Garcia-Navarro,

Vance said he would not have certified the 2020 election results and refused to say that Trump lost in an interview with The New York Times.

JD Vance was asked 5 times if Trump lost the 2020 election. He refused to answer - Trump’s running mate dismisses the lack of evidence supporting election denialism as a ‘slogan’ in new interview

The Australian’s Washington correspondent Adam Creighton has regarded Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance as a “polished” version of former president Donald Trump.