Vance refuses to say Trump lost 2020 poll, Walz talks abortions

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has refused to acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 elections, as he evaded a direct reply on whether the former president would seek to challenge this year’s election results even if these were certified in every state. Senator Vance of Ohio came face to face with his Democratic rival Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday in the only vice-presidential debate of this election cycle.

In reference to the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Vance did not give a clear answer when asked if Trump would again challenge election results this year even if every governor certifies the results.

“Look, what President Trump has said is that there were problems in 2020, and my own belief is that we should fight about those issues, debate those issues peacefully in the public square,” Vance said.

During the debate, Walz questioned Vance about Trump losing the 2020 election.

“Did he (Trump) lose the 2020 election?” Walz asked.

“Tim, I’m focused on the future,” Vance was quoted as saying in the report.

Calling it a “non-answer”, Walz said, “I’m pretty shocked by this. He lost the election. This is not a debate, it’s not anything anywhere other than in Donald Trump’s world.” On the issue of abortion, Walz was asked by the moderators to respond to an assertion from Trump that he supports abortion in the ninth month. “In Minnesota, what we did was restore Roe v Wade,” Walz said. “We made sure that we put women in charge of their healthcare.”

Meanwhile, Vance said Republicans needed to “do so much better of a job at earning the American people’s trust back on this issue”.