JD Vance Discusses 2020 Election Controversies

JD Vance was on Bill Maher and Bill Maher asked him about the 2020 election basically saying if

you run in 28 and you lose are you going to claim election fraud you guys have to stop doing that.

I haven't watched this clip yet so we're going to watch it together I want to hear

what JD Vance's response is. Can't run again and he'd be a little too exciting for me anyway

so it's either going to be you or Rubio. Here's my deal breaker for your side okay okay under Trump

you guys have two outcomes in an election can be either we win or they cheated that shit has to

stop and the person who has to stop it would be you.

or Marco.

Can you tell me you will do that?

Will you bring us back to the middle, at least on that,

where we concede elections,

where it's not either one of those two options?

Okay, Bill, so this is where I'm probably going to lose you here,

but here's...

That happened about eight minutes ago.

Look, I don't think that we should not concede elections,

but I don't think that's what's going on.

I think that if you go back,

if you go back to the president's core argument,

he was making an argument about problems that existed in 2020.

And here's the problem that I'm most focused on.

The president and I have talked a lot about this,

and I think we share a perspective here,

but set to the side the stuff that really gets you and your audience very angry

about whether the count was legitimate in Georgia or Pennsylvania

or any of these other states.

Is it true...

that large technology companies, some of whom have financial interests that exist outside the United States of America,

were they censoring information in the run-up to an election?

And set to the side, again, the Georgia stuff, but is it...

That was litigated. Dominion. The Fox News paid us.

I'm trying to make the more middle ground argument here.

The biggest criticism I had of the 2020 election is that you had technology companies

that were quite literally censoring negative information about the left

and promoting negative information about the right.

So in a fundamental sense, like if the First Amendment says that we have a free and open debate

and then the American people judge based on that free and open debate,

the sense in which I think the election in 2020 was rigged, I'm sorry,

is that you had technology companies that were putting their thumb on the scale

in a way that completely obliterated the real open exchange of ideas.

Now, by the way, it didn't happen in 2024, but it happened in 2020 and it was a problem.

Wow, okay, well, that's not what I was expecting at all, and it does sort of feel like he backed

off completely of a lot of the things that have really kind of never been resolved from

2020, including mail-in ballots, drop boxes, voting machines, everything with COVID, so

much that happened during the 2020 election, and yes, of course, technology companies were

censoring information and manipulating algorithms and search results, absolutely no doubt about

it, but if that is what we're leading with now, that feels like a major concession almost

at this point, that we're just backing off the real issues of fraud in the 2020 election

and ongoing issues with our elections.

I mean, we can't just blame election losses on social media algorithms, that's a factor,

but it's definitely not the most important factor, and I don't really like that answer

from JD Vance, gotta be honest.