Republican vice-presidential candidate makes baseless claim that ‘big tech rigged the election’

The Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, told a reporter on Wednesday that there were “serious problems” in the 2020 election and suggested for the first time that the then president Donald Trump did not actually lose the race.

“Did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use,” Vance said in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. “But look, I really couldn’t care less if you agree with me or disagree with me on this issue.”

He was pressed on his response by a reporter later in the day on another campaign stop in Wilmington, North Carolina, saying: “I think that big tech rigged the election in 2020. That’s my view. And if you disagree with me, that’s fine.”

The response comes in the wake of a non-response earlier this month, when during an interview with the New York Times, Vance was reportedly given five opportunities to “acknowledge that Trump did not win in 2020” and he “refused to say so”.


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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    ‘big tech rigged the election’

    Isn’t Vance fully in bed with Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, and a cavalcade of similarly minded fash-brained techbros?

    “But look, I really couldn’t care less if you agree with me or disagree with me on this issue.”

    Sipping a white russian while wearing a dirty bathrobe and insisting that election results are just, like, your opinion man.

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      Sipping a white russian while wearing a dirty bathrobe and insisting that election results are just, like, your opinion man.

      I’m sure The Dude would not abide this comparison

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        This dude most certainly does not abide.

        Like, most of the time I do.

        Just not in this particular instance.

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      ‘big tech rigged the election’

      Isn’t Vance fully in bed with Musk, Thiel, Andreessen, and a cavalcade of similarly minded fash-brained techbros?

      That’s the G and the P in GOP. They are literally trying to rig the election with the help of a bunch of billionaire tech bros, but it’s totally okay because “Democrats did it first”

      And since the last election was over 1,000 news cycles ago, nobody will question whether that’s actually what happened.