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Reminder<\/em><\/a>: No matter what Vance says, Project 2025 is an \u201cundeniably Trump-driven operation\u201d with deep ties to the Trump-Vance ticket.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance is an extreme election denier who won\u2019t commit to accepting this November\u2019s election results, said he would not have certified the 2020 election, and continues to whitewash the violent January 6 insurrection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HuffPost<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] said he would accept a Biden win only if he considered the election to be legitimate. \u2026 Vance\u2019s comments illustrate a new tactic by Republican lawmakers, who are now placing conditions on accepting election results.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Says He Would Accept the Election Results, With a Caveat\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spectrum News<\/a>: \u201cVance again says he wouldn\u2019t have certified 2020 election<\/strong> if he was vice president\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Calacanis, All-In Podcast<\/a>: \u201cWould you have certified the [last result of the election]?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance: \u201cAgain, I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors <\/strong>and let the country have the debate about what actually matters and what kind of an election that we have.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calacanis: \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t have certified, to be clear?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance: \u201cI would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors, that\u2019s what I would have done.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC News<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance says [he] wouldn\u2019t have certified 2020 race until states submitted pro-Trump electors\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think the entire post-2020 thing would have gone a lot better if there had actually been an effort to provide alternative slates of electors<\/strong>, and to force us to have that debate. I think it would\u2019ve been a much better thing for the country. \u2026 [Trump] was trying to take a constitutional process to its natural conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it would\u2019ve been extraordinarily disappointing to a whole host of people that I care a lot about if Trump had just taken it [and conceded the 2020 election before January 6].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] has said that, unlike Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, he would have helped Mr. Trump overturn the results<\/strong>, by accepting Trump electors that had not been elected by voters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cNo real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming [Trump for January 6].\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance says he is \u2018skeptical\u2019 Pence\u2019s life was in danger on Jan. 6\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201c[Vance] downplayed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol<\/strong>, when Pence was forced to evacuate the building as rioters called for his hanging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance also has no problem with Donald Trump\u2019s Project 2025 plans to use the government to go after his political opponents and replace civil servants with MAGA loyalists.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Welker, NBC<\/a>: \u201cSenator, if former President Trump were to win, if you were to be his vice president, would you support him appointing a special prosecutor to go after his political enemies, the Bidens?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance: \u201cDonald Trump is talking about appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Joe Biden for wrongdoing. \u2026 I think what Donald Trump is simply saying is we ought to investigate the prior administration.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think that what Trump should do, like if I was giving him one piece of advice, is fire every single civil servant\u2026 replace them with our people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cAt the top of Vought and Dans\u2019s must-do list for the next president: reissuing an executive order that Trump signed during his final months in office\u2014and which President Joe Biden promptly reversed\u2014that would allow the government to remove civil-service protections <\/strong>from as many as 50,000 federal jobs. The move would create a new class of employees known as Schedule F whom the president could fire at will.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump-era conservatives want to gut the \u2018administrative state\u2019 from within<\/strong>, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president\u2019s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive\u2019s approach to governing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is still pushing baseless lies about his loss by over 7 million votes in the 2020 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201c[Trump] is flooding the airwaves and his social media platform with distortions, misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories about his defeat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cRe-litigating the 2020 election, repeating false claims it was stolen and casting aspersions on the security of mail voting remain major fixtures for [Trump] on the stump.<\/strong> \u2026 He regularly refers to the 2020 election as \u2018rigged\u2019 on his social media channels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump continues to praise and promise pardons for the violent insurrectionists he rallied to storm the Capitol on January 6, calling them \u201chostages\u201d and \u201cpatriots.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump vows pardons, government apology to Capitol rioters if elected\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Scott, ABC News<\/a>: \u201c140 police officers were assaulted [on January 6].<\/strong> Their injuries included broken bones, at least one officer lost an eye, one had two cracked ribs, two smashed spinal discs, another had a stroke. Were the people who assaulted those 140 officers, including those I just mentioned, \u2018patriots\u2019 who deserve pardons?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Trump refuses to answer]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cBut sir, my question is on those rioters who assaulted officers. Would you pardon those people?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump: \u201cOh absolutely I would. <\/strong>If they\u2019re innocent, I would pardon them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott: \u201cThey\u2019ve been convicted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThose people were treated very harshly\u2026 nobody was killed on January 6. But I think that the people of January 6 were treated very unfairly<\/strong>\u2026 they were there to complain about an election, and you know it\u2019s very interesting, the biggest crowd I\u2019ve ever spoken to.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump describes imprisoned Jan. 6 rioters as \u2018hostages\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME<\/a>: \u201cTrump has sought to recast the insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. \u2018I call them the J-6 patriots,\u2019<\/strong> Trump tells TIME. When asked whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says: \u2018Yes, absolutely.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump promised Wednesday night that if he is elected he will pardon a \u2018large portion\u2019 of the people convicted of federal offenses for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cJanuary 6, it was the largest crowd I\u2019ve ever spoken to. And they were there proud, they were there with love in their heart. That was an unbelievable \u2014 and it was a beautiful day.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has threatened political violence and warned of a \u201cbloodbath\u201d if he loses in November, and he is vowing to be a dictator on \u201cday one\u201d if he wins.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump threatens to jail adversaries in escalating rhetoric ahead of pivotal debate\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME<\/a>: \u201cExclusive: Donald Trump Says Political Violence \u2018Depends\u2019 on \u2018Fairness\u2019 of 2024 Election\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN<\/a>: \u201cMany people have lost American presidential elections over the last 230 years \u2013 Trump is the only one to say about violence if he loses \u2018it depends.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atlantic<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says He\u2019ll Be a Dictator on \u2018Day One\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump says there will be a \u2018bloodbath\u2019 if he loses the election\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reminder: No matter what Vance says, Project 2025 is an \u201cundeniably Trump-driven operation\u201d with deep ties to the Trump-Vance ticket. JD Vance is an extreme election denier who won\u2019t commit to accepting this November\u2019s election results, said he would not have certified the 2020 election, and continues to whitewash the violent January 6 insurrection. 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