In response to JD Vance failing to confirm that he would accept election results in Arizona, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement: 

“JD Vance’s refusal to confirm whether he will accept the results of the next election is exactly why Donald Trump picked an extreme election denier like him as a running mate. Trump knows Vance will do what his last vice president wouldn’t – and put our freedom on the line as part of Trump’s continuing assault against our democracy. While Trump and Vance spend the final days of this race spreading lies about the last election and conspiracy theories about this one, voters are ready to reject both of them in November.”

JD Vance once again refused to confirm whether he will accept the results of this election and instead repeated bizarre conspiracy theories about previous elections.

Question: “The election is two weeks from today. I’m not going to be asking you about four years ago, but from what you’ve seen, from what you’ve learned, are you confident in the Arizona election system, and are you going to accept the results moving forward?”

Vance: “Well, look, I think that we’re in a better- I think that we’re in a better place than we were in 2020 and I think that what we’re going to keep on working on over the next couple of weeks. I mean, you saw this even in 2022 where some of the voting machines in Maricopa went down on Election Day. Now, whether, now again, whether you think that was just incompetence or something else, it’s not okay. We want every legal ballot to be cast and to be counted in the United States of America. So we’re going to keep on fighting for election integrity.”

Vance is an extreme election denier who won’t commit to accepting this November’s election results, said he would not have certified the 2020 election, and continues to whitewash the violent January 6 insurrection.

HuffPost: “[Vance] said he would accept a Biden win only if he considered the election to be legitimate. … Vance’s comments illustrate a new tactic by Republican lawmakers, who are now placing conditions on accepting election results.”

New York Times: “J.D. Vance Says He Would Accept the Election Results, With a Caveat”

Spectrum News: “Vance again says he wouldn’t have certified 2020 election if he was vice president”

ABC News: “JD Vance says [he] wouldn’t have certified 2020 race until states submitted pro-Trump electors”

New York Times: “[Vance] has said that, unlike Vice President Mike Pence in 2020, he would have helped Mr. Trump overturn the results, by accepting Trump electors that had not been elected by voters.”

Bloomberg: “[Vance] has asserted that the 2020 presidential race was stolen from Donald Trump.”

Vance: “I 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, and to force us to have that debate. I think it would’ve been a much better thing for the country. … [Trump] was trying to take a constitutional process to its natural conclusion.

“I think it would’ve 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].”

Vance: “No real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming [Trump for January 6].”

The Hill: “JD Vance says he is ‘skeptical’ Pence’s life was in danger on Jan. 6”

Politico: “[Vance] downplayed the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, when Pence was forced to evacuate the building as rioters called for his hanging.”

Vance previously failed FIVE consecutive times to tell the truth about Donald Trump’s loss in 2020 – and says he would not have certified the results.

New York Times: “Vance, Given 5 Chances to Say Trump Lost in 2020, Takes None”

“Heading into the final three weeks of the 2024 election, Senator JD Vance of Ohio will still not say whether his running mate won or lost the last race for the White House.

“In an interview with The New York Times that will be published on Saturday, Mr. Vance repeatedly refused to acknowledge former President Donald J. Trump’s defeat and went to even greater lengths to avoid doing so than he did during the vice-presidential debate earlier this month. …

“On her fifth request for a yes-or-no answer, Ms. Garcia-Navarro pointed out that there was ‘no proof, legal or otherwise,’ of election fraud.

“Mr. Vance dismissed that as ‘a slogan.’ …

“During his 90-minute debate with Mr. Walz, Mr. Vance twice refused to answer a direct question about whether Mr. Trump had lost the 2020 election. It was widely considered his weakest debate moment and may have turned off voters. In CNN’s focus group of seven undecided Michigan voters who watched the debate, the only person who settled on a pick after the event said he would support Vice President Kamala Harris specifically because of Mr. Vance’s refusal to acknowledge the 2020 election results. …

“In his Times interview, Mr. Vance said he would not have voted to certify the 2020 results.”

Vance even previously falsely claimed that Trump won the 2020 election in an unearthed video.

Daily Beast: “Video Shows JD Vance Saying Trump Won the 2020 Election”

“JD Vance claimed Donald Trump won the 2020 election in an unearthed clip from 2022. The video … comes days after Vance refused to outright admit that Trump lost the race against Joe Biden during the CBS News vice presidential debate.”

On the debate stage with Governor Walz, Vance REFUSED to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election while whitewashing January 6 and declining to say if he would challenge this November’s election results.

NBC News: “‘Damning non-answer’: Vance refuses to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election”

“JD Vance refused to acknowledge that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election during the vice presidential debate Tuesday and downplayed the seriousness of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which injured more than 140 law enforcement officers. He also declined to say whether he would seek to challenge the results of this year’s election.”

ABC News: “JD Vance refuses to say Trump lost in 2020, downplays events of Jan. 6”

Politico: “Vance refuses to admit that Trump lost the 2020 election”

“Vance omitted Trump’s attacks on his then-Vice President Mike Pence while a violent riot raged, as well as his months of fomenting false claims that the election was stolen and urging his supporters to ‘stop the steal.’ … Vance has previously said in interviews that he would have done in 2020 what Pence refused to do: facilitate challenges to the election at the Jan. 6 session of Congress, despite constitutional and legal restraints meant to prevent it.”

NBC News: “When asked if he would challenge this year’s election results, Ohio Sen. JD Vance avoided a direct answer, instead defending Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.”