Tom Emmer Defends JD Vance’s Debate Answer On The 2020 Election Results

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) on Wednesday defended Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) transfer to dodge a query on whether or not Donald Trump misplaced the 2020 election within the vice presidential debate earlier this week.

Throughout a phase centered on the state of U.S. democracy, one of many prime points for voters, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) pressed Vance to reply whether or not Trump misplaced the 2020 presidential contest.

“I’m centered on the longer term,” Vance stated.

“That may be a damning non-answer,” Walz shot again.

In an interview with CNN’s “The Supply,” Emmer, who stood in for Walz in Vance’s mock debate periods, stated he was happy with how the Ohio Republican dealt with the query, showing accountable the media for nonetheless specializing in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.

“He answered it,” Emmer stated. “You don’t like the reply, however he answered it. That is one thing that you simply of us within the media wish to concentrate on frequently. The American folks, and thank goodness JD Vance and Donald Trump, are centered on the election and how one can repair this nation.”

Emmer, who has beforehand falsely claimed there have been points with the 2020 race, was additionally among the many Republican lawmakers who signed an amicus transient supporting Texas Lawyer Common Ken Paxton’s lawsuit looking for to invalidate votes solid in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in an effort to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. The Supreme Court docket tossed the lawsuit.

Nonetheless, Emmer ultimately voted to certify the election consequence, saying on the time that “Congress doesn’t have the authority to discard a person slate of electors licensed by a state’s legislature in accordance with their structure.”

Requested if he stands by that evaluation, Emmer lashed out at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for mentioning the previous election cycle.

“What are you doing speaking about one thing that’s 4 years in the past?” Emmer requested.

“Donald Trump continues to be speaking about it,” Collins replied.

Trump has continued to baselessly declare the 2020 race was “rigged” towards him whilst particular counsel Jack Smith, who’s overseeing Trump’s federal election interference case, has introduced extra proof towards him in a newly unsealed courtroom submitting.

“The discharge of this falsehood-ridden, Unconstitutional, J6 transient instantly following Tim Walz’s disastrous Debate efficiency, and 33 days earlier than the Most Essential Election within the Historical past of our Nation, is one other apparent try by the Harris-Biden regime to undermine and Weaponize American Democracy, and INTERFERE IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,” he wrote on this Fact Social platform Wednesday.