Viral clip of JD Vance claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election and saying he would not concede if former president lost in 2024 resurfaces online

J.D. Vance claimed in a viral clip that Donald Trump won the Elections 2020 and said he would not concede if the former president lost in 2024.

The 2022 Republican vice presidential candidate was questioned by comedian Jason Selvig about who actually won the 2020 election in a video now making the rounds on X, formerly Tweet.

Selvig, known to fans for his street interviews, followed Vance as he repeatedly asked him if Trump had won the 2020 award. election.

‘Who won the 2020 elections? Could you please answer? Did Donald Trump win?’ Selvig asked Vance as he walked.

Vance replied, “Yes,” prompting Selvig to confirm what he had heard. “Did he win?” the median asked, to which Vance replied, “Yes.”

Selvig continued, asking the senator if he would concede if “your opponent gets more votes.”

But Vance refused to answer, instead telling Selvig he felt sorry for him before walking into another room after avoiding the question.

The resurfaced clip comes after Vance said during Tuesday night’s debate that he would have helped with Trump’s “alternative voter plan” to overturn the election.

Vance refused to acknowledge that Trump had lost the 2020 election during Tuesday’s debate and did so again Wednesday when pressed at a campaign event in Michigan.

It comes after a 165-page lawsuit from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team, unsealed Wednesday, provided a glimpse into the evidence and testimony prosecutors plan to present as the case accusing Trump of an illegal scheme to to overturn the 2020 election will ever come to court.

The Republican presidential candidate has insisted he did nothing illegal and has characterized the case as an attempt to damage his bid to win back the White House in November.

Trump’s lawyers who pushed to dismiss the case will now have a chance to respond to prosecutors’ claims in court.

Prosecutors allege that Trump began laying the groundwork for his illegal scheme well before Election Day, refusing to say in the months leading up to the election whether he would accept the results and suggesting that he could only lose if there was fraud.

Three days before the election, a Trump political adviser told a group of supporters that the then-president would “declare himself the winner regardless of the outcome,” prosecutors said.

“That doesn’t mean he’s the winner, he’s just going to say he’s the winner,” the adviser said.

Trump “did just that” immediately after the election, prosecutors said.

Then, in the days after the election, Trump’s allies tried to “create chaos” at polling places where votes were still being counted, Smith’s team claims.

When told about a series of votes in Detroit that appeared to be heavily in President Joe Biden’s favor, a campaign worker told a colleague to “find a reason” that didn’t add up and “give me options to make a to file a lawsuit. ‘

When the colleague suggested there would be unrest, the campaign worker responded: “Root them” and “Do it!!!” according to the declaration.

“The details don’t matter,” Trump told an adviser.

Prosecutors are trying to show that Trump knew his claims of election fraud were bogus because many close to him told him there was no fraud and that he had in fact lost the election.

Prosecutors say Trump ignored these assurances, just as he “ignored dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his and his allies’ legal claims.”

In a key moment detailed in the filing, prosecutors say a lawyer who represented Trump during his first impeachment trial told Trump his claims of election fraud would not hold up in court.

Trump responded: “The details don’t matter,” prosecutors said.

Prosecutors say they will introduce evidence showing that Trump and his allies “made up numbers from whole cloth” about election fraud, detailing how they repeatedly changed their baseless claims about the number of noncitizens who voted in Arizona.

One of the most illuminating parts of the dossier details the brutal pressure campaign that Trump and his allies mounted against Pence, which began well before Election Day and ran until the final minutes of the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory on January 6, 2021 .

While most of the details of the former president’s futile attempts to get his running mate to reject Biden’s electoral votes are well documented, Smith’s latest letter provides an even more detailed look at the rift between the two men , as prosecutors say one desperately tried to cling to power and the other fought to maintain its staunch loyalty to the Constitution.

When news organizations called the election for Biden on November 7, Pence saw it as an opportunity to “encourage” Trump “as a friend,” reminding him that he had “taken a dying political party and revived it.” , prosecutors say. wrote.

A few days later, as Trump and his allies were still strategizing to overcome the defeat, Pence reiterated that the next presidential election in 2024 was “not that far away.”

When Pence declined to support the various lawsuits being pursued by Trump and his closest allies in Congress on December 28, the filing states that Trump told his vice president that “hundreds of thousands” of people will “hate your guts” and “people I gonna think you’re stupid.’ He added, “You’re too honest.”

This continued for days, until the two men met in person for the last time before January 6.

The meeting in the Oval Office on the eve of the certification is seen by prosecutors as one of Trump’s last attempts to privately encourage Pence to keep him in power, telling him again that he had “the power to stop the certification.” decertify’, the results.

“When Pence was unmoved, the defendant threatened to publicly criticize him,” the filing said.

“I have to say you have done a great disservice,” Trump said.

Pence relayed this comment to a member of his team who saw it as a direct threat, “to the point where he alerted Pence’s Secret Service details.”

‘And then?’ Trump said when told Pence was being rushed to safety.

When Trump’s supporters began attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the counting of electoral votes, an aide rushed in to tell Trump that Pence had been taken to a secure location.

The aide hoped Trump would “take action to ensure Pence’s safety,” prosecutors wrote. Instead, Trump’s only response was, “So what?” prosecutors allege.

Prosecutors say they will present “forensic evidence” from Trump’s cell phone and testimony from witnesses to show how Trump spent the afternoon of Jan. 6 on Twitter and watching TV coverage of the riot as his aides pressured him to make a public statement to quell the violence.

“Instead, the defendant repeatedly refused until his advisors gave up and left him alone in the dining room,” prosecutors wrote.

Alone in the dining room, Trump then sent a tweet attacking Pence for “lacking the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution,” giving states the opportunity to establish a corrected set of facts and not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones they were previously required to certify.”

A rioter with a megaphone read Trump’s tweet about Pence to the crowd trying to enter the Capitol, prosecutors said.

Only after advisers again urged Trump to do something about the riot did he send a tweet encouraging his supporters to support law enforcement and “remain peaceful,” prosecutors wrote.