JD Vance says he would have helped Trump steal 2020 election

JD Vance said on Monday that if he was vice president during the 2020 election cycle, he would have accepted fraudulent slates of electors that were presented by allies of Donald Trump, an action that would have invalidated millions of votes.

Trump’s running mate made the statement during an interview at the All-In Summit, a tech conference in Los Angeles.

Moderator and “All-In” podcast host Jason Calacanis noted that in January 2021, former Vice President Mike Pence defied Trump’s wishes and went ahead with certifying the electoral votes that led to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially being elected president and vice president. Calacanis asked Vance if he would have done the same.

“I would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors,” Vance replied, while also asserting that he believed Pence “could have played a better role” during the proceedings.

Under the Electoral College and as mandated by the Constitution, electors are selected by each state to vote for the candidate who won the majority of votes in the state. Vance’s proposal would have invalidated the choices of millions of voters who picked the Biden-Harris ticket over the Trump-Pence slate.

Following his election loss, bogus electors were submitted on Trump’s behalf in an attempt to subvert the result in Trump’s favor. Several states, including Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, have since brought criminal charges in relation to the fake elector schemes.