While Kamala Harris continues to avoid any interview with The New York Times, J.D. Vance again entered hostile territory to be grilled on their podcast "The Interview" with NPR refugee Lourdes Garcia-Navarro. This woman is so far to the Left that relayed in 2016 that being kissed by one of Fidel Castro's two brothers in Cuba was like being "getting the blessing of the Holy Trinity."
The Times put the whole interview on YouTube, but highlighted what they liked the most, which of course included hectoring Vance about accepting that Donald Trump lost in 2020. Vance never concedes the point (it might have been required for the Veep slot), so what is the point? The liberals think this shows all the Republicans can't handle Reality. So here's how it went, with the question thrown FOUR times.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: In the debate you were asked to clarify if you believe Trump lost the 2020 election. do you believe he lost the 2020 election?
VANCE: I think that Donald Trump and I have both raised a number of issues with the 2020 election, but we're focused on the future. I think there's an obsession here with focusing on 2020. I'm much more worried about what happened after 2020 which is a wide open border, groceries that are unaffordable and look--
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Senator, yes or no: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 elections?
VANCE: Let me ask you a question. Is it okay that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analysis of said, cost Donald Trump millions of votes?
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Senator Vance, I'm going to ask you again. Did Donald Trump lose the 2020?
VANCE: Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes? [That is the MRC Poll.] That is the question.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
VANCE: I have answered your question with another question. You answer my question and I’ll answer yours.
NBC's fake-news skit on Saturday Night Live mocked that "answer with a question" response. But when they hammer on a point like this, it seems designed to torture the guest into a surrender. If Trump lost the 2020 election due to losing battleground states -- and just 44,000 votes in Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin separated Biden and Trump from a tie in the Electoral College -- then censoring stories damaging to Biden could have made the difference. That's what our poll found.
Then she changed the question to whether Vance would have voted to certify the election, knowing full well his answer has been No, and then if there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January.
Others picked up on the exchange on illegal immigration, and how Vance was "brilliant" on how massive immigration has driven up the price of houses.
BRILLIANT: JD Vance educates NYT's Lulu Garcia-Navarro on LABOR FORCE participation, countering her defense of illegal labor. He notes 7 million men have left the workforce and criticizes reliance on immigrants over reengaging struggling AMERICANS. 🚨pic.twitter.com/2FwlK4PL6X
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) October 12, 2024
Garcia-Navarro pointed out a third of construction workers are Hispanic and "a large proportion are undocumented… So how do you propose to build all the housing necessary that we need in this country by removing all the people who are working in construction?"
"Well, I think it’s a fair question because we know that back in the 1960s, when we had very low levels of illegal immigration, Americans didn’t build houses. But, of course they did. And I’m being sarcastic in service of a point," Vance responded.
He added: “People say, ‘Well, Americans won’t do those jobs,'” Vance acknowledged, before refuting that common argument. “Americans won’t do those jobs for below-the-table wages. They won’t do those jobs for non-living wages, but people will do those jobs.”
