The tradition advertising continues to push Sen. J. D. Vance to declare Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, with Martha Raddatz on Sunday’s” This Month” being the latest in a series of investigators pressing the vice-presidential member on that topic. The whole trade revealed that the underlying flaw is in the problem rather than Vance’s response, even though Vance had previously stated as before that” of sure Donald Trump and I believe there were difficulties in 2020.”
For a whole two days during yesterday’s meeting, Raddatz demanded Vance state Trump lost the 2020 election. ” Why wo n’t you say that”? she asked, to which Vance replied:” Because, Martha, I believe that in 2020, when Big Tech were censoring American citizens, that created very serious problems” . ,
” I do n’t understand why you wo n’t just say that you believe it”? Raddatz retorted. ” Did Donald Trump lose? That’s the problem, and you know that’s the question” . ,
It was here that an irritated Vance made his point obvious:” Martha, I’ve said constantly I think the 2020 election had problems, you want to say’ manipulated,’ you want to state,’ he won,’ use whatever vocabulary term you want”. What happened, Vance stressed, was the “censoring of other people in a way that’ violated our fundamental privileges,'” and that was a bigger concern, Vance explained, than what terms he used to frame the issue.
This change demonstrates how important it is to understand why Vance continues to demand an answer when asked why Donald Trump lost the 2020 vote.  ,
The keyword includes an unknown word — “lost”— which holds a different significance to Trump backers and to the anti-Trump inquisitors.
If “lost” simply meant Biden is the president of the United States, therefore that’s an easy answer: Well, of course, Trump lost, as Biden was inaugurated and has spent the past 3.5 times in the Oval Office.
But that’s not what those who demand Vance say Trump lost indicate by “lost.” Every individual posing this issue injects within the concept of “lost” a agreement that Trump’s 2020 challenges were silly, false, or bad. That’s why they pose the question and why Vance wo n’t provide a “yes” — because that is not what Vance and many other American’s believe.
If Trump supporters were to be asked whether the election was “lost,” that is, if all legitimate votes were counted and all illegal counts were discarded legally and the counting was done in accordance with applicable election law, they would resound with” I do n’t know.”
Because there were too many illegal votes counted and election laws broken in 2020, no one can possibly know the answer to that question. However, the lawsuits challenging the results of the elections were dismissed once the votes were verified, so there was never a ruling on the accuracy of the results.
But “lost” can also have a third meaning in this context: Did Trump lose a free and fair election to Joe Biden?  ,
Yesterday Vance answered that question, telling Raddatz, “you want to say’ rigged'” “you want to say,’ he won,’ use whatever vocabulary term you want”. The vice-presidential candidate’s closer then cemented the point, stressing that the “censoring of fellow citizens” was such that it “violated our fundamental rights”. In other words, no, Trump did n’t lose a free and fair election to Joe Biden.
Vance in his Sunday interview with Raddatz, as well as in earlier interviews, highlighted as an example of the censorship, the squelching of the Hunter Biden laptop story. The government’s complicity in that censorship, coupled with strong evidence indicating Trump would have won in 2020 had Americans learned the truth about the laptop, confirms Vance’s view that the election was “rigged”.
The censorship of the laptop story, however, was but one aspect of the rigging that took place in 2020, as I previously detailed. A few examples: The 2020 election was also rigged by the” systemic violations of election law” which “disparately favor]ed ] one candidate” and “allow]ed ] for tens of thousands of illegal votes to be counted”. The election was rigged by the unconstitutional authorization of no-excuse absentee voting and the illegal collection of ballots in nursing homes, according to the statement.
There is more:” The election was rigged with every dollar spent on Zuck Bucks to promote the Democrat agenda, and with every leftist activist working in county clerk offices to promote such efforts while accumulating untold voter data for the Biden campaign.” Additionally, the election was “rigged” because Georgia unlawfully made the election code’s requirement for signature verifications inoperative, and the state court delayed a hearing on Trump’s challenge to the Georgia outcome until after the vote certification, ignoring evidence that more than 35, 000 illegal votes were counted in the state’s tally, which would have required a court to throw out the election.
So, if the term “lost” Raddatz and other legacy press members mean Joe Biden won a free and fair election, then the answer is no.
Or, as Vance said, use whatever vocabulary you want: “you want to say’ rigged'” “you want to say,’ he won.'”
Vance is right, but Trump’s running mate is also wise to not waste time in debating what “lost” means because the public does n’t care: What Americans care about is the disaster they are living under the Biden-Harris Administration.
Margot Cleveland is an investigative journalist and legal analyst and serves as The Federalist’s senior legal correspondent. Margot’s work has been published at The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, the New Criterion, National Review Online, Townhall.com, the Daily Signal, USA Today, and the Detroit Free Press. She is also a regular guest on nationally syndicated radio programs and on Fox News, Fox Business, and Newsmax. Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize—the law school’s highest honor. She later served on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals as a permanent law clerk for a federal appellate judge for nearly 25 years. Cleveland was a full-time faculty member before switching to a teaching adjunct position. Additionally, Cleveland serves as a lawyer for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. You can follow Cleveland on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland to learn more about her most cherished accomplishments, including her husband and son. Cleveland’s views are those expressed here in her personal capacity.