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Senator J.D. Vance, the Ohio Republican who’s a contender to be former President Donald J. Trump’s operating mate, hedged on Sunday when he was requested whether or not he would settle for the outcomes of the November election.
“If we’ve got a free and truthful election, I’ll settle for the outcomes,” Mr. Vance advised CNN’s Dana Bash throughout an look on the present “State of the Union.”
Mr. Vance, 39, whom the Trump marketing campaign has enlisted as a surrogate, signaled that Republicans had been making ready for the prospect of election disputes.
“We must be prepared, as Democrats did in 2000, as Democrats have accomplished up to now, and positively as Republicans did in 2020, is should you assume they had been issues, it’s important to be prepared to pursue these issues and attempt to prosecute your case,” he mentioned.
Mr. Vance is predicted to hitch Mr. Trump on Wednesday in Cincinnati at a fund-raiser, a doable audition to be Mr. Trump’s operating mate. He additionally attended a latest occasion at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s membership in Florida, with a number of different vice-presidential contenders and Republican donors.
Mr. Vance has appeared wanting to show his loyalty to Mr. Trump, telling ABC News in February that if he had been vp on Jan. 6, 2021, he would have allowed Congress to think about fraudulent slates of pro-Trump electors earlier than certifying the election.
Mike Pence, who was vp on the time, rebuffed Mr. Trump’s calls to disrupt the switch of energy after Joseph R. Biden Jr. gained the presidency.
During Mr. Vance’s interview with CNN on Sunday, he additionally defended Mr. Trump’s latest feedback that “any Jewish individual” who had voted for Mr. Biden “needs to be ashamed of themselves.”
“We have to recollect, Donald Trump may be very direct right here,” Mr. Vance mentioned. “And he hasn’t singled out Jewish Americans. He singled out lots of people for voting for Joe Biden.”
Mr. Vance has not at all times been an unflagging acolyte of the previous president.
Before the 2016 election, Mr. Vance, a enterprise capitalist and the creator of “Hillbilly Elegy,” his best-selling memoir, referred to as Mr. Trump a “cultural heroin” and a demagogue who was “main the white working class to a really darkish place.”
But his candidacy for the Senate in 2022 garnered the backing of one of the influential figures within the “Make America Great Again” world: the previous president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., who vouched for Mr. Vance on social media throughout a crowded Republican major. It would open a door to an endorsement from the previous president himself.
