Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance skillfully responded to a misleading question about election integrity in a recent interview with the New York Times.

“Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” asked the NYT’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro. “Let me ask you a question. Is it okay that big technology companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, which independent analysis have said it cost Donald Trump millions of votes?” Vance responded, pointing to Facebook and Twitter’s infamous decision to censor the bombshell story just weeks before the 2020 election.

Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have admitted that intelligence officials pressured them to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, claiming it showed “hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”

Numerous polls suggest that this government-assisted censorship had a substantial impact on the election outcome. For instance, a survey conducted by the New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics found that nearly four in five Americans believe that “truthful” reporting of the story would have swayed the election in favor of Donald Trump.

Garcia-Navarro tried to sidestep this fact by once again asking Vance whether his running mate lost the 2020 election.

“Did big technology companies censor a story that independent studies have suggested would have cost Trump millions of votes? I think that’s the question,” the Ohio Republican shot back.

“Senator Vance, I’m going to ask you again, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” an annoyed Garcia-Navarro once again asked.

“And I’ve answered your question with another question. You answer my question and I’ll answer yours,” Vance replied.

“You’re repeating a slogan rather than engaging with what I’m saying, which is that when our own technology firms engage in industrial-scale censorship, by the way, backed up by the federal government in a way that independent studies suggest affect the votes, I’m worried about Americans who feel like there were problems in 2020,” he continued.

“I’m not worried about the slogan that people throw. ‘Well, every court case went this way.’ I’m talking about something very discreet, a problem of censorship in this country that I do think affected things in 2020, and more importantly, that led to Kamala Harris’s governance, which has screwed this country up in a big way,” Vance added.

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