House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday refused to say former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.
During a heated interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Johnson also declined to criticize comments from Donald Trump and Eric Trump implying Democrats helped fuel the assassination attempt against the former president in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July….
The ABC host asked Johnson multiple times whether he was willing to say definitively Biden won the 2020 presidential election. Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance declined to do the same during Tuesday’s debate on CBS.
Biden won the 2020 election. Donald Trump and his allies launched dozens of lawsuits following the election, and the former president has long said without evidence the race was impacted by voter fraud. Courts across the country have rejected the allegations.
“You want us to litigate things that happened four years ago when we’re talking about the future,” Johnson said. “We’re not going to talk about what happened in 2020.”