Given the importance of that last role, we should not be at all surprised that, when he finally offered a concrete position after weeks of asking, Vance asserted that Trump had in fact not lost the 2020 presidential election. He attempted to rationalize and defend his response, as we will explain in a moment, but that’s all irrelevant.

The answer was the most specific Vance has been on the subject, and a departure from the series of evasions he has offered about the 2020 election.