Comedian Questions Vice President on Election Concessions

Comedian Bill Maher challenged Vice President Vance on Friday over repeated Republican assertions that elections were stolen, saying candidates must accept losses. Maher told Vance that under President Trump the party treats elections as either a win or evidence of cheating.

He said that approach must end and that candidates should concede when they lose. Vance agreed that candidates should concede but maintained that technology companies censored negative information about one side and promoted it about the other during the 2020 contest.

Maher pointed to the settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems, now called Liberty Vote, as evidence against Vance's argument. Vance did not directly address the settlement.

Trump has maintained that his 2020 loss resulted from fraud despite court rulings against those claims. Earlier this year he told Congress that Democrats want to cheat in elections. In March the president signed an executive order changing election administration rules.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a proposal that would have used the U.S. Postal Service to hold mail ballots in states refusing to share voter data. A group of Democrats has sued the administration over restrictions on mail-in voting.