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WASHINGTON — Republican US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson sidestepped a question on Sunday on whether he accepted that Donald Trump lost to Democratic President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, giving a response similar to that from the former president's running mate in the vice-presidential debate.
"When pressed further, he said: "This is a gotcha game that's played, and I'm not playing it."In Tuesday's vice-presidential debate, Senator JD Vance, Trump's running mate, also sidestepped the question.Johnson also refused to condemn the former president's suggestion that the Republican presidential candidate's political opponents may be behind attempts to have him killed.Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13.
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