Ill., the ranking Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat, grilled Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Under oath, she declined to clearly acknowledge President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.

The question seemed simple enough. To paraphrase, the question was who lost the 2020 election. That question led to an

In 2020, Bondi supported Trump's efforts to overturn the election, embracing false claims of voter fraud and asserting that " we won Pennsylvania ," a state Trump in fact lost by 80,000 votes. Durbin responded to Bondi's deflection by saying that he thought his question “deserved a yes or no.”