This headline makes it look like the lie is that Vance never said that.
As if saying "Vance never said Trump did not lose."
Took me a minute of reading the article to figure out that the lie you're calling out is what Vance said, not that he said it.
Edited for more clarity on my part (hopefully lol)
That never worked for me. The "I don't want your excuses" types were never looking for an answer they just wanted to be dicks.
Trying to further explain like in your quote above always produced "that's just more excuses!" or, "don't talk back to me" or "likely story..." or, "don't be a smartass!"
All bullshit. There are reasonable people out there but those who ask a question then berate the person they asked for answering (or for refusing to answer, when they already know the outcome) are just assholes who today will lose both my respect and attention.