Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and a former chief economist for Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), labeled recent remarks by Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as “disqualifying.” Specifically, Riedl was responding to Vance’s declaration this week that he would not have certified the results of the 2020 presidential election had he been in Vice President Mike Pence’s shoes on January 6th, 2020. After being repeatedly pressed by podcaster Jason Calacanis on Monday night whether he would have done as Pence did and allowed the certification process to go through, Vance dodged the …