Ever since Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) refused to acknowledge that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election during this week’s vice presidential debate, Republicans have been playing defense on election denial. The most recent instance of that happened when CNN host Pamela Brown questioned a Republican member of Congress on Thursday. Toward the end of the segment – which touched on Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith’s newly unsealed document justifying his D.C. election interference case against Trump — Brown asked Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Florida) if he would commit to a “peace…