Jay Clayton, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the United States intelligence community, refused to say outright that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election when pressed by Democrats in the Senate.

Clayton, the former SEC chair and current U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday as senators weigh his nomination.

Asked repeatedly who won the 2020 presidential election by Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Clayton dismissed the question and then just flat-out refused to answer.

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election?

CLAYTON: I’m not going to do this with you.

OSSOFF: This is a job interview. We’ve established that you have an obligation to be honest —

CLAYTON: It’s a pretty interesting job.

OSSOFF:  — and forthright with the committee yes? You do have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee?

CLAYTON: Yes.

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election?

CLAYTON: Like I said I’m not going to get into that with you.

OSSOFF: But you do have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee?

CLAYTON: Is anything that I just said not honest or forthright?

OSSOFF: Yes you’re not being honest or forthright. Who won the 2020 election?

CLAYTON I think I’ve answered the question. We can keep doing this.

OSSOFF: We’ll we’re going to keep doingit because you’re not being honest or forthright with the committee.

CLAYTON: No I’m not going to engage in the theater.

OSSOFF: It’s a simple question Mr. Clayton.

CLAYTON: And I’ve answered it.

OSSOFF Who won the 2020 presidential election?

CLAYTON: I’m not going to keep doing this.

“Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president’s delusions? We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the truthful answer to that question. Why can you not give it?” Ossoff asked.

“I think I gave you the answer,” Clayton replied.

Sen. Mark Kelly (R-Ariz.) also asked Clayton about the 2020 election and also got a non-answer.

Trump “isn’t in the room today,” Kelly said. “If you can’t disagree with him when he’s ‌not in the room, are you going to be able to disagree with him when you’re sitting across from him?”

Democrats also pressed Clayton on other election comments.

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked Clayton about a statement he made seeming to back far-right claims of widespread voter fraud in California.

“We had a problem, a deep problem with voting in America,” Clayton said during a CNBC interview last month. “On the integrity side, we’re doing an absolutely terrible job, and the American people are right to question it.”

On Wednesday, Clayton told King, “That meant that the audit trail we have available for our elections in a number of places is not the kind of audit trail that you would expect in something that is this important.”

Asked by King whether voter fraud was a problem in American elections, Clayton said: “I don’t think we can say definitively whether there is, or is not, until we have better processes.”

The Intelligence Committee is expected to vote on Clayton’s nomination next week.