Vice President Pence’s spokesman denied on Thursday that Pence had any meetings with Kremlin-connected officials during the 2016 campaign, according to CNN.

"The answer is no. The vice president had no meetings with individuals associated with the Russian government during the campaign or the transition," Marc Lotter told CNN.

Lotter’s comments come one day after he dodged questions from Fox News’s Bill Hemmer on whether the vice president met with Russian officials during the campaign.

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"The vice president is not focused on the areas in this campaign, especially things that happened before he was even on the ticket," Lotter told Hemmer Wednesday on “America’s Newsroom."

"As he has said, when he joined the campaign his entire focus was on talking to the American people, taking the case that President Trump was going to make to the American people and doing everything he could to make sure that he and President Trump were elected and sent to Washington,” he continued.

"Is that a yes or a no, did he or did he not?" Hemmer said.

Lotter said he was “not aware of anything that I have seen.”

The Trump administration is grappling with backlash from a New York Times report that Donald Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE Jr. was told prior to a meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June of 2016 that Veselnitskaya was offering damaging information on Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Momentum growing among Republicans for Supreme Court vote before Election Day Warning signs flash for Lindsey Graham in South Carolina MORE as part of a Russian government effort to aid then-candidate Trump’s campaign.

Donald Trump Jr. released a chain of emails on Tuesday documenting his conversations setting up the meeting with Veselnitskaya.

“If it's what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” Trump Jr. told British publicist Rob Goldstone, who was acting as an intermediary to set up the meeting.

The vice president has remained relatively quiet on the revelations surrounding Trump Jr., though he reaffirmed his support for the president in a tweet on Wednesday, stopping short of addressing the revelations.

Many Media & Dems will try to stop us but now more than ever we owe the American people to continue to deliver what @POTUS & I campaigned on https://t.co/gXyApIzy4s — Vice President Pence (@VP) July 12, 2017

Pence denied having any knowledge of alleged ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin prior to Trump's inauguration in January.

"I joined this campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That’s why he won in a landslide election," he told Fox News's Chris Wallace.