WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Jim Jordan plans to participate in Jan. 6 efforts on the House of Representatives floor to question the propriety of Democrat Joe Biden’s election as president, the Champaign County Republican said in a pair of television interviews.
A vocal backer of President Donald Trump’s re-election, Jordan also attended rallies in Pennsylvania to claim the election was being “stolen” from Trump, and last week signed onto a Supreme Court brief to back a lawsuit that Texas filed to throw out election results from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Those results helped Biden clinch the election with 306 electoral votes to 232 for Trump. The Supreme Court rejected that case, and courts have tossed out dozens of other Trump-backed lawsuits to overturn the election results. Trump continues to make baseless accusations of widespread fraud in the election.
Trump supporters now hope to challenge the results during a Jan. 6 joint session of Congress when the House of Representatives and Senate meet to count and certify Electoral College votes. Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks, a member of the House Freedom Caucus that Jordan co-founded, has said he will raise objections during the meeting. For the challenge to be effective, one member of the House of Representatives and one member of the U.S. Senate have to submit objections in writing. So far, nobody in the Senate has stepped forward to do so, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has warned that doing so would be counterproductive.
In a Wednesday interview on Newsmax, Jordan described Jan. 6 as the “ultimate date of significance” in the election, and argued a floor debate over the election results would be both “good” and “healthy.
“Why not let that play out?” asked Jordan, arguing that “we had four years of the Democrats attacking this president, trying to throw President Trump out of office, but we can’t follow the process for a few weeks, we can’t follow the Constitution, we can’t follow the law.”
When asked whether any members of the U.S. Senate would back the effort, he replied: “There may be. We’ll see. You know, there’s some legal challenges still going on right now. We’re not to January 6 yet, so we’ll see what happens. But my attitude, again, I just keep coming back to this: Why are they afraid of a debate? .... I guess it’s the same reason the Democrats have been afraid to actually have real hearings.”
“We have more than a third of the electorate which believes the election was stolen,” said Jordan. “That is not a healthy situation for the nation. So for that reason alone, we should be doing everything we can to investigate this. We should be having more hearings, so we can get to the truth and reassure the American people that in the future, we’re not going to have the kind of complications and problems and shenanigans that went on in this election.”
In another Wednesday interview on Fox News, Jordan said Congress can “bring the truth forward, have the hearings, have the debates,” to challenge the election, but it can’t prosecute anyone.
“All we can do is bring information forward for the American people,” said Jordan.
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