Jim Jordan to join effort questioning Bid en win
Urbana’sU.S. Rep. plans to take partJan. 6in effffffortsontheHouse floorthatquestiontheresultsof thepresidential election.
U.S. WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Rep. JimJordan plans to participate in Jan. 6 efffffffffffforts on the House of Representatives flfloor to question the propriety of Democrat Joe Biden’s election as president, the Republican from Urbana said in a pair of television interviews.
Avocal backerof President Donald Trump’s re-election, Jordan also attended rallies in Pennsylvania to claim the election was being “stolen” from Trump, and last weeksignedontoa Supreme Court brief to back a lawsuit that Texas fifiled to throwout election results from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. Those results helped Biden clinch the election with 306 electoral votes to 232 forTrump. The SupremeCourt 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 ElectoralCollege votes. Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks, a member of the House FreedomCaucus 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 inwriting. 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 signifificance” in the election, and argued a flfloor 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 offiffice, but we can’t followthe process for a few weeks, we can’t follow the Constitution, we can’t follow the law.”
When askedwhether any members of the U.S. Senate would back the effffffffffffort, 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 reasontheDemocratshavebeen afraid to actually have real hearings.”