Rep. Jim Jordan laid into Democrats during a House floor speech, accusing the party of having a double standard when it comes to objecting to election results.
“In his opening remarks, the Democrat chair of the Rules Committee said that Republicans last week voted to overturn the results of an election,” Jordan said. “Guess who the first objector was on January 6, 2017? First objector. The Democrat chair of the Rules Committee. And guess which state he objected to — Alabama, the very first state called. Alabama. President Trump won Alabama by, I think, like 80 points. Actually, he won it by 30 points.”
Rep. @Jim_Jordan: “Democrats object to more states in 2017 than Republicans did last week, but somehow we’re wrong.
Democrats can raise bail for rioters and looters this summer, but somehow when Republicans condemn all the violence…somehow we’re wrong.” pic.twitter.com/ktqZD4DytC
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 13, 2021
Jordan wondered why Democrats had no problem with objections to Alabama but were suddenly appalled by the Republican objections to Pennsylvania.
“They can object to Alabama in 2017 but tell us we can’t object to Pennsylvania in 2021,” Jordan continued. “Pennsylvania, where the state Supreme Court unilaterally extended the election to Friday. Pennsylvania, where the secretary of state unilaterally changed the rules, went around the legislature in unconstitutional fashion. Pennsylvania, where county clerks in some counties, and you can imagine which counties they were, let people fix their ballots against the law. Fixed, cured, their ballots, their mail-in ballots, a direct violation of the law. And they tell us we tried to overturn the election.”
Jordan then pointed out that Democrats actually objected to more states in 2017 than Republicans did after the most recent election.
“Guess who the second objector was in 2017? The individual managing the impeachment for the Democrats,” Jordan argued. “Americans are tired of the double standard. They are so tired of it. Democrats object to more states in 2017 than Republicans did last week, but somehow, we’re wrong. Democrats can raise bail for rioters and looters this summer but somehow, when Republicans condemn all the violence, the violence this summer, the violence last week, somehow we’re wrong. And Democrats can investigate the president of the United States … try to impeach him, investigate him for four years but will not look at an election that 80 million Americans, half the electorate … Republicans and Democrats, have their doubts about.”
Democrats have taken aim at their Republican colleagues in recent days, blaming those who objected to the certification of the Electoral College results as at least partly responsible for the siege of the U.S. Capitol last week.
“These are domestic terrorists attempting a coup who were incited and supported by lawless Republicans lawmakers,” Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton said. “I think they should be censured because we need to make it clear to future lawmakers and future generations of Americans that you will not incite violence against the United States of America. That’s treasonous.”
But Republicans have argued that much of the electorate has questions about the results of the 2020 election, arguing that an investigation into the results is necessary to restore faith in the democratic process.
