Jim Jordan, who played key role in bid to overturn 2020, elected House GOP leader

Republicans have chosen Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — who aggressively worked to subvert the 2020 election on behalf of President Donald Trump and pushed false anti-voting conspiracy theories — to serve as their new leader in the U.S. House.

Jordan was elected Tuesday by a secret vote of 106-73 in the wake of the party’s disastrous defeat in the midterms.

While Jordan later denied saying the election was stolen, a 2023 investigation by CNN found that he was one of the leading purveyors of that narrative. 

Jordan “functioned as one of the key conduits … from the House GOP conference to the White House in Trump’s quest to overturn his defeat,” and appeared at Stop the Steal rallies, the Washington Post has reported.

Jordan also expressed support for GOP lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Texas challenging the results and pushed patently false election fraud conspiracy theories — like debunked claims of dead people voting.

Trump “should not concede. Everyone knows instinctively, everyone knows there are problems with this election,” Jordan told the conservative Newsmax network, according to CNN.

And he wasn’t shy about saying he didn’t accept the results. 

In a Dec. 9, 2020, interview with Fox News Radio, Jordan said: “I don’t know how you can ever convince me that President Trump didn’t actually win this thing based on all the things you see, the eleven million more votes.”

He even took to the House floor on Jan. 6, 2021 — the day Trump supporters would storm the Capitol in a bid to prevent the election’s certification — to cast doubt on the results.

“Vice President [Joe] Biden would do an event and get 50 people at the event. President Trump at just one rally had 50,000 people. President Trump increases vote with African Americans, increases vote with Hispanic, won 19 of 20 bellwether counties, won Ohio by eight, Iowa by eight, and Florida by three. Got 11 million more votes than he did in 2016, and House Republicans won 27 of 27 toss-up races,” Jordan said.

“But somehow the guy who never left his house wins the election?” he continued. “Eighty million Americans, 80 million of our fellow citizens, Republicans and Democrats, have doubts about this election, and 60 million people — 60 million Americans — think it was stolen.”

Jordan’s role in the effort to overturn the 2020 contest went unmentioned Tuesday by the New York Times, the Washington Post and Politico in their coverage of his election to his new post.