WASHINGTON ― One of the 20 Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan in his bid for House speaker on Tuesday says he did so because Jordan won’t state that President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election.to say the election wasn’t stolen during a party meeting last week. He said he raised the issue again during a one-on-one meeting with Jordan on Monday evening but came away unsatisfied.
During the vote for speaker, Buck cast his ballot for Rep. Tom Emmer instead of Jordan. The other anti-Jordan Republicans split their votes among six people who, like Emmer, weren’t even candidates.Jordan has said the House will hold another vote on his bid for the gavel. Back in January, it took Rep. Kevin McCarthy 15 rounds of voting to become speaker.
After Tuesday’s vote, Buck joined CNN to expand his attack on Jordan’s efforts to support Trump. Jordan has marshaled committee resources to investigate the supposed “weaponization of government” against Trump, who faces multiple criminal indictments, and proposed cutting funding for some Justice Department operations.
Buck said that during their meeting on Monday evening, Jordan told him that he believed the Pennsylvania secretary of state had taken unconstitutional action to allow the counting of certain mail-in ballots after the 2020 election.“He doesn’t know how the election would have turned out if they had not taken that unconstitutional action,” Buck said Jordan told him.