Jordan claimed in October that Democrats were working to steal the election and spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally in Pennsylvania two days after the election. In December, he said he didn’t know how he could be convinced that “Trump didn’t actually win” the election. Jordan also objected to the electoral college results and called for an investigation into the election.
Jim Jordan repeatedly refuses to say Biden fairly won election.
On November 18, Jordan called for Congress to investigate the election “amid troubling reports of irregularities and improprieties”.
President Donald Trump has awarded Ohio Republican Jim Jordan the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honour, after he continued to object to the certification of the 2020 elections after a violent pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol.
The congressman was awarded the medal during a closed-door ceremony at the White House on Monday. Members of the press were not invited to document the event.
Mr Jordan has been one of the president’s strongest allies on Capitol Hill, continuing to object to his electoral defeat last week as other Republicans who previously contested the results withdrew their support as a result of the deadly riots.
Mr Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, was one of eight House lawmakers who were part of Mr Trump’s defence team in his Senate impeachment trial last year.
He’s been one of the more outspoken defenders of the president as Mr Trump faced the prospect of being impeached for a second time in his final days of office because of his actions prior to the mob assault on the Capitol last week, which some have claimed encouraged the rioters.