Jim Jordan: The Biggest Question Is, ‘What Happened to the 10 Million Voters that Biden Got but Didn’t Come Up for Harris?’

BASH: “It seems to me that Republicans claim voting fraud and election integrity when you lose and not when you win.”
Jordan: “No. I mean, again, as I said before, this election I think was the greatest political comeback we have ever seen. He did something that even Teddy Roosevelt couldn’t do, for goodness’ sake. And the country — “
BASH: “But you think it was a free and fair election?”
Jordan: “No, no, this election — you just interviewed the Latino, I think, restaurant owner or a restaurant worker, and he said he was tired of all the woke stuff. This election was real simple. You had back-to-back administrations. We got something we very seldom get in American history, in American politics, back-to-back administrations now running for the top job, and people could do a direct comparison. And they said, ‘We like what we had under President Trump versus — we liked the safe streets versus the record crime. We liked the $2 gas versus the $4 gas. We liked the security border versus the open border.’”
BASH: “Right. Those are policies — “
Jordan: “That’s what this election was about.”
BASH: “That’s totally fair. But last time around, it wasn’t so much about the policy differences or the personality differences. There were false claims about election fraud when Donald Trump lost. This time, Donald Trump won, and you think the election was free and fair. You see there’s a little bit of a...?”
Jordan: “No, I think the Democrats got to ask, ‘Why did we go from getting 81 million to getting 70 million?’ What happened to those 10 million people? Maybe they needed — maybe it’s not smart to run an election where you have no vision, no record to run on, where you’re just going to call the other side names and you’re going to use lawfare.”
[Cross-talk]
BASH: “Do you believe that the 2024 election was free and fair?”
Jordan: “I do. I do.”
BASH: “And why was it different from 2020, when he lost? Is that the only difference?”
Jordan: “No, there were concerns about 2020 with all the mail-in voting that happened. What, Pennsylvania had, like, two-point-something million mail-in ballots come in without any signature verification, which was required under Pennsylvania statute. So there were all kinds of concerns with how the 2020 election was carried out.”
BASH: “OK, but there was absolutely no widespread fraud.”
Jordan: “But the biggest question Democrats need to be asking, what happened to the 10 million voters that Joe Biden got that didn’t come out for Kamala Harris? A bunch of them — President Trump’s numbers were right up where they were in 2020, but the Democrats were much lower. I think it’s because they had no vision, no record to run on, and they just wanted to call everyone names. Turns out, when you tell people, oh, you’re a fascist, racist, deplorable, garbage, they don’t like that. And then when you use lawfare to go after their candidate, they don’t like that either. That’s why they came out — so, on top of the economy, on top of the price of gas, on top of the inflation, that’s why they voted for President Trump.”