“Well that last point you made Ben­ny I think is is crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant 74 mil­lion amer­i­cans vote for pres­i­dent trump 11 mil­lion approx­i­mate­ly 11 mil­lion more than vot­ed for him in 16 of that 74 mil­lion over 70 per­cent think there is a major prob­lem this elec­tion they think it was stolen they think it was rigged when you have a third of the elec­torate in your coun­try who feel like an elec­tion was stolen right, that is a major prob­lem that in and of itself. I mean we want pres­i­dent Trump to win but that in and of itself the fact that a third of the elec­torate thinks there’s a major prob­lem in how our elec­tion was run the integri­ty of our elec­tion that that by itself should be the rea­son that we do an investigation”

“That’s a ways away,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Flori­da Repub­li­can anoth­er close Trump ally, said when asked if Trump should con­cede after next week. “There are mem­bers who believe there could be val­ue in hav­ing sub­stan­tive debate of what occurred in states with sub­stan­tial irreg­u­lar­i­ties,” he said. “I don’t believe that 10 hours of debate on that sub­ject would impair the union.”

“I know we have mem­bers who feel that way, feel very strong­ly about we should be debat­ing what took place in Penn­syl­va­nia,” Jor­dan said. “But, you know, you had all kinds of crazy things hap­pen­ing in Geor­gia, Michi­gan, Wis­con­sin, all these in Neva­da. … So every­thing you look at doesn’t make sense.”