(NewsNation) — Republican Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan believes that Tuesday’s election results don’t hold the same value as the national election a year ago.
“I do think it’s a little difficult and maybe not just accurate to compare a national election one year ago with a three-state, one big blue city election yesterday and somehow say that they’re equivalent,” he told “On Balance.”
Jordan’s comments come after Democrats won big Tuesday in key state and local races across the country. New Jersey and Virginia voters elected Democrats Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger, respectively, over their Republican opponents in gubernatorial elections. Three Democratic justices were retained on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
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In Democratic-leaning California, voters approved a mid-decade congressional redistricting that could grant the party up to five more seats in the U.S. House.
And in New York, residents chose democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to lead the nation’s largest city.
At a Capitol Hill news conference Wednesday morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson downplayed Tuesday night’s election results, stating, “What happened last night was blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming.”
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Still, Mamdani’s victory in New York caused a stir for Republicans, who Jordan says are very concerned.
“Well, we should be, because a socialist won the mayor’s position in our largest city,” he said. “A socialist who says they want government-run stores? You talk about affordability, you talk about shortages and rationing, that’s what happens when you have government-run groceries.”
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Jordan did point out he doesn’t feel Mamdani’s win represents the thinking of Democratic Party members across the country.
“It’s just not. I talk to folks in the Fourth District of Ohio. That’s not how they think. That’s not what they believe. And they certainly don’t want a socialist representing their state and their political subdivision, whatever that may be.”
