9 Republicans are running for House speaker. Only 2 of them voted to certify the 2020 election

In Washington, Nine people entered the race for the position of House Speaker after House Republicans withdrew Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, as their contender on Friday. 

However, only two of those legislators supported the certification of the 2020 election, which has several Republicans unsure about where to place their allegiance in the speaker race. 

Following the removal of previous Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, earlier this month, House Republicans have declined to unite around a single candidate and choose a new speaker. Despite having three rounds of votes on the House floor, Republicans' support for Jordan declined with each passing vote.

Representatives Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, Rep. Jack Bergman of Michigan, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania, and Rep. Gary Palmer of Alabama are among the nine contenders vying for the position of speaker.

After voting to validate the 2020 election, Emmer and Scott both issued comments denouncing the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021. A handful of supporters of former President Donald Trump attempted to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election and President Joe Biden's win during the disturbance. Congress "does not have the authority" to ignore state election results, according to Emmer at the time.

"I think that by doing this, we are undermining the state-based electoral system that is the cornerstone of our Republic," he stated.

In all three speaker elections, Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colorado, voted for Emmer despite his strong opposition to Jordan being speaker because to his refusal to accept that Trump had lost the 2020 election.

In a statement from 2021, Scott also expressed his belief that his choice "to support the Electoral College fulfills my sworn oath to the Constitution."

The other contenders, which mostly targeted the outcomes of Arizona and Pennsylvania, voted to reverse the election results. These candidates included Hern, Donalds, Bergman, Johnson, Sessions, Meuser, and Palmer. Congressmen 147 in number opposed the 2020 race's certification.

A few of those legislators demanded that the election's legal challenges be resolved before the results were officially declared. At the time, Hern, for instance, declared that he stood "with the millions of Americans across the country who share deep and legitimate concerns about the integrity of our election system."

In the 2020 election, there was not a lot of fraud, even in crucial swing states like Pennsylvania and Arizona.