Brooks says effort to get House to declare Trump winner similar to move by Iowa House candidate

GOP Rep. Mo Brooks said Monday that he'll attempt to ask the House to do for President Trump what Iowa Democratic House candidate Rite Hart is attempting to do for herself – bypass the courts and use a 1969 federal statute get the lower chamber to declare her the winner.

Hart lost to her Republican opponent by just six votes and is trying to bypass Iowa courts to win her race. 

Brooks, of Alabama, also intends to bypass the courts, by challenging the Electoral College on Jan. 6.

He is defending his challenge by saying the amount of illegal votes by non-citizens is what allowed Democrat Joe Biden to come out ahead in the Nov. 3 presidential race.

Brooks said on "Just the News AM" that the evidence is "overwhelming" and "compelling," arguing that it is his job as a judge and as a juror to decide whether the election is justified in swearing in Joe Biden or if there were flaws.

"The result is one conclusion: Donald Trump won the Electoral College if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens are counted," Brooks told show host Carrie Sheffield. "It is our job and duty to subvert voter fraud and election theft."

The difference with the Hart situation, he said, is that she doesn't have overwhelming evidence to support her claim that she is the winner.

Brooks acknowledged that courts have a role in the process but said Congress has the final say and judgement on election results for the House, Senate and president.