U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Hoover) thinks the strong victory by former President Donald Trump in the Presidential election was a rebuke to the radical left in America.
Trump won the electoral college and popular vote on Tuesday, while his party also regained control of the Senate.
Palmer discussed the election results Friday on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program.”
“Well, I think there’s a simple answer to this, and that is the Democratic Party has become the party of extremes,” Palmer argued. “I mean, they’re the party that thinks it’s okay for men to play women’s sports, to go in women’s restrooms and showers, and that children can be given gender altering drugs without a parent’s knowledge. I mean, [this is] the Democratic Party that thought [it] was a good idea to leave our borders open and have this mass migration that has taken place over the last three years and nine months. And so they’ve become the party of extremes. And this is not a nation of extremists. We’re a center right nation.”
The congressman said Americans want “common sense” governance.
“What you saw with the breaking of the blue wall, the tearing down of the so called blue wall, is that our country, I think, wants common sense government,” he said. “They want national security. They want to get inflation down. They want to go about their lives, make a living, raise their kids and be able to afford to continue to live in this country.”
Palmer explained what he hopes Congress will be able to accomplish if Republicans win back the majority in the U.S. House.
“I think we’re going to pass a boatload of resolutions rolling back regulations. We did that the first time Trump was elected,” he said. “I think the first 14 or 15 bills we passed were all Congressional Review Act bills. We’re going to immediately work with the White House, with the Trump administration, to secure the border….And we’re going to address energy costs. Energy is the most inflationary commodity in the entire economy. Everything that people use, eat, or consume has an energy cost… And we’re also working to make permanent the tax cuts and Jobs Act, which is set to expire next year. If that were to expire, it would result in about a $4 trillion tax increase over the next 10 years.”
Palmer also said the election was a condemnation of the mainstream media in the country.
“I just think it’s the extremist positions that they took in the rhetoric,” he explained. “You had Kamala and her surrogates out calling Trump Hitler and saying that this was a threat to democracy. There were two assassination attempts on him. And I think so largely because of this insane rhetoric, and people didn’t buy that. You had every major network outside of Fox, every major mainstream media on board with them. It was like free advertising for her, yet you saw a mandate election.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee
