Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Thursday that Democrats have handed their party to its socialist wing and will pay for it in the midterms. He also argued that voters outside New York and California are rejecting that message.

On "Carl Higbie: FRONTLINE," Gill argued the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt is gone.

"This is the party of Zohran Mamdani and AOC," he said, referring to New York City's democratic socialist mayor and progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

"This is the party that runs on a platform of hating America, hating the institutions that built this country, and having disdain for its own people and its principles," he said, adding that when Democrats try to "run on a national stage in areas that are not New York or liberal California, they're going to lose and we're [Republicans] going to win."

The remarks came two days after three candidates backed by Mamdani, two of them Democratic Socialists of America members, swept New York congressional primaries, ousting Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat and winning the open 7th District seat.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., tried to close ranks Wednesday on MS NOW's "The Briefing."

"I think for us as House Democrats, we're just hopeful that everybody recognizes once we get through this primary season that the enemy is [President] Donald Trump and MAGA extremism," Jeffries said.

Gill dismissed Jeffries's characterization.

"Neither one of those are winning messages," he said.

"What the American people want is sanity in their government. They want a government that's actually looking out for them, not looking out for foreigners. Who cares about the quality of life for the American people, not about radical woke ideas that they want to shove down the American people's throat."

The contrast heading into the midterms, Gill said, "is incredibly clear."

Democrats are "running candidates in New York who are talking about eradicating Western civilization," he said, while Republicans under Trump are "working to make life better for the American people, to keep our borders secure, to deport illegal aliens, to make our community safer, to bring down the cost of living."

The motive is structural, he argued.

"Their goal is not to look out for the American people. It's to totally transform the American way of life and totally upend America's social system. And they believe that socialistic policies are the way to do that," Gill said, calling it "the arm into private life of every American person" and the means by which "Democrats who they believe they'll be in control, can have control over the American people."

"Voters time and time again, cycle after cycle, have rejected" it, he said.

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