Jim Pfaff Says Republicans Should Defend Data Centers and Run on the Tax Cuts

Rick Trader welcomed listeners back to the Conservative Commandos Radio Show with Sharron Angle and introduced Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff.

Trader said the midterms were close and Republicans needed a closing argument. He started with data centers, the issue he said Democrats wanted front and center.

Welcome Back, and Why Vote Republican

Trader introduced Pfaff as president of the Conservative Caucus, a former chief of staff for two congressmen and for the Colorado House Republican Caucus, founder and executive director of Americans for Prosperity in Colorado, and president of the Colorado Families Institute.

He then asked the question he wanted the hour to answer: why vote Republican now, and which issue puts them over the top. Democrats had made data centers that issue, he said, and he thought the attack was backfiring.

Excited About Data Centers, and the Power to Run Them

Pfaff said a coordinated, well-funded effort cast data centers as the great evil, partly through climate alarmism Democrats had pushed in earnest for two or three decades. Trump, he said, reversed the regulatory structure from Obama and Biden and, to some extent, Clinton and Bush, and cut off climate money that had been funding the left along with NGO money such as USAID.

Data centers became the next target, and he thinks that panic is dwindling. Some Republican candidates handled it well. His own view is the opposite of the attack: “I’m excited about data centers. I’m excited about AI.” The risks, he said, resemble the risks of the early internet.

High compute makes heat, and cooling will be hard for some local governments. He called that a fair municipal concern, and one already being dealt with. The same heat means heavy energy use, and people notice it when electrical prices rise and they turn on the lights.

Trump pulled back rules so industrial plants, including data centers, can make their own electricity. Pfaff said that investment will take many of these projects off the grid. Commercial power is expensive because of its intensity, and industrial customers are often more reliable than houses, so self-generation rebalances the system.

Climate rules had been so tight that plants could not produce their own power. Phone companies, including the Bell companies, always made their own energy and stayed off the grid, as did many industrial plants, until climate policy pushed commercial producers onto the grid. Trump is changing that, he said, and people are still processing it.

Gas Prices, the Tax Bill, and a 21 Percent Warning

Data centers did early harm, Pfaff said, and they are not a discussion point now. Republicans need contrast and hope. The contrast he offered was gas.

if you think gas prices are bad now, just wait until Democrats control things.

Democrats in control will not help gas prices, he said. Incomes are rising for all Americans at a pretty significant pace, even where some costs still hurt. “Every Democrat voted against the one big beautiful bill which kept the Trump tax cuts in place.” “Otherwise, you’d have had the largest tax increase in American history.”

No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, and no tax on overtime, he said, matter to the middle class and lower middle class most hit by gas prices. Be honest that gas prices are bad. He was not excited about the Iran war, but other numbers are great. “If you change course now, you’re going to go to 21% inflation eventually if we give Democrats control.” That, he said, is a useful closing argument.

A Communist-Islamist Coalition and the DSA

Asked about a red-green alliance, and about France, Pfaff said the phrase will not be understood and that France can only be alluded to. He compared it with the late 2025 No Kings riots, particularly in Los Angeles. The plain version, he said, is this: “there is a communist Islamist coalition that is developing in the Democrat Party,” with literal communists on the ballot, and that is the Democratic Party.

The DSA promotes a communist agenda, including getting rid of the U.S. Senate and putting the presidency and the courts under the House. He called that a Politburo of the Russian and Chinese sort, one that takes liberties and leaves no way to counter it. No significant Democratic leader is rejecting the platform, he said. “They are literally going to overthrow the American Republic if they ever get real control,” and that is what happened under Joe Biden.

In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed says he is not a DSA member but is listed as endorsed by them, and he is not rejecting what they stand for. Hassan Piker, a DSA guy, was his biggest bud going into the primaries. Pfaff told voters to remember Zohran Mamdani in New York and three DSA members who won Democratic primaries for Congress, and to ask if they want them running the show.

He started to cite a poll, said it was not Marist, and then could not name the pollster. What he remembered was a generic ballot even between Republicans and Democrats only by modeling a 2024-style turnout. Trump voters who are unhappy should still hear that Trump is winning in many areas, that staying home means a nightmare, and that showing up in an off-year will make a difference.

If Republicans Win: Unrest, War Powers, and Treason

Trader asked what follows if Democrats lose. Pfaff said to expect insurrectionist behavior, some visible and some not. He pointed listeners to X, and to Data Republican, @DataRepublican, who he said is posting videos of a literal insurrection plan underway for months.

TDS, he said, has Democrats believing Trump is a fascist Benito Mussolini figure. He has not been. He follows the law and court rulings, including in the Iran war. Pfaff’s former boss Thomas Massie filed impeachment papers on Pete Hegseth, which Pfaff called the stupidest thing he has seen, because Trump followed the War Powers Act, stayed inside 60 days of hostilities, and informed Congress.

Trump’s executive orders put back legal standards Joe Biden overturned through many dozens of orders, and he cut regulation by the rules. A fascist who wanted no regulation, Pfaff said, could have wiped the rules out at once. Because critics call him a dictator, they claim a right to undermine him and have said they want to coax him into the Insurrection Act.

They say they are coordinating with Democratic governors to undermine presidential authority and take the country from Trump. He tied the Los Angeles riots, the George Floyd riots, and the data-center campaigns to that effort, often well funded with foreign money. “in my opinion, it’s treasonous.” Some people committed treason, some are insurrectionists, and some are violent. Former USAID employees and former officials, he said, have worked for months on how to take Trump down win, lose, or draw on November 3rd.

Not a Blue Wave, and Michigan

After the break, Trader said Trump’s rally pace, day after day, should keep anyone from blaming him if Republicans fall short, and he asked whether that blunts a blue wave. Pfaff said it will keep the election from being a blue wave, and he agreed Trump should not be blamed in any significant way.

The Iran war was a political risk and a fair issue, he said, and it is not what the election stands or falls on. Democrats are at their lowest approval in modern polling history. Americans do not like them. The DSA ick factor is real, and Americans do not trust them.

In Michigan, the Black community does not like Abdul El-Sayed. That may put Mike Rogers over the top by somewhere between 3 and 5 points, and it could be more if that community shows up as it seems to be operating. Young Black males, who in 20-plus percent numbers voted for Trump in 2024, are tired of how they have been treated, do not want the Muslim Brotherhood, and do not trust El-Sayed.

Democrats offer no specific solutions, he said. They say Trump is bad and repeat affordability. Some people will blame Trump for gas and other costs they do feel. Many voters know it was a lot worse under Joe Biden. Asked if Republicans are pushing that hard enough, Pfaff said no.

Refining Capacity, Diesel, and First-Year Expensing

Pfaff agreed prices were going to rise, and he called refining capacity a real challenge, probably a bigger issue in the Iran war than the war itself. Someone had recalled $1.50 gas after COVID. In February of 2021, advising a Chicago campaign and driving from his home in Bloomington in an F-250 with a 6.4-liter diesel, he paid about $2.15 to $2.40. By the end of March or early April he paid over $4.

Most Biden actions had no immediate effect. Producers knew supply would drop, and it did. U.S. production fell very low and the country was behind Russia. He thinks it was behind Saudi Arabia for a time. Now, he said, the U.S. produces more oil by far than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined.

Production rose late in the Biden administration and never got near today’s level. Trump’s wins lay a foundation for later growth, including trillions of dollars in business investment. Small and medium businesses, and big companies, can expense technology and manufacturing investment in the first year because of the one big beautiful bill. Watch employment growth over the next year or two from that, especially LLCs and S corps.

Almost every current economic problem began in the Biden administration, and many have been reversed. Gas prices are back where they are, and that is bad. Republicans should say so. The other things are working, and levels have been pretty flat since Biden left, set against what built up while he was in office.

Christian Voters, Shepherds for Sale, and 2028

Trader pressed him on Christians who sit out elections. Pfaff said he was in the middle of the Christian right’s growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and that it mattered especially in congressional elections. Republicans were deep in the woods for 40 years before 1994. Christian conservatives were a significant part of taking Congress back and holding it, he thinks, all the way until 2006.

That Republican Congress was a radical change. Increasingly secularist Democrats, he said, funded efforts to change Christian minds. Megan Basham documents this in Shepherds for Sale. He is acquainted with her, not a close friend, and they stay in touch.

Basham shows Soros-funded groups, Soros being an atheist, plus radically pro-abortion, pagan, or secularist groups putting money into church organizations. Russell Moore, who used to run the Ethics and Religious Liberty Coalition of the Southern Baptist Convention, was pushed out for progressivism. Pfaff debated Phil Vischer, founder of VeggieTales, in a private debate about a year and a half long and in some public debate. They push philanthropy through government, plus climate activism and creation care.

He sent listeners to theconservativecaucus.com. On Christians and voting, he will work this deeply over the next couple of years into 2028 because it has to change. A small group of Christians is active, and “it is unbiblical that they will not engage further.”

Key Takeaways

• Data centers: Pfaff is excited about data centers and AI, and says Trump’s rule changes let plants make their own electricity and leave the grid.
• The tax vote: Every Democrat voted against the one big beautiful bill, which kept the Trump tax cuts and blocked what he called the largest tax increase in American history.
• Gas and 21 percent: Gas prices are bad now, he said, and giving Democrats control leads to 21 percent inflation.
• The DSA: He described a communist-Islamist coalition, a House-as-Politburo program, and three DSA primary winners headed to Congress.
• Michigan: Black voters’ dislike of Abdul El-Sayed may put Mike Rogers ahead by 3 to 5 points.
• Christian turnout: He called further disengagement unbiblical and said he will press Christian voting into 2028.