Does Kamala Measure Up? | Bobby Charles on John Solomon Reports

Join John Solomon and Bobby Charles as they dive into the Democratic National Convention’s impact, Kamala Harris’s performance, and the alarming shift in economic and national security policies. Discover why Americans across the political spectrum are increasingly concerned and what this means for the upcoming election. Plus, get exclusive insights from AMAC and our mission to protect America’s future.

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John Solomon: All right, folks, welcome back from the commercial break. It’s Friday, but we’re going to do something special to spice up this Friday. We’re going to call this AMAC Friday. That’s because I was on the road this week and I missed our great opportunity to talk to my good friend, Bobby Charles, and all the good folks at the Association of Mature American Citizens.

But it’s a perfect day because Bobby can referee what we all saw on TV last night, or really what we all saw for the last four days on TV at the Democratic National Convention. Joining me right now, the one, the only, Bobby Charles. Bobby Charles. Bobby, good to have you on. I’ve always wanted to do that. I wanted to do that once.

Bobby Charles: I feel like I need to run to the center circle and fight the lions. I don’t know. 

John Solomon: Oh, that’s funny. You fight lions every day. That’s what I know about it. 

Bobby Charles: That’s right. That’s right. 

John Solomon: All right, so We had Kamala Harris, she introduced herself to the world and the night before Kamala Harris spoke, I thought Bill Clinton said something very important.

He said that the presidential election is the ultimate job interview for the ultimate job, the most important job in the world. And you got to tell people what you’re going to do. Did Kamala Harris hit that mark? Did he hit the mark that Bill Clinton set for her? 

Bobby Charles: it’s pretty bad when a former failed president sets a low bar, and you can’t even get over that bar.

I don’t know if it was Will Rogers or Mark Twain, but one of them said something about not opening your mouth and letting people assume the best instead of opening your mouth and letting them see the worst. the reality is that this ticket, Kamala Harris and Waltz, Tim Waltz, is an it’s a dangerously empty ticket.

one of the most dangerous things and people see it, they see it because it’s affecting their economy. It’s affect these economic ideas are pseudo Soviet there. at the very best wage and price controls were offered in by Nixon and by Carter in a very limited way. And they created long gas lines.

People couldn’t rationing. It was a horrible thing at their worst. They are implemented the way the Soviets did. So for economic policies, spend more tax. You make your dollars worth less, make the increased interest on your credit card grow, make the federal debt grow. Have no accountability. It’s a dead end economic policy, national security.

She doesn’t mention China. she blows past critical issues that are affecting everybody in the world with these sort of high minded nothingness is it’s like a dandelion fluff, it’s like, we’re going to somehow we’re going to, we’re going to make the world work with, we’re all going to say Kumbaya and make the world work in a way that allow us all to giggle the way she does.

No, it doesn’t work that way. The world is a ruthless. mean place. I’m sorry. We are a good country, which is what makes us a great country to paraphrase the Tocqueville. But the world is a mean and ugly place and the notion that you would put two bozos at the top of a ticket And imagine that’s better than the guy that couldn’t find his way off the stage.

Honestly, no. And I think what you’re going to see, John, is a slow disintegration of this ticket. This is the only convention in my lifetime, going back to Richard Nixon in 72, which is the first one I really paid any attention to, this is the first time ever. That the background real time polling suggests that the opposing candidate gained ground during the convention of the other party.

And what it tells me is that Americans, whether they’re old or young, whether they’re rich or poor, whether they’re, Previously traditional John F. Kennedy Democrats like Robert F. Kennedy, or if they are, moderates or if they are in some way, independent, all of them see the nothingness.

Here and it scares them. And that’s why, black young black men are in, Milwaukee and Detroit, in Philadelphia, in Atlanta, in North Carolina. when you look at the immediate polling and you break it down demographically, they’re saying we’re going for Trump because we’re not interested in being treated like, fodder.

and that’s the problem. there’s no, they’re there. 

Yeah, that’s a really, it’s really well said and you hit it right on the head. So Scott Rasmussen at the Neapolitan news service, did polling every day of the convention, the. Race ended where it started the week. they were tied 49, 49, no bump.

He says no bounce for the democratic national convention this week for Kamala Harris. That’s very important because normally, the convention catapults someone three, four or five points up. That didn’t happen. and he’s predicting that new Trump will probably stay in the lead over the next few weeks as people re resettle into where they were before the convention.

that’s rare. It’s rare to see someone not get the sort of bump that, people expect it. Why do you think it’s because they just didn’t get any meat on their bone? I think, 

so let me just unpack that one, one layer deeper. it’s doubly remarkable because the media, the press, the mainstream media was going out of their way to fawn and, pander.

And so when you’re throwing everything at. This, this effort to win back or to win, the center, which is what they’re trying to do and it’s failing. it’s not going to get any better. it’s fish after three days, it doesn’t get better. It, and what’s I see happening here.

It doesn’t mean that anybody should let up the pressure at all, but what I see happening is it multiple demographics, legal. Hispanic voters, black voters, young voters, suburban mother voters that they’re not all in, but they are way higher in their support for the Republican than they are for traditionally than they are for the Democrat.

And so it tells you that there’s something. It’s like a grip. It’s like a, it’s like a wheel spinning. it’s not catching anything. And so if you can end where you began in a, I actually have seen polls that suggest it was even worse for them, but if you can end where you began, you haven’t gotten anywhere because everyone, in the old days, it’s like trying to bring down a deer with birdshot, it just doesn’t work.

and so what happens is they’ve got a, they’ve got an environment here, John, in which they’ve built a card house and it’s all filled with these. empty notions, and when they try to fill in the empty notions, and they try to make up for a lack of integrity or experience, what happens is the things they’re pouring into that vessel are as bad, or worse, Then saying nothing.

and, when you propose essentially Marxist economics and destroying, destroying the public sector, when you do a private sector, when you talk about energy innovation that has already put just millions of Americans out of work, when you talk about policies that are going to stir inflation, when you elevate issues that are less important to people And you diminish issues that are more important, you’re on a losing track.

And actually, I think a lot of the traditional Democrats, including Democrats that were part of the political process, realize, the James Carville’s and company, realize this is a dead end street. Y’all are walk walking your party. Into a brick wall because Americans see that you would be walking them into a brick wall and they don’t want that.

John Solomon: That’s really well put there’s a moment later today where it appears we know robert f kenney is dropping from the race. It appears. He’s going to endorse President trump that will be an extraordinary moment, a sky on of one of the most famous traditional democratic family names in American history, going over to the other party.

if that happens, does that give license for other traditional Democrats who don’t feel like they belong in this sort of far left democratic party to do the same? 

Bobby Charles: Absolutely. You would always have had the Harry Truman’s, John F. Kennedy’s, Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn, that kind of Democrat would be scratching their heads.

I, up here in Maine, I talk to Democrats who are, traditional Democrats and they’re not happy. They weren’t happy before and they aren’t happy now. and so this gives top cover, as you say, to, when a Robert F. Kennedy Jr., says, I’m at the very least, I’m not, going to support what is the democratic ticket now and at the best ends up saying, I’m actually going to support these folks over here on the Trump team because they represent the kind of country that I would like to see.

And he’s a very independent minded guy, I’ll tell you something. I’m intrigued. I think what it will do is it will even draw more attention to him as a surrogate for Trump for the middle of the rotors. And, he’s a curious guy, whatever his background is, and it’s a little rough. He also, he’s a falconer.

He’s a, he’s an independent minded guy. The kind of guy that would tell you, Hey, I don’t want you, coming in here and taking my property, or I don’t want, he’s an independent minded guy. And, I’m a diehard old Reagan Republican. But there are a lot of people who remember his father and there was a lot of substance to his father.

and I guess I look at it. he was an attorney general, who died tragically, but he, if you read Schlesinger’s book about Robert Kennedy, you come away realizing this guy was a conflicted deep guy. So bottom line is, I think the Democrats are in big trouble. 

John Solomon: I think that’s exactly right.

and I think Democrats feel that way. They had a lot of joy just because they had a lot of joy that Joe Biden wasn’t on stage, but it doesn’t feel like they have a strong sense of it. And the Republican preference is still there post convention. Scott Rasmussen is the only person to have a poll out post her speech, but people going into the speech show Trump up one or two, and, I think at the end of the day, if there’s no bump from the Democratic convention, that’s usually a warning sign for The base of your party.

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John Solomon: All right folks, welcome back. More of our exclusive video with Bobby Charles.

I want to pull back for one last thing because you Sat on, the world stage. You worked at the State Department, you understood the important role that the United States plays in projecting strength and achieving peace through strength. we’re coming into the three year anniversary of the bombing at Abbey Gate, which was the apex of failure in the bungled withdrawal.

We don’t have a lot of answers. Congress hasn’t really done meaningful oversight that really got to the bottom of so much of this, but it’s pretty clear now. No matter what, the Congress gets ultimately out to the American people that the, this failure has had a domino effect that from it came the Russian invasion, come it can be Iranian aggression.

do you think people going into this election are able to connect the dobs that through appeasement didn’t actually 

Bobby Charles: Yeah. Peace through appeasement. Exactly. John. look, I, we left a hundred thousand allies there of whom 20, 000 had visas to come here. I just helped get a family out. it is a devastating turn for, for the history of America in the world.

Biden? Yes. Will people, do people understand it was a complete failure? I sure hope so. We lost more young Americans that day. That very day, we lost more Americans than we did in the preceding year. So it is an un, it is an unthinkable, in uniform. And I, it is an unthinkable turn of events. It is as if there were POWs in Nazi Germany and we just left them there.

it is as if we said to the Japanese after World War II, go ahead and do whatever you want. With, and we never went in and reformed the country. So the tragedy is quadruple. it was a terrible thing for the loss of individual Americans on that day. It was a horrifying signal to the world that America will run away from a terrorist regime and, will appease them.

It has now given them 300 million in addition. it was a complete failure third, because our mission in Afghanistan was to take the Taliban out. And not allow them ever to come back. And they did. And finally, it was a tragedy because we left all these allies on the ground who had pledged themselves and therefore their families to work with our military and our state department.

So if you were looking, honestly, in the grand scheme of things, the Biden people who did this should be prosecuted. they really, they stepped over an incredible line. It wasn’t just about deterrence. It was about betrayal. They betrayed. 20, 000 people who helped us for 20 years and had visas that would protect their families.

And those families are being hunted down and killed right now. So is it a horror? Yeah. Is it what the future of the Harris waltz crowd looks like? Yeah, it is. Because there’s no understanding that peace through strength is the only way. That you can conduct business in the world unless you’re going to just go to war.

John Solomon: And so many of our allies are beginning to wonder whether they’re going to have to go it alone because that projection of strength and the execution of strength just isn’t there. It’s just so remarkable. There’s one little thing I want to ask you about because I know you value truth. And, on Monday, we’re going to release some documents that we obtained, that were obtained through FOIA that, show that, as John.

Kirby, then the chief spokesman for the defense secretary under Joe Biden was telling people there was, it’s not chaos. We have an orderly evacuation of Afghanistan. His own briefing documents, the Pentagon’s own documentation used the word chaos 18, 20 times, like in a matter of a couple of days. When something like that comes out, it’s a little, it’s a little anecdote, right?

But it’s an anecdote that a person. Overseeing the men and women in uniform, in uniform. He himself having served, I think he reached the rank of Admiral John Kirby did, if you can’t tell the American people the truth of what’s sitting in your own documents or sitting in the defense department’s own documents, and you decide to just impose a political spin, is that one of the places where we’ve always assumed the Pentagon is supposed to stay above politics?

The FBI is supposed to stay above politics. How, damning is it that the Pentagon spokesman couldn’t tell us what his own documents. We’re saying, 

Bobby Charles: well, John, what that tells me is that there is a bold policy of lying to the American people for political purposes. And I would tell you that it’s not just disgraceful.

It’s a betrayal of the public trust. We vest our trust in those who know where more significantly than at the Pentagon. having worn a uniform for 10 years, I will tell you that even at my low rank, and I finished as a Lieutenant Commander, you. You feel, or you should feel that you represent the American people and that there’s a kind of a higher order that you’re holding yourself to, that you are honor requires not just for the moment, but in honor of all those who served before that you be truthful and honest and direct.

and if you’ve made a mistake, you admit it to the American people and you get after it. Now, there are war fighting reasons why information is sometimes. Held back, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about here is a chaotic political event. The denial of which is essentially a lie to the American people.

So I’ll be honest with you. There are very few things, John, that really get me upset. there are a lot of things that they’ve done wrong. They’ve opened the border and that upsets me. They’ve screwed up our currency. That upsets me. They have catered to China and taken money on the, under the table from China.

That upsets me. But. they’ve screwed up the Middle East and they’ve screwed up Russia. But what really, kicked all this into gear was an utter and complete failure and then denial of responsibility, zero accountability for having, really screwed up a situation that had we stayed just a little bit longer, that generation that we had trained for 20 years wouldn’t have been pursued and killed.

By the Taliban, but would have been in charge and would have been able to put the Taliban in their place. So it’s a double, triple, quadruple tragedy. And I just think John, any American who doesn’t see that and these other issues as tragic and correctable. that’s the good news is they are correctable.

That’s why we have elections at the state level. And at the federal level, if anyone who looks away from this is really in a state of denial, and I would say to people, none of us are, do well being in a state of denial. we, we have to take the hard choices. And what that means is I don’t care whether people.

Like or dislike individually, the Republicans or even a more high integrity Democrats somewhere in the country that is distinguishing themselves from this administration. But this administration is a, I don’t know how to describe it, John. it’s, there’s no integrity. it’s a steaming mess.

Yeah, 

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I’m sorry I missed you on Wednesday, but I’m telling you, you saved your best for Friday. this was a great conversation that we’re heading into a solemn weekend. Remembering the sacrifices at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. It was really great to get your take on things. 

Bobby Charles: I appreciate it, John.

And I would just encourage people, go to AMAC. us and buy, get a membership for five of your best friends, because honestly, I will tell you, I have never, not for one day, have I regretted anything to do with my association with AMAC. And every day I have reasons to celebrate, whether it’s them helping at the legislative level statewide, whether it’s getting the word out, whether they’re just unbelievable writers and the, The interviews that Rebecca does and it’s just an extraordinary organization and you’re part of it.

You’re, woven into it. they have a bootcamp training going on, next month and it’s just, there’s so much great stuff. And so it’s, like, it’s a, and you get stuff for, huge discounts on things that you need. 

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Bobby Charles: Yeah. It is. It really is. So I encourage people, just go do it and you’ll feel better about yourself and people will thank you. 

John Solomon: Yeah. And you’re joining a community of people that are just so amazing, true patriots, 2. 1 million and growing every day. Let’s get that to 2.

2 next week. Let’s go guys. Let’s go sign up today. Let’s go make a difference. All right, Bobby, we’ll be back in touch, next week. We’re looking forward to it, we’ll be back on our normal Wednesday, but thank you for some great analysis of what happened at the DNC and the great, Solemn reminders of what we ought to remember about Afghanistan this very solemn weekend.

Great to have you on my friend. 

Bobby Charles: Thank you, John.

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