The vice president also talked about your record, and one of the things I find interesting, you're actually calling for ICE agents to be at polling sites this November.

Yeah, so the bottom line is we have much bigger issues than that one.

But I, I do think that state and federal, state and federal and local law enforcement ought to work together on everything from immigration to drugs.

And unfortunately, this is a sanctuary state.

And so what they've done here is they've cut off the communication between local and state on one hand and federal on the other.

They cannot be at- in a polling place.

That's not what ICE does.

... 20 seconds or so, how's the polling look up there, and do you even trust the polls?

Well, do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself then, Robert?

Yeah, no worries.

Um, pinball.

Look, uh, I think I was first introduced to it, to an extent when I was, uh, uh, uh, a young 'un.

You know, in the early '80s, I think, uh, the parents were bowlers.

Up at the back of the bowling alley, you know, the arcade machines and pinnies there.

I, I was too young to play the pinnies, but definitely noticed them, um, and always remembered them.

Thanks, Rob.

And this is a big concern, especially to folks like you.

Yeah, so our campaign is thriving, but I will tell you to borrow from a Democrat, Tip O'Neill, all politics are local.

And in Maine, people want change.

I can't speak for other states, but we've got six or seven issues where people feel absolutely betrayed by the Democrats in power, by Governor Mills and Pingree, her sidekick, and even this Troy Jackson, who's now gonna run against Collins.

Look, we have some of the highest property taxes in the United States, and yet we're one of the poorest states We have very high income tax.

We have energy costs that top the nation.

They've done just stupid things when it comes to subsidizing things that cost us more, not less.

How much residual does that help someone like yourself based on some of the Democrat shenanigans and all of this craziness that's happening on that side of the aisle?

As we near our 250th birthday of this amazing country, best in the world, where do we stand on the world stage? Because if you turn on Commie News Network right now, they're going to tell you a whole different story, Bobby.

Yeah, you know, you hear everything here as the Republican nominee for governor in Maine, but my prior life, you're right, included not only 10 years Navy intelligence and being all over the world, but also being assistant secretary of state and training the police in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What Donald Trump has done is he has demonstrated what leadership really looks like.

I mean, both at our border and with counter narcotics, which was a big, big issue for me over the years, but also in just, you cannot deny that his leadership in the Middle East in particular has put us in a position where people respect again, not only our own protection of ourselves, but our protection of our allies in the region.

And we also are showcasing what it means to keep America safe, not only in the near term, not only at the border right now, but in the long term.

And knocking out Iran's nukes was a huge issue, as well as knocking out their long range ballistic and hypersonic missile capacity.

People don't realize that's what also happened.

So tell us about your race first.

I know the longer the title, the more important it sounds.

So anyway, the bottom line on ranked choice voting is it is a real conundrum.

It is an unconstitutional process.

that this all-Democrat state, understand they control the main Supreme Court, they control the constitutional officers, they control both chambers, and they control the governorship, has decided that they will foist on the people.

And yes, it originally came out of the people, but the reality is our founding fathers, and after the 13th and 14th Amendments, did not say we need a cascading set of preferences and we'll figure out behind closed doors how you ended up voting.

That's not what they said.

They said one person, one vote.

And yet, how long do you have to wait? What's your sense of the timing on this? And I'm trying to understand how to, so what, they now go back and find out who voted second and third for the, help me through it.

Um, are you, have you had conversations with the Trump administration? Are, are you vying for his endorsement?

You know, right now we're almost at the point where the state itself is the focus of our concern.

I would love his endorsement.

I've been down there multiple times.

I get along very well with his Department of Justice.

We are going to need their help up here in a whole bunch of ways.

But the, the defining issues up here, honestly, and my platform is very simple.

Have you closed that gap?

But the old what's next is where it always kind of gets bogged down and the word quagmire comes into play.

Yeah, I mean, I guess if history teaches us anything, it's that we would like to have short wars and they don't end up being short.

So at this moment, I think, let me, as you did at the top of the hour, David, say this was a decisive blow to a country that is essentially a radical religious tyranny that had two things going that we needed to stop.

One was a nuclear program.

And the other was long range ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

They had just tested a hypersonic missile, a cruise missile, perhaps at the ground level going incredibly fast and a ballistic missile into space and back down.

We could not allow that country to get to that point, given that they are the state sponsor, the leading state sponsor of terror.

Can we leave it up to Iran to choose its own destiny? Or should the United States be involved so that we're not back here 5, 10, 15 years down the road?

Okay, so what does this moment tell us about President Trump's America First foreign policy?

Yeah, you know, context is important with respect to Greenland.

This is a place that 56% of the people in the last poll wanted independence from Denmark.

It's a place where we have a base called Betivik, which is a space base.

It's a Navy base.

We probably only have 150 personnel there.

But during the Cold War, we had 6,000 there.

Just from talking to the Danish media and some of the people from Greenland at the White House this past week.

But what's your predictions for your great state and the rest of this country in the midterms?

Well, I would like to go back to the old phrase that as Maine goes, so goes the country.

We are up, my campaign is up double digits, which is remarkable in multiple polls.

We're up by 20 points in one poll.

We have a very strong message and it kind of reflects what I said earlier.

I keep it down to the tight sort of cut taxes, cut crime, and cut the nonsense.

But at the end of the day, I think Maine may be an example of how you take a blue state and turn it entirely red.

What's your response to that?

We-

Yes.

My name is Robert Charles.

I live in Brooklyn, in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and this is my fourth year-

Nice.

... with the Chorale, and I love harmonizing, uh, in voice and in spirit.

Is President Trump becoming the next president of peace?

I think he really is.

You know, my life history is 10 years as a Navy intelligence officer and I was assistant secretary of state and worked in the Reagan White House.

I've never seen anybody in my lifetime except Ronald Reagan, who was so determined to change the face of the world in a positive way.

And I would tell you that Donald Trump is becoming the president of peace.

I think Ronald Reagan should have gotten a Nobel Prize for bringing down the Soviet Union.

I think Theodore Roosevelt in some ways did what at the very beginning, what Trump is trying to do now.

But how are you being received, and what are some of the things that people are talking to you about?