US Naval Commander Bob Smith’s Congressional campaign logo Retired US Naval Commander and combat veteran, Bob Smith, is running in the 2026 Republican Primary for US Congress in California’s 24th district. Commander Smith now seeks to unseat the Democrat incumbent, US Representative Salud Carbajal. This week, The Gateway Pundit gained an exclusive interview with Commander Smith, in which Commander Smith elaborated on his platform and his background. “I grew up in a lower-income family in the Philadelphia area. Most of my teenage life I lived with my grandmother, because my dad was sent away to prison. My grandmother was a janitor at a local hospital. So, I wound up dropping out of school in 10th Grade, because really we couldn’t afford anything, in a bad…
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