AMAC, Just the News announce 2024 Election Townhall interview series

The Association for Mature American Citizens (AMAC) – one of the nation’s largest grassroots organizations for Americans over 50 – is partnering with the Just the News to host a series of townhall interviews in October with top presidential candidates that will air on the fast-growing Real America’s Voice television network.

The first interview is slated to air Thursday, October 5 at 6 p.m. ET with business entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, the youngest of the GOP presidential candidates, and will be followed the next evening with a conversation in Mar-a-Lago, Fla.  with former President Donald J. Trump. Additional interviews will follow throughout the month.

AMAC CEO Rebecca Weber will join Just the News Editor in Chief John Solomon in interviewing the candidates about their positions, with some of the questions coming directly from AMAC members.

“We are thrilled to speak directly with the top presidential candidates and to hear their plan to address the national challenges that are critical to AMAC members,” Weber said. “This will provide an opportunity to have in-depth conversations on issues such as the economy, border security, healthcare, Social Security, and social issues that are often largely overlooked by the mainstream media and even the Republican debates. We won’t be focused on gotcha questions—we will be focused on the real issues that concern hardworking Americans and American seniors.”

Solomon said the interviews will give a chance for viewers to dig deep into substantive issues in an election often dominated by soundbites and personalities.

“AMAC is one of the most influential grassroots groups in America, and its millions of members have a large stake in the issues at the heart of the 2024 election, from the future of Medicare and Social Security to the porous southern border that is now afflicting every community in America with drugs, crimes and depleted resources,” Solomon said.

“I am excited to partner with AMAC, Real America’s Voice and the candidates to create these conversations to help educate voters before they cast ballots in a few short months,” he added.

Real America's Voice said the townhalls afford Americans a conversation often denied them in traditional news media coverage of the 2024 election.

"As the first GOP 2024 primaries and caucuses kick off in Iowa in just over 100 days from now, we are pleased to present this candidate interview series hosted by our partners, Just The News and AMAC," said Howard Diamond, CEO of Real America's Voice. "Though President Trump is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination, it's important that viewers gain insights from these interviews they likely won't get anywhere else in the media."

The interviews can be viewed on the Real America’s Voice television network available on channel 219 on Dish Network, channel 240 on Pluto and the Real America Voice’s apps on Roku, Android and Apple devices. The townhalls will also be posted on the AMAC and Just the News Web sites.

Here is more background on the hosts:

Rebecca Weber is the CEO of the Association for Mature American Citizens (AMAC), the premier conservative grassroots organization for Americans over 50. Founded in 2007 by her father, the late Dan Weber, Rebecca helped grow the organization from a brilliant idea into a two-million-plus member association. AMAC is now the conservative alternative to AARP and is the fastest-growing conservative group in America.

As editor-in-chief of the AMAC Magazine, Rebecca has grown the publication to reach more than 1.7 million American households bimonthly. She also hosts the Better for America podcast to hear from leading conservatives on the most important issues facing our nation. She is the president of the AMAC foundation, serves on the board of AMAC Action, and is a member of the Texas Border Coalition.

In addition to her role as CEO of AMAC, Rebecca serves as president and CEO of Hometown Insurance Agency of Long Island and Hometown Firefighters Services, the leading provider of retirement accounts and benefits for volunteer firefighters in the state of New York, Virginia and Connecticut. 

John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and digital media entrepreneur who serves as Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News. Before founding Just the News,  Solomon played key reporting and executive roles at some of America’s most important journalism institutions, such as The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and The Hill.

Solomon's executive experience includes helping to build the successful Hill.TV video platform as the newspaper’s executive vice president and serving as Editor and Vice President for Content and Business Development at The Washington Times, where he oversaw the transformation of the company’s content, audience and revenue strategies.

Beyond his executive roles, Solomon has continued his role as one of the country’s most impactful investigative reporters, breaking stories that have resonated from the campaign trail to the White House and across the globe.

Solomon began his career working for two decades at The Associated Press, where he became one of the youngest news editors in the cooperative’s history at age 22 and rose to become the No. 2 executive in its Washington bureau. His award-winning investigative stories won wide acclaim for exposing what the U.S. government knew about terrorism threats prior to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.