Robinson is the first African American to hold the office of lieutenant governor in the state and caught the public's eye at a Greensboro City Council meeting, when he defended the Second Amendment.
Fox News host Dan Bongino asked Robinson what politically motivated him.
"Well, what honestly pushed me into it was something that someone said to me at work about 'talk.' They said talk's not going to do anything," Robinson said.
"I said, there's nothing you can do about it. You can go down there and talk, but that's not going to get anything done. And I reminded that person that, you know, the revolution in this country didn't start with the ’shot heard round the world' - it started with ’talk.’ Friends and neighbors talking to each other about ideas like independence and liberty and freedom and establishing our own nation. And so it starts with a conversation" said Robinson.
Robinson spoke at the North Carolina Republican Party State Convention last Friday where he discussed topics such as
Bongino noted that the Republican party doesn't have a "message problem," but rather a "messaging problem."
"Lower taxes, health care, freedom, school choice. These are all popular things when people hear about them," Bongino said.
The Fox News host continued to note that Robinson's speech to the North Carolina Republican Party State Convention addressed the dignity of work, and that "nothing in Republican messaging ... addresses that."
"One of the things in this nation, apart from any other nation, is the American work ethic," Robinson said.
Robinson noted that for decades, people have denigrated the American work ethic, saying "we see a strong vein of that happening right now from our federal government where we are actually paying people not to go to work, which is ridiculous."