The Mark Thompson Show

Fresh polling by NBC News shows Democrat Kamala Harris ahead of Republican Donald Trump by 5 points among registered voters. Their national polling has Harris leading 49%-44%. It’s still within the margin of error, but better for Democrats in the last NBC poll in July which had Trump over Biden by 2 points. Demographic data included in the poll is also very interesting. We’ll talk about it with CB...

North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson insists that he did not make a series of perverse comments on a porn website. CNN reports they have found a trove of comments made over the years that are pretty disturbing. In addition to being accused of racially vile comments, the African-American politician is also alleged to have commented that he gets sexually aroused by secretly watch...

New polling data shows support for Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is on the rise. Her support appears to be increasing both nationally and in the all important swing states. Mark joins in to discuss it. Are there two different scenarios come November for what happens to the legal cases pending against Trump? Sentencing in the New York state hush money case is on hold until after t...

Republicans had the chance to protect access to to IVF and require insurance companies to cover such fertility procedures. Instead, they chose to strike down the bill despite knowing that voters are watching reproductive issues closely. Ohio Senator and GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance didn’t even show up for the vote opting to attend a campaign rally in Michigan instead. It’s the second t...

Donald Trump has been distancing himself from Project 2025 saying he doesn’t know much about it, but a new video shows that he’s been in on it the whole time. In 2022, Trump spoke at the Heritage Foundation, praising them for laying the groundwork and making the plans for what he will do when “Americans give us a colossal mandate to save America. And that’s coming.”   We welcome Pulitzer Prize win...

Donald Trump has another reason to thank the Secret Service. Sunday, he was at his golf club in Florida when he had to stop playing before the 6th hole. That’s because his protection detail spotted the barrel of a rifle sticking out of a fence.  While the would be shooter didn’t get a chance to open fire, the Secret Service certainly did. The suspect  managed to speed away in a car, but was arrest...

That it is Friday the 13th seems appropriate given the horror show that the Trump campaign is putting forward. Yesterday at a rally, Trump continued to insist that immigrants are abducting people’s pets, though he did not say they were eating them this time. Meanwhile, when Trump surrogate Stephen Miller was asked to back up some of the awful things he was saying about immigrants with facts, he co...

Trump and Vance are slamming down on the MAGA gas pedal. Despite knowing Haitians are not eating house pets in Ohio, that President Biden won the last election, and that nowhere in America are fetal executions lawful, the GOP candidates continue to amplify lies. The campaign strategy seems to be - no matter how outlandish the statement, the more you spew something and the more people hear it, the...

The Harris campaign thought last night’s presidential debate was so successful, they’re looking for another round. They’d like to schedule a second debate. Vice President Harris seemed to know just how to trigger Donald Trump into going off on a series of rants. She also called him out on some of the more ridiculous lies. Even so, it was a mixed bag with Trump closing by pointing out that Harris h...

Looks like Trump might be scared of losing the debate. Much like he has for elections, he is laying the groundwork for wriggling out of coming away the loser before the event even starts. Every chance he gets, Trump is disparaging ABC as being biased against him. According to Politico, he has even accused ABC of giving Vice President Harris the questions in advance, without evidence of course. It’...

Trump is once again throwing around threats He took to his social media page to post a threat that he intends to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” during this election. Here’s the post:       “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so that this Depravity of Justice does not happen again....

Trump‘s mental decline has been on full display yet, unlike the spotlight that was shined on President Biden, the media seems to be looking away from Trump’s obvious cognitive issues. Case in point, Trump was speaking about child care yesterday and here’s what he said: “Childcare is childcare, couldn’t, y’know, is something, you have to have it in this country, you have to have it. But when you ta...

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are asking Trump about a suspicious 10-million dollar campaign donation during his last run for the White House. Whether Trump illegally accepted millions from the Egyptian government is also the subject of a secret Justice Department investigation. We welcome presidential historian and political analyst John Rothmann to the show to discuss.

It seems we can expect Trump’s insults to keep coming. Though his former rivals in the GOP have publicly stated that focusing on issues like the economy and immigration would be a better tactic than mud-slinging, Trump’s advisers see the only option as damaging Kamala Harris and keeping her on defense. According to the “Washington Post”, the attacks are in full force when it comes to campaign ads,...

Trump is getting weirder on his social media site. Lately, he’s been sharing Qanon Posts in addition to making offensive comments. The Qanon reposts are pretty eye opening. They include a ridiculous Qanon conspiracy that Trump is some kind a savior fighting the supposed “deep state”. He keeps posting Qanon slogans ad he passed around a sexist degrading meme about his female rivals. We’ll see what...

As Trump releases footage taken at Arlington National Cemetery in a campaign ad, some families are crying foul. On CNN, Maggie Haberman reported that she spoke to one family upset that their son, who committed suicide after serving several tours in the Middle East, had the front and back of his gravestone visible in the Trump ad. There is a federal law prohibiting filming in this section of Arling...

Donald Trump is facing a fresh indictment. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed against Trump on the same four counts of trying to overturn the 2020 election, but this time, given the immunity ruling from the Supreme Court, he did so without citing evidence that could potentially be covered by immunity. Will Trump’s re-indictment for an alleged coup attempt sway voters? We welcome journalist and host...

Democrats are trying to help voters in Georgia from having their votes held hostage by political games. The Democrats (national & local) with support from the Kamala Harris campaign, are now suing to stop new Georgia election rules that allow officials to delay the counting process and the certification of the vote. We’ll run it past Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist D...

Is Trump backing out of the presidential debate? A post on his social media platform indicated some second thoughts about meeting Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC next month. He went on the attack against ABC and asked “Why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network?”  He went on to disparage ABC hosts and stir up conspiracy theories. Trump previously agreed to the debate and n...

The final day of the Democratic National Convention featured back to back heavy hitters from Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to Gabby Giffords and Senator Mark Kelly, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and an emotional performance by P!nk, who brought her daughter on stage to sing “What about us.” The grand finale and history making moment came...

From Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to former President Bill Clinton to Oprah to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz accepting the Vice Presidential nomination, day three at the DNC was filled with energy and passion. Both Bill Clinton and Pete Buttigieg did not back down from speaking candidly about how America would look if Trump returned to the White House. There was a large focus on the event...

The second day of the Democratic National Convention was a complete party. The celebration carried on through the ceremonial roll-call (where Governor Gavin Newsom cast California’s delegate votes) onto the screen where Vice President Harris and Minnesota Governor Walz, standing before a massive crowd at a Wisconsin rally, were beamed into the DNC via satellite. Both Barack and Michelle Obama were...

The message on the first day the Democratic National Convention was one of moving forward and unity. Warriors Coach Steve Kerr spoke about not staying silent. AOC gave a passion filled speech making it clear the Democratic Party is one for all the people trying to make it in the world. Representative Jasmine Crockett and Senator Raphael Warnock delivered words of hope. Hilary Clinton brought down...

Trump‘s running mate JD Vance told Fox News Sunday that the Trump campaign is doing just fine. He says the fake media uses fake polls to convince Republican voters not to turn out to vote. It’s almost as amusing as their last allegation that crowds turning out for Harris rallies are created by AI. While blaming AI and Fake Polls may make the Trump campaign look silly, it also indicates they’re fai...