The Mark Thompson Show

Amid a backdrop of grocery store items, Donald Trump gave a press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey property yesterday. He stayed on script for a little while regarding the economy, but the conversation devolved into personal attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump started remembering previous elections. At times, he seemed like an old man reliving his glory days. He had a lot t...

On the heels of former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley sending a message to Donald Trump via Fox News to stop silly attacks that voters don’t care about and focus on the issues, Trump almost succeeded. At a campaign stop in North Carolina yesterday, it seemed he was trying to focus on the economy. He couldn’t quite stop himself from going off on weird rants laced with anger, sexist i...

Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says she wants Trump to win, but that’s not going to happen if he keeps using race to attack Vice President Kamala Harris and complaining about crowd sizes at her rallies. Haley appeared on Fox News and said that what America sees is Harris inspiring hope and Trump dredging up the past. She’d like to see the Trump campaign focus more on Democrat...

The conversation on X between Trump and Elon Musk was plagued with technical issues from the start. Some are wondering if it was technical trouble that made Donald Trump sound slow and like he may have had a lisp or was slurring his words. Maybe it’s because he’s now pitted against Vice President Kamala Harris who is 20 years younger, but over the last couple of months with rambling speeches at ra...

Anxiety is creeping in for Trump’s campaign advisers. His public appearances, described by media reports as flailing ever since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, have his team worried. According to Axios, Trump’s anger and frustration continues to swell with each fresh poll that shows Harris ahead in key battleground states - even before her expected polling...

The latest reliable swing state polling will snap your ahead around. The Harris/Walz surge is real.   Mark discusses results and methodology in the polling. Something of a press conference (full of softball questions and minus any followup questions) at Mar-a-Lago turned into a bizarre rambling mess yesterday. Trump lashed out against VP Kamala Harris for drawing larger crowds at her rallies. He c...

Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance says he wants to debate Vice President Kamala Harris. Vance set his sights on going head to head with Presidential candidate Kamala Harris saying, “Here’s my offer to Kamala Harris. If she’d like to do a debate with me on August 13th, I’ll do it.” Vance went on to claim there is some type of uncertainty about who will actually be on the Democratic ti...

At a packed rally last night in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris presented her new running mate to the nation. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, she said, shares her values of kindness and inclusion, of having freedom over our own reproductive choices, of making sure America is safe with common sense gun laws, clean air and water and she called him a descent and good man. From leading a footb...

At or before a campaign rally scheduled for this evening in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris will announce she is choosing Tim Walz, the Minn. Governor, as her running mate.  Passing on Shapiro leaves questions to be answered but we'll discusses Walz's considerable assets and what lies ahead. Meantime, with a push to sway independent Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris and polling numb...

Trump seems to be feeling the poll numbers closing in on him. It’s still a tight race, but Vice President Kamala Harris is inching up in polling results and seem to have Trump feeling mighty uncomfortable. He also seems a little nervous at the prospect of debating Harris on any network except Republican friendly Fox. Add to that, some of Trump’s former cabinet secretaries are calling him dangerous...

The governors of Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Illinois, an Arizona Senator and a Cabinet Secretary are all going through a vetting process as Vice President Harris works to select a running mate. A decision is expected by this Tuesday when campaigning in battleground states gets serious. How important is it for a candidate to be from a swing state? Which one is most beneficial and what ot...

Between his insult of a black journalist and his strange racial attack on Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s visit to the National Association of Black Journalists didn’t go so well. From accusing Harris of “turning black” and accusing immigrants of taking away “black jobs” and then not being able to say that black jobs are any different from other jobs, Trump found himself in a real pickle. We...

With polls indicating a tight presidential race, the GOP is thinking strategy after election day. Some Trump election deniers are now in positions of power as election officials. They are part of a vote certification refusal movement. If valid elections are denied certification, it could cause confusion and chaos across the country. We’ll talk politics with our favorite Britisher, journalist Antho...

Girls Vs Boys? With women’s reproductive health on the line, perhaps it’s no surprise that the latest presidential polls are highlighting a widening gender gap. A recent New York Times/Siena College poll shows Harris with a 14-point lead over Trump among likely female voters (55% to 41%). Trump is attracting male voters. He has a 17-point lead among men (56% to 39%). The Quinnipiac, CNN and NPR po...

When you own the company, are you supposed to break your own policy by posting deep fakes and malicious content? Elon Musk helped promote a very misleading video using a voice altered to sound like Vice President Kamala Harris. He  retweeted the so called parody on X without disclosing that the content was manufactured.  CBS television and iHeart Radio Political Analyst Gary Dietrich will be in to...

Something about Friday on The Mark Thompson Show seems to make everyone happy. We start with a preview of politics and follow it up with a look at the wild world that is Friday Fabulous Florida! Then a full helping of politics! Trump agreed to a debate with President Biden set for September, but now that he’s facing the prospect of debating Vice President Harris instead, he’s backtracking. Is it b...

Trump could be in real trouble with the presidential race now shifting from President Biden to Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump’s own supporters are saying they see this as a real challenge. Some tell Politico they even think it’s possible that “women who are soft Trump backers will shift away from him.” It seems like Republicans are running scared. They are trying to keep the Biden/Harris mone...

Immediately, the energy of the 2024 presidential race took on a different feel when Vice President Kamala Harris stepped in. Money and volunteers rolled in rapidly, frightening GOP leaders. Right away, attacks began from Trump posting on social media that it wasn’t fair that he spent money campaigning against President Biden, to Republicans raising issues over the Biden/Harris campaign funding to...

GOP plans to go after Harris hard.  We share the plan as it sits now. While the Democratic National Convention is still weeks away, it appears that Vice President Kamala Harris has now secured the support of many more delegates than she needs to clinch the 2024 Democratic nomination for president. Add to that the swell of campaign contributions and a rush of campaign volunteers and the Harris for...

President Biden says he will finish out his term and withdraw from the race to continue on as president. Moments after he withdrew his candidacy, he endorsed his Vice President, Kamala Harris. Was it the right move? Is Harris all but assured to be the Democratic nominee? In the first hour we’ll discuss it with CBS television and iHeart Radio Political Analyst Gary Dietrich.  Hour 2 brings former K...

“People see the walls closing in,” that’s what one senior Democrat told CNN. The network is reporting that more than two dozen sources familiar with life inside the West Wing say there is widespread acceptance that President Biden remaining in the race is untenable. Trump took the stage last night at the RNC and while his speech was supposed to be unifying, he slipped back into his dividing rhetor...

With a chorus of Democrats suggesting President Biden withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, Vice President Harris is thought to be the next logical choice. New polling shows she may have an issue in swing states and she wasn't among the four potential candidates who performed best in a survey of voters. Our favorite Britisher Anthony Davis, journalist, host of Five Minute News and host on the...

Day two of the Republican National Convention was an attempt at party unity. Former Trump rivals Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswami all stood on stage in front of Trump in his decorated box seating area and bowed down. Where there was once criticism about Trump’s age and attitude now there is loyalty and support. Presidential historian and political analyst John Rothmann will stop by th...

The Republican National Convention is in full swing. Anti-trans and anti-immigrant messages filled the convention center on Day 1. Cheers for a bandaged Trump standing beside his new running mate JD Vance wrapped up the day’s schedule. The selection of Vance indicates Trump is going maximum MAGA which could alienate moderate voters. Pulitzer Prize winning author and investigative journalist David...

Organizers of the Republican National Convention this week say it will be bigger than ever. Trump is planning to rewrite his speech after gunfire at a rally struck him in the ear over the weekend. Following the shooting, Trump emerged with his fist high in the air in a show of strength. From January 6th to this latest violent act, is it a sign that politics has changed in America?  Gary Dietrich,...