The Ron Show

Between former state senator Jason Carter (his "Paw Paw," former President Jimmy Carter waiting to vote for Kamala Harris), former First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff , oh and that raucous "roll call" vote featuring Lil Jon for Georgia, day three of the Democratic National Convention was a show unlike any before it. Let's review the highlights togethe...

Janelle King, one of the maligned and newly-seated "MAGA 3" Georgia Elections Board members, panned the idea of insisting Georgia revert to using hand-marked paper ballots, saying "we are altering how the election is being conducted" - as if it say ditching Dominion machines is an unnecessary last-minute alteration Who says irony isn't dead? Despite concerns from the left a...

Personal anecdote last night I was involved in a scuffle where a guest in our condo building got belligerent and unruly. He'd had a long day of drinking and was wandering the building and making some residents anxious and nervous. Some neighbors and I tried corralling him to guide him back to whatever unit he was staying in, and the guy got physical. My 8:45pm call to 911 likely caught it all...

It seems America's fixation with Donald Trump has worn thin; his shtick is no longer attracting record crowds or ratings, and in the month since Kamala Harris became his general election opponent, his approval numbers have plummeted. While the "Harris honeymoon" has shown few sings of abating, one thing seems apparent: the Harris-Walz campaign is content to "let Donald be Donald...

Bankrate crowned Georgia the state with the highest "hidden" costs of car ownership , recently. Here in Atlanta, you have to add "time spent in the car" as one of those hidden costs, given the gridlock we deal with getting to and from work or running our personal errands. Then you have Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens ... who has a pivotal role in whether the city (and region) take...

There have been any number of "(demographic subset) for Harris" Zoom rallies in recent weeks, but last night's "Republicans for Harris" Zoom gathering - which included former Georgia Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan - rallied more than 60,000 viewers. It was less about fundraising and more about preserving democracy and tabling policy divisions for future days to come. Okay, so th...

I've tried not to spend too much time (personally or otherwise) on the audacious claims of "stolen valor" aimed at Governor Tim Walz by the (get this) Donald Trump presidential campaign. The "Cadet Bone Spurs" camp has something to say about military service, and - well - it's the one thing giving JD Vance relevance (or is it?) Even Georgia Insurance Commissioner John K...

This week - and for the foreseeable future anyway - residential real estate agents & REALTORS will be altering the way they do business. CNBC's Diana Click explained why earlier this year, and a Chicago TV sit-down with a closing attorney and broker/agent sort of gives you a proper sense where (and why) the industry's changing. Did I mention I'm a residential REALTOR? Well I am, an...

'Atlanta Voice' editor-in-chief Donnell Suggs joined me Friday to give us a sense where black voters' minds seem to be from his vantage point after a break-neck month of change. In particular, we discuss Donald Trump's disastrous sit-down at the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) conference in Chicago. We share our thoughts on Donald's just-as-breathtaking pr...

The Georgia Election Board - now with election denialists - wants to (again) look into Fulton County's 2020 "curiosities." Ya know what? I say go for it. As my (returning) guest today - Marilyn Marks (VP and executive director of the Coalition for Good Governance ) believes, I don't think there'll be a change in Georgia's outcome (and we know it wouldn't alter the Pre...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz indeed was the choice VP Kamala Harris made (as I asserted should be the case back on July 29th) to be her running mate, and his first test - accepting and giving his first stump speech - didn't disappoint. [ Transcript here ] Well, the New York Times editorial board mostly approved , anyway, but a raucous crowd of 12,000-plus in Philadelphia sopped it up. Near-imme...

Chitra Ragavan , C-suite tech executive, strategic advisor, executive coach and award-winning journalist , authored "Why Kamala Harris needs a 'competent' white man to win" for The Hill recently, and the headline drew me in. Naturally, I asked if she'd join me shortly before Kamala Harris chose a (more than) 'competent white man' in Tim Walz to be the VP nominee for t...

I won't filter my exuberance in watching as Donald Trump remains consistently "Trumpy," just as he was Saturday afternoon in the same - albeit less full - venue Kamala Harris held a raucous rally just days ago. Trump spent more time attacking Governor Brian Kemp - and Kemp's wife, Marty - than he did his ballot opposition, and local Republicans are anything from perplexed to flat...

Kinda ... "curious" ... that Georgia's school superintendent Richard Woods took more than a week to reveal why he pulled state funding for AP African Americans studies . Turns out its the state's two-year old "divisive concepts" law. What's funny about that is governor Brian Kemp - who signed the law - wasn't aware that was Woods' rationale. We know that bec...

When CNN's conservative stalwart says "He (Donate Trump) crapped the bed today," you know the former President managed to embarrass himself (if he had self-awareness, anyway) ... and that's definitively what happened at his sit-down with three black female panelists at the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) gathering in Chicago Wednesday. Hear the blow-by-blow...

The Georgia Secretary of State's "timely" rollout of a "voter cancellation portal" isn't garnering many headlines (yet) but it should send alarm bells to anyone concerned about voter disenfranchisement and hackery. Hell, it feels like a "dinner bell" to people and organizations constantly challenging voters' rights. My guest - Marilyn Marks with the Coalit...

What Donald Trump and JD Vance are saying on the campaign trail or in TV interviews doesn't match what Vance, at least, is telling donors about the state of the race now that Kamala Harris is atop the Democratic Party ticket. The Washington Post obtained audio of JD telling donors they got sucker punched. Trump's complained on Truth Social the Republican Party should get reimbursed - get t...

What's trending suddenly is the theme Democrats are hammering - that Donald Trump and JD Vance are, in a word "weird." Goodness knows they cough up all the examples to bolster the argument - and you know I've a few to share just from the weekend. New polling and favorability data is out and, to be sure, Vice President Kamala Harris has momentum - startlingly so given her prior di...

Earlier this week, Georgia's state schools superintendent Richard Woods put his foot in his mouth when he announced the state would no longer be funding AP African American Studies. Folks were outraged . Folks ( the Republican governor included ) wanted to know why he made that decision. Well, he reversed course (somewhat) but activists were still outraged, so I reached out to Atlanta-based pu...

President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office last night, with his family literally alongside him out of camera shot, to explain why he chose to exit the 2024 Presidential race. The speech? Flawless. The execution? Nearly so, minus one thing I'd have personally enjoyed seeing from POTUS. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris has hit the ground running with pitch-perfect campa...

Atlanta-based Delta Airlines is having a harder time than most overcoming the 'Crowdstrike' update glitch, and now the Department of Transportation wants answers after some intense passenger struggles this past week. All this has me exasperated as to why we (you and I) let ourselves get to this point. Folks are sleeping on Atlanta's airport floors - in a travel "hub" with no...

What must it have been like for a Democratic Party delegate to keep a brave face outwardly while stressing the "known unknowns" internally? I spoke with Seth Taylor, a Georgia DNC delegate - proudly, he'll tell you, a delegate on the spectrum - who took the rollercoaster ride of uncertainty the past month. Hear how he weathered the debate debacle, its aftermath and the inevitable tra...

With Sunday afternoon's jaw-dropping announcement by President Joe Biden that he'd be bowing out of the presidential race, reporters, cable news shows and pundits (along with us podcast hosts) were scrambling for details and folks to discuss the ramifications. I had two of the best today - Melita Easters with the Georgia WIN List and Andrew Heaton of Sagamore Hill Political Consulting . He...

When the fact-checkers use the words "remarkably long and remarkably dishonest" to describe a speech, it's not hard to figure out who gave the speech these days. We spent a week bemoaning "inflammatory rhetoric" - despite mounting evidence the 20-year would-be assassin wasn't motivated by the term "existential threat to democracy" (or anything like it) ... onl...

The GOP has its vice presidential nominee in JD Vance, he of the "Hillbilly Elegy" memoir and Netflix movie. It is really quizzical to note his grievances borne out in that book and film when coupled with the political party he chose to align with. I'll dive in on that, but there's a LOT of fact-checking to do, too. Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell did their part , too. Mea...