Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

By Lanny Davis – 5/6/22 Here are two questions that Senate and House Democratic campaign committees should demand — through well-financed national and state ad campaigns, on broadcast network, cable news channels and social media — that Republicans answer, yes or no:  1. Will you repudiate publicly Donald Trump’s praise of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of […]

By Lanny Davis – 1/13/22 Note to reader: In case you haven’t noticed I have suspended for the last year my regular column in “The Hill” (going back more than a dozen years) while I am writing my autobiography aimed primarily at an audience called “Family” — my wife of 37 years and my four […]

By Lanny Davis – 4/2/21 The scene was surreal: It was in the early 1990s, and I was playing the piano in our living room for a room full of people after dinner and dessert. Standing next to me, singing, was a person whom, in the post-Watergate years of the 1970s and ’80s, I considered […]

By Lanny Davis – 2/12/21 Most of the media understandably is focused on the number 67 — a vote by two-thirds of the 100 U.S. senators required to convict and remove an impeached president under the U.S. Constitution. The more important number, however, is whether Donald Trump is repudiated by a majority of the U.S. Senate, meaning that some […]

By Lanny Davis – 1/11/21 There are serious concerns about moving forward with an impeachment vote this week in the House.  First, it could detract from President-elect Biden’s most important message at his inauguration – a time to bring the country together and to heal. He needs unity in the country to confront the three […]

By Lanny Davis – 12/31/20 On Nov. 6, 1968, Richard Nixon declared victory in a narrow win over then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey, with a margin of less than 1 percent and little more than 500,000 votes out of 85 million cast. The nation seemed irreparably divided — ideologically, culturally, generationally.  During his victory speech that […]

By Lanny Davis and Michael Cohen – 12/23/20 There is a reason Donald Trump seems so desperate to hang on to his position as president of the United States. Over the weekend he reportedly talked with attorney Sidney Powell and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn about trying to impose martial law in states he lost in […]

By Lanny Davis – 11/2/20 I know some people who are voting for Donald Trump. Some of them are friends. So, as we approach election day on Tuesday, I want to try one more time to see if they will change their minds about voting for Trump. I have five questions. They can be answered […]

By Lanny Davis – 10/22/20 As we wait for tonight’s debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, most of the nation and the mainstream media are depicting the outcome as mainly dependent on whether President Trump exhibits his rudeness and abnormal behavior again, as he did in the last debate. The […]

By Lanny Davis – 10/9/20 This article outlines the best practices for companies who must delivery bad news to their customers. When giving bad news, natural human instincts can result in a company trying to sugarcoat a crisis, postpone telling customers of the crisis, or omit facts from what it tells the public about the […]