Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

by Lanny Davis – 11/16/16 We all know that on Oct. 28, ten days before the election, FBI Director James Comey wrote a public letter to congress suggesting Hillary Clinton was still under FBI investigation for emails. All her momentum after she won the last presidential debate on Oct. 19 was lost. Instead, the media […]

by Lanny Davis & Drew Halunen – 11/10/16 Dear Purple Nation readers and friends: A young colleague in our public affairs / media strategy firm, Trident DMG, Drew Halunen, is from rural Minnesota. After last Tuesday’s sad outcome in the presidential election and in some U.S. Senate races, I asked Drew how Trump could have […]

by Lanny Davis – 11/7/16 A redundancy is two words side by side that mean the same thing. The two words “Trump” and “hypocrite” amount to a redundancy. We’ve seen GOP nominee Donald Trump’s hypocrisy during his entire campaign — as most of his Republican opponents pointed out repeatedly during the GOP primaries. On Sunday, […]

by Lanny Davis – 11/5/16 There has been a lot of media and pundit commentary in the last several weeks suggesting that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton may face difficulty in the presidential race because African-Americans are voting in lower percentages in early voting tabulations than they did in 2008 and 2012 when Barack Obama was […]

by Lanny Davis – 11/3/16 There are three simple facts about Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy that are not disputable — even by supporters of Donald Trump. There are undisputed facts about Trump as well — that he has used bigoted words about Mexicans, questioned the integrity of a federal judge because of his Mexican heritage, […]