Show-Me State Times

Veteran Democrat political operative Lanny Davis has offered to cede Branson and large parts of the rest of the country to conservative America.

“DEAR RED STATES; WE'RE LEAVING,” Davis said in the start of a string of tweets. “We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, we're taking the other Blue States with us.”

Davis suggested conservative Americans “get Branson, Missouri” along with a list of other areas of the country. 

State Rep. Brad Hudson (R-Cape Fair)

Branson is regularly ranked in the top 20 of tourist destinations in the country.

“You get Texas, Oklahoma, and all the slave states,” Davis also said in a tweet.

So-called slave states would include Kentucky, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina, all of which have Democrat governors.  

For blue America, Davis also suggested keeping “the Statue of Liberty”, seemingly indicating liberty is only reserved for those who toe the Democratic party line, and a list of Fortune 500 companies including Costco, Starbucks, and Boeing Intel, Apple and Microsoft as well as many of the nation’s ports, tweeting "good luck with getting goods in or out of the country affordably."

“The fact that citizens of red states are called ‘crazy’ and ‘dumb’ in these tweets just shows the level of contempt and disgust some on the left have,” State Rep. Brad Hudson (R-Cape Fair), whose district includes the greater Branson area, told the Show-Me State Times. 

Hudson said having someone like Davis close to the campaign is a definite negative for Biden.

“If this is the type of person who is an advisor for Joe Biden, don’t be surprised when he loses the election,” Hudson said. 

Davis has an interesting past and, from what is publicly known, a colorful list of clients including oligarchs and dictators. He is co-founder of both D.C.-based law firm Davis Goldberg Galper PLLC and crisis management firm Trident DMG. 

Davis had a close relationship with the Clinton administration for which he served in something of a fixer role as “special counsel” from 1996 to 1998. His relationship carried on with the Obama administration and followed an advisor role in Hillary Clinton’s failed 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns.  

He writes a column littered with pro-Biden rhetoric that is regularly published in The Hill and other publications.

Davis was exposed as leaking false information to CNN in a case he was handling for former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. 

The Washington Post called Davis's involvement in Cohen's case an "unlikely alliance" given his long association with Democrats.