New Powerful 60-Second Spot Will Run in Seven Battleground States
The man credited with delivering one of the most powerful and important challenges to Donald Trump during August’s Democratic National Convention is back in a new ad for Hillary Clinton. Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who stood with his wife on stage, waving his pocket version of the U.S. Constitution and asking the GOP nominee if he has ever even read it, now is asking Trump if his son, who gave his live in Iraq to save his fellow soldiers, would have a place in Trump’s America.
It is a powerful ad and delineates the sharp contrasts between the inclusive world a Hillary Clinton would build and the divisive one Donald Trump would create.
“He was 27 years old and he was a Muslim American,” the father of the late U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan says in the 60-second spot. The Hill reports the ad will air “in the battleground states of Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”
The video ends with Khan saying, “I want to ask Mr. Trump — would my son have a place in your America?”
Khan’s DNC speech not only was very moving an emblematic of an America that would embrace all minorities, but his direct attack on Trump drew the candidate in to a battle he lost yet waged for weeks, repeatedly attack Khan, then his wife, and by extension, their son. It was a turning point in the campaign, a marker in the timeline of the downfall of Donald Trump.
Watch the new ad:
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