What Barry Goldwater was to nuclear weapons is what Donald Trump is to … nuclear weapons, that’s what Hillary Clinton’s latest ad seems to suggest.
Clinton's new spot features Monique Luiz, the actress who appeared in Lyndon Johnson’s famous “Daisy” commercial from 1964 when she was three. It only ran once, but to devastating effect.
The point then, as now, was to question the candidate's ability and temperament to handle nuclear weapons.
The ad...is part of the campaign's closing argument against the Republican Party's presidential nominee. The campaign hopes to cast Trump as too reckless and unhinged to be trusted with the country's nuclear arsenal."This was me in 1964," Luiz says as video from the iconic ad, which features a young girl with flowers while a countdown to a nuclear warhead launch echoes in the background, plays. "The fear of nuclear war that we had as children, I never thought our children would ever have to deal with that again. And to see that coming forward in this election is really scary."
Among other things, Trump has said:
“You want to be unpredictable with nuclear weapons.”