The 1964 Johnson/Humphrey Campaign made history when they launched their "Daisy" ad that asserted that Republican Nominee Barry Goldwater was too trigger-happy with the country's nuclear arsenal to be President.
Fast forward 60 years and The Lincoln Project has released their own "Daisy ad" featuring a young woman from the grave, imploring her father and other men who support Trump, to come back from the world of hate and support candidates that would stop other women from dying on the operating table after physicians let them languish after having complications from a miscarriage.
The ad starts with a young woman, Daisy in emergency surgery, apparently following complications from a miscarriage that doctors waited to attend to because they did not want to be prosecuted for not following Trump's Abortion Bans in that state.
The daughter, after dying, speaks saying:
"It didn't need to end this way, Dad. You were so excited to be a grandfather. When you walked me down the aisle, those were happy tears. College, high school, sports. I could always count on you. You are my protector. My hero. You always made me feel safe, and loved. Like I was the most important person in the world."
"But it turned out, he (Donald Trump) was more important."
The ad then shows Mr. Trump praising his efforts to get rid of Roe v Wade and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell mocking rules that prevent women from getting to a courthouse to ask for life-saving care if they "are on a hospital bed, dying."
The dead daughter continues her narration, saying:
"You knew what he'd do. You knew his politics would end my freedom. My rights...My Life. You chose hate...over me."
Unfortunately, this ad reflects a life-threatening reality for many women in states that have Trump Abortion Bans.
I would say ask Amber Thurman from Georgia to verify this but she is dead from the very same laws that this ad dramatizes.
I would say ask the women of Texas where maternal mortality rates have skyrocketed since their abortion ban went into effect.
Quoting President Lyndon Johnson from his 1964 ad "These are the stakes." But this time, it is not about a trigger-happy President causing a nuclear war. It is about the women of this country living in fear for their lives because of these Trump Abortion Bans.
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