Mushroom Cloud Reappears in Anti-Trump Ad From Bill Bradley-Backed PAC
Bill Bradley, former U.S. senator from New Jersey, attends the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 6, 2016, in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesBill Bradley, the former Democratic senator from New Jersey and a long-time vociferous critic of super-PACs, has formed just such a group to go after Donald Trump in the final weeks before Election Day with a TV ad that invokes one of the most powerful political attacks in American history.
In September 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidential campaign released “Daisy,” a 60-second television advertisement that juxtaposed a petal-picking child with images of nuclear obliteration to caution against a Barry Goldwater presidency. It aired only once, but is widely remembered as perhaps the most powerfully negative TV ad ever created.