Khizr Khan will be one of the remembered names of the 2016 election.
Khan became a focal point in the campaign after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention, telling the story of his Muslim son, Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. He also used that story to deliver an impassioned case against Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban.
Rather than simply accepting the criticism, Trump turned it into a weeks-long public spat with the Gold Star Khan family. That was one of the first scandals of the 2016 campaign where Trump did not defy traditional gravity – in other words his poll numbers went down and actually stayed down.
Before the campaign comes to an end, Mr. Khan has one more question for Trump: “Would my son have a place in your America?”
Khan became a focal point in the campaign after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention, telling the story of his Muslim son, Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. He also used that story to deliver an impassioned case against Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban.
Rather than simply accepting the criticism, Trump turned it into a weeks-long public spat with the Gold Star Khan family. That was one of the first scandals of the 2016 campaign where Trump did not defy traditional gravity – in other words his poll numbers went down and actually stayed down.
Before the campaign comes to an end, Mr. Khan has one more question for Trump: “Would my son have a place in your America?”