Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee arrives on stage at the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center on January 14, 2016 in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s campaign on Wednesday released a campaign video modeled after Adele’s hit single “Hello” as the former Arkansas governor looks to make inroads in Iowa.
Republican candidate Huckabee appears in the video, which shows notable points in the campaign as the singer sings “Hello from the caucus nights”.
Huckabee’s campaign also deftly weaved some political memes into the video.
But in an interview earlier this month with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, Huckabee said Iowa voters tend to decide late on who they’ll support in their caucuses and the race could once again break his way. The lyrics, including a line stating “If Bernie wins, I’m gonna die”, are predictably idiotic and corny – as one would expect from a man who released a book named “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” – but more than that, they are straight up weird.
The video, with numerous shots of snow-lined roads, pays homage to the “arctic blasts” and “sub-zero chills” of Ankeny, Iowa – where, according to the song, “I got frostbite, gangrene”.
Over all, this video is pretty uncomfortable and I can’t help but think that it’s a really pretty desperate play at appealing to a more modern demographic.
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A recent CNN/ORC poll shows Huckabee with less than 3 percent of the vote.
