While Adele’s version is a reflection on the nature of personal growth through the lens of an intense breakup, Huckabee’s take presented more of a meditation on the greatness of local Iowa businesses and restaurants.
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Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has released perhaps the oddest political ad of the 2016 campaign – an Iowa themed cover of Adele’s Hello.
The campaign’s song replaced lyrics like, “Time’s supposed to heal you/but I ain’t done much healing”, with, “Try the pork chops/baked beans”.
At another point, she says the election has “all gone insane” while Cruz is shown being blocked by a Huckabee campaign staffer from going on stage at a September rally for Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis. The video also shows clips of fellow candidate Hillary Clinton doing the whip/nae nae on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Sanders and Clinton’s faces also appear alongside the phrase “cuckoo-ca-choo”.
He later mocks Ted Cruz with a fake text conversation.
Addressing the state’s frigid temperatures, the female Adele impersonator singing the song bemoans the “arctic blasts” and “sub zero chills” – before oversharing: “Got frostbite, gangrene”.
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Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses in 2008, but has so far failed to gain traction on candidates like Cruz and Donald Trump, who are favorites to win the state when ballots are cast on Monday.
