Adele’s “Hello” is getting the presidential candidate treatment, Huckabee style.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee posted a parody of the smash single, which recently became the fastest video to reach 1 billion views on YouTube, on his campaign YouTube account Wednesday.
The tune — “Hello, HUCK” — is directed at Iowa caucus-goers, but takes lyrical jabs at Democratic contenders with lines like, “There’s just no difference between Obama and Hillary” and “Hello from the caucus night / If Bernie wins, I’m gonna die.”
There are also swipes at Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, showing photos of him and Glenn Beck as Adele sings “this election has all gone insane. Cuckoo-ca-choo.”
The video features a faux text message conversation between Huckabee and Cruz in which the senator says, “I’m Canadian!” after Huckabee mistakes him for a Czech.
And the verses highlight the pain that Huckabee, the winner of the 2008 Iowa caucus but who is trailing the field in 2016, has endured to connect with voters this time around.
The singer emotes about getting “frostbite” and “gangrene” and enduring “sub-zero chills” while campaigning in the first caucus state during winter.
“Hello Iowa Caucus Night, we’ve called and knocked a thousand times,” the song goes. “And Huckabee is the guy whose long overdue.”
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie previously used the popular Adele song to hit Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in a tongue-in-cheek attempt to point out that the two once had a good relationship. It includes a 2013 quote from Rubio praising Christie while the song plays in the background.
