Watch Bernie Sanders do the 'Hotline Bling' in a fake campaign ad

Parody campaign video of Bernie Sanders dancing to "Hotline Bling" by Drake on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
(Image credit: TheEllenShow/Youtube)

If Bernie Sanders didn't have young voters' attention before, he certainly does now. In a parody campaign ad that aired on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday, the Vermont senator is shown grooving to "Hotline Bling," the most recent hit to emerge from Drake's music-meme-industrial complex. While Sanders unfortunately had no part in the making of this video — Ellen's people cut his dancing during an appearance on her show into Drake's now iconic video — the resulting clip works pretty well:

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Roxie Pell is the social media editor of TheWeek.com. She has previously written for Gothamist, Frommer's, and The Rumpus.