Mike Huckabee calls Washington, D.C., a strip club
Mike Huckabee speaks during the Values Voter Summit, held last month in Washington. (Photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP)
Mike Huckabee is hoping new poles — no, that’s not a typo — can heat up his floundering presidential campaign.
The former Arkansas governor released a bizarre new campaign ad Thursday that compares the nation’s capital to a strip club.
“Washington — it’s a strip club. The political class dances for the donor class and the working class gets stuck with the tab,” a narrator says over the image of crumpled up dollar bills surrounding a stripper pole.
Then Huckabee says that Americans who are tired of corrupt elites should burn down the “Washington political machine” and rebuild the country.
“No more leading from behind, no more losing,” he says. “It’s time for America to win again.”
Huckabee went largely unnoticed at the first Republican presidential debate on September 16 and has been struggling in the polls. A recent WSJ/NBC News poll, completed September 24, placed his support among GOP primary voters at just 2 percent.
He is at risk of not making the cut for the next primetime GOP debate on October 28. CNBC announced Wednesday that candidates who do not garner at least 3 percent support in a respected national poll will be relegated to the “JV,” or undercard, debate.
The ad could be seen as a last-ditch effort for Huckabee to compete with the sometimes-incendiary rhetoric of his Republican competitors — most notably frontrunner Donald Trump.
The title of a blog post accompanying the video even uses one of the businessman’s favorite put-downs: “America needs a leader, not a loser.”
