WATCH: Bernie Sanders Rocks to ‘Hotline Bling’

Image by Ellen

By Lior Zaltzman November 4, 2015

Late night when you need some socialist policies and love? Call Bernie Sanders on his cellphone!

Ellen Degeneres has just created what is basically the best Bernie Sanders campaign ad, bringing together two Jewish greats: Vermont senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and Canadian rapper and bar-Mitzvah boy Drake.

After Bernie Sanders danced his way into Ellen show, she got the idea to put him into Drake’s recent “Hotline Bling” video, which has already turned into quite a meme.

The result is better than anything we could’ve imagined:

They used to call Bernie Sanders on his cell phone…

Posted by Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday, November 3, 2015

I don’t know what about you, but I am definitely feeling the Bern.

Lior Zaltzman was the Forward’s Digital Fellow. Follow her on twitter @liorca.

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