WATCH: GOP Candidate Whacks Obama Bobblehead in Weird New Ad

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGFTRCSDVa8">Beau McCoy</a>/YouTube


Nebraska state Sen. Beau McCoy (R), who is campaigning for governor by driving around the state in a white pickup truck with a ladder rack, wants GOP primary voters to know that he’ll push back against President Barack Obama’s administration. In an ad that hit Nebraska airwaves this week, McCoy confronts an Obama bobblehead doll mounted on a fence post—and knocks it to the ground with a swift backhand. “More Obamacare in Nebraska? That’s the last thing we need,” he says before smacking the bobblehead.

Then he rides off on his steed.

McCoy is a serious underdog in the race to succeed GOP Gov. Dave Heineman. He grabbed just 4.7 percent in a February survey of the field by Harper Polling, well behind attorney general Jon Bruning and former Ameritrade COO Pete Ricketts, the son of big-time Republican super-PAC donor Joe Ricketts.

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