New Bernie Sanders ad leans on Simon and Garfunkel

Set to the strains of Simon and Garfunkel's "America," Bernie Sanders' latest campaign ad out Thursday harkens to the Vermont senator's political roots in the 1960s while showing the faces of the Americans rallying to support him at his events over the course of his presidential campaign.

The spot is set to hit airwaves Friday in Iowa and New Hampshire, states where the senator has seen increased support in polling amid recent skirmishes with Hillary Clinton's campaign over policy issues like health care and general electability.


The ad features the Simon and Garfunkel staple playing over footage of quotidian scenes of Americana: windmills blowing across a wintry landscape, tugboats sitting on a dock, farmers at work, city dwellers in cafés, a father and daughter walking through what appears to be a suburban neighborhood, a man tossing bales of hay. The video then cuts to images of Sanders supporters of all stripes interacting with and listening to the democratic socialist candidate at his events interspersed with more footage of everyday American life.

“They’ve all come to look for America," Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sing as the word "AMERICA" appears on the screen, set over the image of an outdoor Sanders gathering.

Other than the standard candidate tagline at the end of the spot and the song itself, there is no dialogue in the 60-second ad, which features a smiling Sanders, sleeves rolled-up at one of his rallies.