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AdAge: Frank Underwood Hijacked the Presidential Debate
Last night on CNN, a surprise contender hijacked the Republican Candidate Presidential Debate to promote his own platform, Frank Underwood of Netflix’s “House of Cards.”
A cheesy campaign video (looking these days like the other run-of-the-mill political promos out there but, as one reader pointed out, taking cues from Hal Riney’s famous “It’s Morning in America,”) aired during the first hour of the program. It could have been shilling for any of the candidates, cutting together proud patriotic scenes from around the country with an inspiring voiceover:
