Update: The ad has since been removed from YouTube, but it can still be seen here. Helmer’s campaign has also good-naturedly riffed on the first “Helmer Zone” with a part II that calls on the candidate to stop singing.

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Tim Kaine’s harmonica riffs, Martin O’Malley jamming in an Irish rock band, Bill Clinton’s sax appearance on the Arsenio Hall Show: all canny political tools.

Dan Helmer’s warbled karaoke in a riff on Top Gun, well, you be the judge.

The Army veteran and Rhodes Scholar is one of eight Democrats running for the chance to unseat Republican Barbara Comstock (who is also facing a challenge from the far right) in bellwether northern Virginia.

Should you find yourself lucky enough to be watching this ad over and over while your insides physically recoil, you’ll find yourself focusing on different painful details each time: the credit to “Dan Helmer productions,” the shirt that says “VETERAN,” the Glenn Thrush look-alike, the painful dialogue with his actual wife, the terrible lyrics, the bar full of presumed campaign supporters who do nothing to stop him.

But then again, we definitely know Helmer’s name now.