How toxic is President Obama on the campaign trail? So toxic that a Republican candidate in Nevada is paying to re-air an ad Obama cut for his Democratic opponent.

Cresent Hardy, the GOP nominee for a Nevada House district, was thrilled to hear that Representative Steve Horsford was airing a radio ad featuring Obama on minority radio stations in Las Vegas. So the Las Vegas Sun reports that within a day Republican Hardy “turned the ad around and paid to air it in the rural sections of the district. . . . Hardy’s version of Horsford’s radio ad is exactly the same, except instead of Horsford’s voice approving the message, Hardy gives the OK.”

The Las Vegas–based House seat leans Democratic but Horsford only won it by 50 percent to 42 percent in 2012, a banner year for Democrats in Nevada. Its rural areas include the city of Ely and the site of Area 51, the controversial military-flight testing facility.