A key Republican lawmaker spearheading former President Trump\u2019s outreach to Black voters will debut a six-figure ad buy calling out what he describes as President Biden\u2019s \u2018real record on race\u2019 during the CNN Presidential Debate Thursday.<\/p>\n
First-term Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt\u2019s Hellfire PAC will air the 60-second ad on Fox News and CNN in major cities in key battleground states including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Thursday night. The ad, which puts a spotlight on several of Biden\u2019s controversial comments on race, is part of Hunt\u2019s strategy to convince Black voters to support Trump in November.<\/p>\n
\u2018Joe Biden\u2019s history as a politician reveals a pattern of making explicitly racist comments, authoring and endorsing discriminatory policies, and associating with individuals known as segregationists,\u2019 Hunt told Fox News Digital in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He announced that Hellfire PAC would begin a national campaign in multiple swing states \u2018to inform voters of Joe Biden\u2019s real history on race.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Hellfire PAC video begins with Biden\u2019s own vice president, Kamala Harris, questioning his onetime opposition to school desegregation. In an infamous moment from the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, then-rival candidate Harris said Biden, as a freshman senator in 1975, had worked with segregationist lawmakers to oppose \u2018bussing.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018You also worked with them to oppose busing,\u2019 Harris told Biden during a primary debate, referencing two segregationist senators. \u2018You know there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.\u2019<\/p>\n
The ad goes on to call into question Biden\u2019s record on civil rights, noting his relationships with segregationist Southern Democrats, including former Sens. James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia. Biden ignited a firestorm in 2019 after he spoke fondly of the \u2018civility\u2019 of the old Senate and his ability to work with those he disagreed with, name-dropping those opponents of racial integration. In response to attacks from his then-Democratic rivals, Biden said there is \u2018not a racist bone in my body.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The video quotes various cringe-inducing statements from Biden\u2019s lengthy political career, including a campaign event from 2012 when the then-vice president told an audience of Black voters that Republicans are \u2018going to put y\u2019all back in chains.\u2019 In another insensitive gaffe quoted from a 2019 campaign event in Iowa, Biden said \u2018poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hellfire PAC\u2019s ad also shows Biden describing his old running mate, former President Obama, as \u2018the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate, and bright and clean \u2014 nice looking guy.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hunt, who is Black, told Fox News Digital that no Republican would get away with the things Biden has said.<\/p>\n
\u2018If any Republican had even the slightest history that Joe Biden has on race, they would be ostracized, canceled, and excoriated by the media,\u2019 he said. \u2018When Democrat President Joe Biden does it, there\u2019s always an excuse, and, when there\u2019s not an excuse, the behavior and the policies are simply memory-holed.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n