Black Republican calls out Biden's 'real record on race' in six-figure ad buy to air during CNN debate

FIRST ON FOX: A key Republican lawmaker spearheading former President Trump's outreach to Black voters will debut a six-figure ad buy calling out what he describes as President Biden's "real record on race" during the CNN Presidential Debate Thursday.

First-term Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt's 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's controversial comments on race, is part of Hunt's strategy to convince Black voters to support Trump in November.

"Joe Biden's history as a politician reveals a pattern of making explicitly racist comments, authoring and endorsing discriminatory policies, and associating with individuals known as segregationists," Hunt told Fox News Digital in a statement.

He announced that Hellfire PAC would begin a national campaign in multiple swing states "to inform voters of Joe Biden's real history on race."

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The Hellfire PAC video begins with Biden's 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 "bussing."

"You also worked with them to oppose busing," Harris told Biden during a primary debate, referencing two segregationist senators. "You 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