Representative Wesley Hunt (R-TX), a black congressman, said that the Democrats were "using racism as a scapegoat for everything" including attacking the Republican Party as racist. Representative Hunt rejected this attack on the Grand Old Party and used his own experience as the supreme counter to such an accusation, according to Breitbart News. Mr. Hunt made his case, which now has over a million views, during an interview with Tim Pool's podcast show 'Timcast IRL'.

Mr. Hunt began by noting that Democrats have "gotten away with painting the Republican Party as being racist" and that this is an uncritical assessment of the party of Lincoln. Representative Hunt said that "And then someone like me comes around and decides to run for Congress" and blatantly contradicts the Democratic narrative. "I live in a district that President Trump would have won by 23 points [and] I ended up winning by 30 points,” he stated. “And in the Republican primary, I beat out 9 white guys. In the general election, I beat out a white guy by 30 points … I outperformed the president … and it’s a white-majority district" said the black Texas conservative.

"In the Republican primary, 75% of the voters were white and they voted for me overwhelmingly. Why? Because I was the best candidate. That’s it. That’s literally what our party is," commented the Lone Star State representative. Representative Hunt stated that this is as it should be and how this lives up to Martin Luther King's vision that the content of one's character rather than the color of one's skin determines how society judges them. "I get to wake up every day and live Martin Luther King’s dream: I’m literally being judged by the content of my character, not by the color of my skin," said Hunt.  

Mr. Hunt rejected the primacy of identity politics that reduces people to political tribes based on surface-level characteristics. "First of all, I’m an American, I’m a combat veteran, I am a father, I am a West Point graduate, I am an Ivy League graduate — we could go all the way down the line before I get to ‘black guy," said Mr. Hunt. Mr. Hunt mentioned that such experiences were not just confined to him and his district but were part of a wider phenomenon within the conservative movement. "Realizing that you see people like me, you see people like [Representative] Byron Donalds [R-FL], you see people like [Senator] Tim Scott [R-SC], [and] we are all winning in white-majority areas…So you can’t call us racist anymore," said the Republican lawmaker. 

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Democrats have not ceased with such rhetoric that Republicans are the party of racism. Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) sought to downplay the historic nature of Representative Donalds, a black Republican,  being nominated for the Speakership back in January 2023. She wrote that Mr. Donalds "is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy. His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic."
 

FWIW, @ByronDonalds is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.

His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic.

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 4, 2023

Representative Donalds, however, would respond to this farcical media post by tweeting, "if you see a Black man rise, let the man rise even if you disagree with them. I’d be happy to sit down and debate our policies one on one whenever you’d like. As a Black man to a Black woman, I’d never do that to you. It’s a shame you did it to me."
 

.@CoriBush, if you see a Black man rise, let the man rise even if you disagree with them.

I’d be happy to sit down and debate our policies one on one whenever you’d like.

As a Black man to a Black woman, I’d never do that to you. It’s a shame you did it to me. pic.twitter.com/ojpEHLhSI4

— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) January 5, 2023