A pro-Trump super PAC TV ad aimed at dividing Black and Latino communities over Joe Biden’s possible pick of a Black running mate is being sharply criticized by U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey).

“No one’s buying Trump’s blatant pandering and fear-mongering,” Menendez told the New Jersey Globe.  “The choice this November for my fellow Latinos couldn’t be clearer: four more years of the same racism or a different, more inclusive path forward.”

The Spanish language ad, paid for by the Committee to Defend the President, uses the image of Menendez, as well as other prominent Latino Democrats, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Julián Castro.

“He promised his party an African American Vice President.  Not a Latino, even though we make up over one-sixth of the U.S. population and contribute twice as much to the economy,” the ad says. “Why aren’t Latinos good enough for Joe?”

Menendez insists that Trump defenders won’t be successful in driving Latino voters away from Biden.

“No President has done more to demonize and harm our community than Donald Trump—from his racist, xenophobic policies to attacks on immigrants and the detention of children at the border, and so much more,” Menendez said.

The Committee to Defend the President was launched as a Stop Hillary PAC seven years ago and changed it’s name in 2017.

Politico reported late last year that the Committee to Defend the President spent nearly $260,000 on TV and online ads in support of a New Jersey congressman who switched parties to support Trump, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-Dennis).

The add also uses images of Latino journalists Juan Williams and anti-Trump Republican strategist Ana Navarro.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-Montclair) beat up on President Donald Trump today for threatening to postpone the November general election and offered to tutor him on democracy during an MSNBC appearance today.

“The constitution gives the power to determine election days to Congress and we’re not moving it,” the freshman congresswoman from New Jersey said.

Trump created a stir when he floated postponing the election until the coronavirus is over in a Thursday morning tweet.

Sherrill, a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor, rebuffed Trump’s idea.

“If the president is unsure how to run a free and fair election in one of the oldest democracies on earth, then we in Congress are happy to tell him how to do it,” Sherill said. “I’m happy to meet with him to help him understand how to do this because we just did it in New Jersey in our primaries.”

She pointed to New Jersey’s recent primary election, which was conducted almost entirely through vote-by-mail, where voter turnout was the second highest in state history.

“Governors across the country have been able to do this,” said Sherrill.  “It’s striking the lack of leadership from the President of the United States.”