NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican candidate Manny Sethi is daring the public to call him a racist for his position on immigration in the first television advertisement in Tennessee’s 2020 Senate election.

Sethi’s campaign unveiled the ad on Tuesday, where it’ll be aired statewide in Tennessee and in Washington D.C.

The ad features Sethi’s mother, Chander Sethi, talking about her experience immigrating from India to the United States. She adds that anyone who criticizes illegal immigration is called a racist.

Manny Sethi then says “let ‘em try to call me a racist” while broadly criticizing Democrats on immigration.

Sethi is one of the top-tiered GOP candidates vying for the position being vacated by outgoing Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander. Former U.S. Ambassador Bill Hagerty is the only other prominent Republican running for the seat.

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