As the race for Attorney General Jeff Session's old Senate seat wages on, both candidates – Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore – have made critical missteps when asking for the black vote in Alabama. 

Jones, who has achieved national prominence for successfully charging two Ku Klux Klan members for their involvement in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing that killed four girls, has come under fire for a recent campaign mailer targeting black voters. In it, a black man is featured side-eyeing the voter with a caption stating "Think if a black man went after high school girls anyone would try to make him a senator?"

The ad also had "It's time to hold Roy Moore as accountable as anyone else" captioned on it.

After multiple women have come out against Moore alleging sexual misconduct when they were teens, Jones has risen in the polls and is leading by four points in a Big League-Gravis poll. But this mailer was a misstep for sure, even though 90 percent of black voters support him.

“To be comparing any black person to the mind and history of a Roy Moore is insulting,” the Reverend Kenneth Dukes, an Alabama pastor, told Newsweek.

Despite the backlash, the Jones campaign stands by the mailer pointing out Moore's “extreme views and divisive rhetoric” that would be “incapable of representing all of the people of Alabama.” On the surface, the mailer may have been a bad move but after Moore's recent resurfaced statements about when America was truly great, it is only an afterthought. 

"I think it was great at the time when families were united — even though we had slavery — they cared for one another…. Our families were strong, our country had a direction," Moore told an audience member at a rally from September.

Both men's fates will be decided Tuesday, Dec. 12.

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