Don Yelton, a Republican Party official in North Carolina,
thought it’d be a good idea to appear on “The Daily Show” and defend his
party’s new voter-suppression law. It didn’t turn out well for him or the state
GOP.
Yelton, who’s practically a caricature of himself, told
Aasif Mandvi the new state voting law is intended to tilt elections in
Republicans’ favor, used the “n” word, referenced “lazy black people that wants
the government to give them everything,” and said, in all seriousness, that one
of his “best friends is black.”
Though Yelton resigned from his post, he told a local
television station that he stands by his comments. “This is being picked up in
Raleigh, across the state,” he told WLOS in Asheville. “They’re trying to say,
‘Look at this guy. He’s racist.’ The whole question isn’t about racism.”
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