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Ayo Edebiri Asks Nikki Haley if Slavery Caused the Civil War in ‘SNL’ Cold Open; Haley Admits, ‘I Should Have Said That the First Time’
While hosting 'SNL,' Ayo Edebiri got Nikki Haley to admit she should have cited slavery as the cause of the Civil War.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley crashed “ Saturday Night Live ” on Feb. 3 to taunt Donald Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) in a town hall sketch, but ended up getting schooled by host Ayo Edebiri. Popping up at the end of the sketch, Edebiri posed a pointed question: “I was just curious, what would you say was the main cause of the civil war? Edebiri’s joke was a reference to a December 2023 town hall in New Hampshire where a voter asked Haley what caused the war, to which she responded, “I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run.
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