Ayo Edebiri hosted Saturday Night Live but made a brief appearance during the cold open to confront Nikki Haley.
The Bear celebrity made an early appearance, asking the Republican candidate if slavery was the cause of the Civil War.
“I was just curious, what would you say was the main cause of the Civil War, and do you think it starts with an s and ends with a Lavery?” Edebiri asked.
Haley replied, “Yep, I probably should’ve said that the first time.”
The presidential prospect had the distinction of starting the show, saying, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night.”
During a New Hampshire town hall in December, Haley was asked what caused the Civil War in the United States, but she never addressed slavery in her response.
“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run — the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,” Haley said in her response.
Following the reaction, Haley clarified her remarks during an interview on the Good Morning New Hampshire radio show, saying, “Of course, the Civil War was about slavery.”
She went on to say, “What it means to us today is freedom—that’s what it was all about. “It was about individual freedom,” she explained. “It was about economic independence. “It was about individual rights.”
Haley then stated that the person who asked the question was a “plant” by Democrats “to do things like this to get the media to react.”
Although she could not provide evidence for the “plant” assertion, when questioned if she believed the voter was a plant, she doubled down and declared the New Hampshire voter was a “Democrat plant.”