Dem Rep. Max Frost: ‘Whenever You Hear DEI, I Want You to Think the N-Word and ... Racial Slurs’

ACOSTA: “And I do want to ask you about some comments that J.D. Vance made yesterday about racism in America. Let‘s listen to that.”

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Vance: “Democrats say that it is racist to believe — well, they say it‘s racist to do anything. I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I’m sure they‘re going to call that racist, too, but... it‘s good.
(Laughter)
I love you, guys.”
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ACOSTA: “Congressman, your response to that?”
FROST: “I mean, what a bizarre clip. I have a lot to say about that clip. It feels like a Saturday Night Live skit with the joke about a Mountain Dew being racist and then the one distant clap. The guy has got no juice. And so we‘ll see how he does on the campaign trail. He‘s not even exciting his own voters. The other thing I‘d say is that he is going to continue to use all these racist dog whistles throughout the campaign. We‘re going to see it from Trump, we‘re going to see it from J.D. Vance, and we‘re going to see it from a lot of their surrogates. In fact, just yesterday, one of the surrogates was saying, ‘If we don‘t win, we‘re going to have to have a civil war to get our agenda through.’ A civil war. And so this is an organization, this is a right-wing campaign that‘s going to be racist, misogynistic against the vice president, but we‘re going to stand on the issues and what really matters. It’s the fact that she is qualified. They want to call her a DEI president or DEI candidate. She has more experienced than Trump and J.D. Vance combined times a million, right? She worked at the state level. She was the attorney general. She‘s vice president of the United States. She was a senator representing one of the largest states in the entire country. And so these are just racist dog whistles. Whenever you hear DEI, I want you to think about the n-word, I want you to think about racial slurs. That‘s what they actually mean.”
ACOSTA: “Do you think Congressman Burchett is being racist when he says that?”
FROST: “I have a good relationship with the congressman. I think sometimes, though, he does use rhetoric that is racist. And whether people know it’s racist or not, I‘m here to tell them that is racist and I hope they won‘t use that rhetoric anymore.”