I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd … - Trevor Noah

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No Republican has ever been elected president of the United States without winning Ohio.

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I'd get suspicious looks from people just walking down the streets. Where are you from? They'd ask. I'd reply in whatever language they'd addressed me in using the same accent that they used. There would be a brief moment of confusion, and then the suspicious look would disappear.

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[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

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If you spoke to me in Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.

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Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

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There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

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People should always be wary of that because the precedent is set. And it's so much easier to build on a foundation than it is something that doesn't exist. So you see it as something that's happening to people that are not you. And then it expands, and it expands further. And then, one day, you're on a registry.

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