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"This whole Talladega race win was supposed to be a celebration, and then it was supposed to be something that I was able to use to move up, and I really wanted to capitalize on that,” Brown told Ben Smith of the New York Times earlier this month. "But with this meme going viral, it was more of, I had to stay more silent, because everybody wanted it to go on to the political side. I’m about the racing side."
"I have zero desire to be involved in politics," he added.
NASCAR has also tried to separate itself from the saying.
"I feel for Brandon," NASCAR president Steve Phelps said in November. "I think unfortunately it speaks to the state of where we are as a country. We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, the left or the right. We obviously have and we’ve always had, as a sport, tremendous respect for the office of the president—no matter who is sitting."
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