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Oct. 14, 2015, 3:11 AM UTC / Updated Oct. 14, 2015, 3:11 AM UTC

A tweet sent from Republican candidate Mike Huckabee's Twitter account is raising eyebrows amid Tuesday night's Democratic debate.

@GovMikeHuckabee

"I trust @BernieSanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador!" the former Arkansas governor tweeted during Tuesday's debate.

Huckabee followed up his tweet hours later, writing, "Poor liberals think it's racist to deplore a brutal dictatorship."

The response on Twitter to Huckabee was swift:

Mike Huckabee is still a candidate for President of the United States of America. https://t.co/EAExqcipP8 — Racialicious (@racialicious) October 14, 2015

You're a Christian pastor & this is beneath you. #DemDebate https://t.co/wxkaeRpbv7 — Aisha Sultan (@AishaS) October 14, 2015

#Racism exists because we have a @GovMikeHuckabee who makes jokes about Koreans eating dogs https://t.co/x0h9MX85ob — Marie Myung-Ok Lee (@MarieMyungOkLee) October 14, 2015

@traciglee Was Huckabee thinking about 25th anniv of Jessica Hagedorn's novel Dogeaters? Nope, that was a racist tweet, plain and simple. — AsianAmericanLegal (@aaldef) October 14, 2015

I was wrong--#AAPIs were mentioned tonight. In a racist joke by @GovMikeHuckabee. https://t.co/Z0MPYAMOhh — Christopher Kang (@ChrisNCAPA) October 14, 2015

Stand-up comedian Jes Tom took a more light-hearted approach:

Huckabee was among several Republican presidential candidates who livetweeted Tuesday night's Democratic debate. Donald Trump also livetweeted the debate, writing at one point during the night, "Sorry, there is no STAR on the stage tonight!"