MSNBC reports:

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory defended the controversial
voter ID law he signed into law in August, arguing that opposition is
purely political. “Voter ID laws are common sense,” McCrory told The Daily Rundown’s Chuck
Todd on Wednesday from Scottsdale, Ariz., where he is attending the
Republican Governors Association meeting. “We require an ID to get
Sudafed in North Carolina, to get food stamps in North Carolina.”

The Department of Justice has filed to block the law, but the GOP governor even argued that too was a political move.  “Some of the voter ID controversy is more created than real,”
said McCrory, who pointed out that it was “ironic”they were being sued
by the DOJ even though other states, like New York, don’t even offer
early voting.