Our experts agree on Donald Trump's false claims about Springfield, but will it matter? - ABC6OnYourSide.com
Democratic strategist Derrick Clay and GOP strategist Bob Clegg clash in the ABC6 News studio Tuesday night over which presidential candidate is to blame for the nation's immigration mess. (WSYX)
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — "They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats..."
With that unsupported assertion, Donald Trump brought a national audience to the controversy over immigration in the Ohio city about 45 minutes west of Columbus. Most of the misinformation involves legal Haitian immigrants supposedly eating neighbors' cats, with perhaps some waterfowl from local parks added to the story -- which police and city officials have strenuously refuted.
"This is all about getting attention to Springfield. Ohio," said central Ohio GOP political strategist Bob Clegg. "That's what it's about, okay? That's all it's about. And you know what? He got a lot of attention to Springfield, Ohio tonight."
And thus he brought attention to an issue Trump has pounded on for more than eight years: immigration.
During the 90-minute-plus debate in Philadelphia,ABC News moderator David Muir told Trump they checked with the city manager earlier in the day and confirmed authorities have zero evidence to back up the claims made by Trump, running mate and Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Attorney General Dave Yost and others. The mayor and police say the same.
Trump's basis for the claim: “I saw people on television...
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