Gov. Tim Walz just slammed Sen. JD Vance over repeated false claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio — three weeks after Donald Trump made the claims during the presidential debate and sent the city into disarray.
“We could come together and solve this if we didn't let Donald Trump continue to make it an issue, and the consequences in Springfield where the governor had to send state law enforcement to escort kindergartners to school,” Walz said.
“Look, the people I am most worried about in Springfield, Ohio are the American citizens who have had their lives destroyed by Kamala Harris' open border,” Vance responded.
Moderator Margaret Brennan fact-checked Vance, confirming that the Haitian migrants in Springfield are there legally. Vance hit back, and CBS briefly cut both candidates’ mics.
Trump and Vance have accused Haitian migrants of “eating the pets of the people that live there.” Springfield officials deny that this is happening — and ABC moderator David Muir fact-checked the former president in real time last month — but the city still became the center of a political firestorm and a symbol for the Trump campaign of the horrors it says an “invasion” of immigrants is causing.
In an interview on CNN last month, Vance said: “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”
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