CNN: One thing to watch for at the vice presidential debate — Springfield

CNN lists five things to watch in the debate between Democrat Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance tonight in the one and only vice presidential debate of the 2024 election.

The matchup between Minnesota governor Walz and Vance, the Ohio senator, is being hosted by CBS News and taking place in New York, without a live audience.

One of the CNN things to watch is discussion of Donald Trump and JD Vance statements about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio:

“For weeks now, Vance and Trump have been doubling and tripling down on false claims that Haitians in the Ohio city are abducting and eating their neighbors’ pets.

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine and many others have called the claims outlandish, and no one has provided any evidence to the contrary. Still, Trump and Vance want immigration front and center and, even though the migrants are in the country legally, the Republican ticket has sought to use the debunked rumor to gin up anger over the Biden administration’s handling of the border.  . . .

Pressed on the claims by CNN’s Dana Bash in September, 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.’

It would not be surprising to hear Walz bring up that comment, in particular, in attacking the Republicans’ rhetoric.”

It should be an entertaining evening.

KJ