Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former President Trump’s running mate, is taking part in a town hall with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday night.
Vance will speak before a live audience made up of Democrats, Republicans and Independents in Detroit, Mich., less than two weeks before Election Day.
Michigan is seen as one of the critical battlegrounds in Trump’s race against Vice President Harris, and is also site of one of the crucial Senate races.
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Vance addresses unfounded claims of migrants eating pets in Ohio during NewsNation town hall
Republican vice presidential candidate and Sen. JD Vance addressed unfounded claims he made in September that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating dogs and cats during Thursday night’s NewsNation town hall.
“What I said then, and I’ll say now, is, you’re hearing a lot of things from your constituents. They’re telling you things, and I think it’s important for me to listen to the people that are coming to me with their problems,” Vance told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo in a preview clip of the Detroit event.
“Now, do I think that the media certainly got distracted on the housing crisis and the health crisis and the crisis in the public schools by focusing on the eating the dogs and the cats things? Yeah, I do. Do I wish that I had been better in that moment? Maybe,” he said.
“But it’s also people in my community, people that I represent are coming to me and saying this thing is happening. What am I supposed to do? Hang up the phone and tell them they’re a liar because the media doesn’t want me to talk about it?”