The Ohio pet panic

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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No, Haitian immigrants aren’t eating anyone’s pets. USA Today-Ohio’s Erin Glynn and the Verge’s Gaby Del Valle explain why Republicans are talking about it anyway. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Photo by REBECCA NOBLE/AFP via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The rumor that Haitian migrants are eating people's pets in the town of Springfield, Ohio
0:05.4	has been debunked by the city's leaders. So why do JD Vance and Donald Trump
0:10.4	keep repeating it? Here's Vance explaining himself in a weekend interview
0:14.0	with CNN's Dana Bash. The American media totally ignored this stuff
0:18.0	until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes. If I have to create stories so that the American
0:26.3	media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then
0:30.1	that's what I'm going to do, Dana, because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast.
0:35.4	He's creating stories. He's making it up.
0:37.7	The Trump campaign is trying to score political points on immigration and taking an ugly rumor viral
0:46.3	is one way to do that. But in Springfield people's lives have been turned upside down and that story is coming up on today explained. Support for this show comes from Pendo.
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