This is after Vance admitted on CNN Sunday morning that the stories about pet-eating Haitians were fabricated.
Issue 1 on Ohio's November ballot would make changes to how maps are drawn for congressional and Statehouse districts. How would the proposal work?
Ohio isn't the first state to try a citizen commission for drawing congressional and state legislative districts.
On Sept. 15, Ohio Sen. JD Vance — Trump’s running mate and the first of the Republican presidential ticket candidates to elevate false claims that Haitians in Springfield were eating pets — defended his team’s statements that Haitian immigrants were eating cats and dogs.
During an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press," Sen. J.D. Vance argued that it is "really shameful, that no one cared" about what is happening in communities like Springfield, Ohio, until the Trump campaign started talking about migrants "eating pets.
The town has become the center of a national political fight on immigration, with Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, spreading baseless conspiracy theories that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are eating dogs and other pets.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance isn't backing away from the false claims he and Donald Trump have been making that Haitians living in an Ohio community are abducting and eating pets.
Donald Trump and his running mate continue to disparage Haitian migrants in an Ohio community, further fueling false claims the Republicans have promoted even as the city has seen bomb threats and school evacuations and local officials called for a cooling of the anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno held an event in Springfield Saturday where he blamed the Biden administration for the mass influx of migrants to the town.
Donald Trump wanted to spend this week attacking one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris’ biggest political vulnerabilities. Instead, he spent most of the week falsely claiming that migrants are eating pets in a small town in Ohio and defending his embrace of a far-right agitator whose presence is causing concern among his allies.