Fox News’ Howard Kurtz and Griff Jenkins took Republican vice presidential nominee and Senator JD Vance (R-OH) to task for his promotion of the debunked allegations that Haitian migrants are eating pet cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio on Sunday, arguing that he’s wasting time with just a few weeks to go until election day.
Kurtz kicked off the segment by noting that while Vance has cited one story about a missing cat in support of his claims, the cat’s owner has since come out and said that the pet was in her basement.
“Well look, let’s start with the fact that there’s no shortage of cat names now, courtesy of JD Vance, who initially amplified on social media this claim,” replied Jenkins. But I think Karl Rove put it best when he wrote this week in The Wall Street Journal that the Vance, the Trump-Vance campaign has yet to produce a single Ohio pet owner who’ mourning Fluffy or Fido, who was barbecued by Haitians. And I think the larger point that Rove was making is a valid one, which is” with less than 45 days, there’s simply no time to waste on things like this when your job is to drive home the overriding failures of the, you know, inflation and the border crisis.”