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Most voters in Ohio don’t imagine Donald Trump’s racist falsehood that Haitian immigrants are “consuming the pets” of Springfield.
However the Republican presidential candidate remains to be main Vice President Kamala Harris by roughly six share factors within the state, sustaining his lead from his 2016 and 2020 victories, in accordance with polling from The Washington Submit.
Roughly 55 % of Ohio voters, together with almost each Democratic voter within the survey, accurately imagine that the debunked viral declare that Haitian immigrants within the state are consuming folks’s cats and canine is fake.
However 42 % of Ohio Republicans imagine Trump, the ballot discovered. Taken along with the respondents who say they’re “undecided,” that determine is 68 %.
Legislation enforcement and metropolis officers in Springfield have firmly rejected the allegation — which was amplified by Trump on the controversy stage and by his working mate JD Vance and their allies, dovetailing with Republican marketing campaign guarantees and inflated claims on immigration and the US-Mexico border.
The claims appeared to gasoline loss of life threats in addition to hoax bomb threats that quickly closed faculties and metropolis buildings and compelled hospitals into lockdown.
Governor Mike DeWine, a Republican who helps Trump, wrote an op-ed for The New York Instances defending town’s “wealthy historical past of offering refuge for the oppressed and being a spot of alternative.”
Haitian immigrants, who’re dwelling there legally, have been an financial boon to town amid a inhabitants decline and a depressed enterprise outlook as town’s labor pressure dried up, DeWine stated.
“As a supporter of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, I’m saddened by how they and others proceed to repeat claims that lack proof and disparage the authorized migrants dwelling in Springfield,” DeWine wrote. “This rhetoric hurts town and its folks, and it hurts those that have spent their lives there.”
Trump gained the state by roughly eight share factors in 2016 and 2020 after Democratic candidate Barack Obama carried the state in 2008 and 2012.
Ninety % of Republican voters within the state plan to vote for Trump in 2024, whereas 95 % of Democrats plan to assist Harris, in accordance with the ballot.
The Washington Submit ballot additionally discovered that the race for Ohio Senate is in a lifeless warmth, with incumbent Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown at 48 % and his Republican rival Bernie Moreno at 47 % — inside the ballot’s margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 share factors.
