CBS News moderators countered Sen. J.D.
Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican nominee for vice president, on his campaign’s lies about immigrants during Tuesday night’s debate with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz . And while Vance didn’t throw the kind of unhinged temper tantrum that running mate Donald Trump did in a similar moment during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris last month, he still vented his frustration.
“The rules were that you guys weren’t gonna fact-check,” Vance complained to Norah O’Donnell, anchor of CBS Evening News , and Margaret Brennan, moderator of Face the Nation as well as the network’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, when they clarified a certain point about a town in his own state. Walz and Vance were tangling on the issue of the Haitian immigrant population in Springfield, Ohio, which the Trump campaign has sought to cast as a failure of Democrats’ border policy — with racist, utterly false claims that Haitians are stealing and eating other residents’ pets. Trump aired this smear in his showdown with Harris weeks ago, ranting that “they’re eating the dogs — the people that came in — they’re eating the cats.
” Vance helped to spread these rumors even while acknowledging there was no evidence back them up . A wave of threats against Haitians in the area and bomb threats to Springfield’s schools and city hall soon followed. Walz on Tuesday condemned the Trump team for their fear-mongering about immigrants in Spring.
