J.D. Vance says it does not matter whether 'rumors' of pet-eating migrants are true

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Trump and Vance, she said, are implicitly drawing a contrast between "white 'Americans' with household pets like Fluffy and Fido as members of the family" and "immigrants who are "trouncing on that which is held dear.
36% : In crediting what he previously described as possibly false "rumors," Vance told Bash, he was simply "talk[ing] about what people are telling me," just as Trump said he was merely repeating what "people on television" had reported when they claimed "my dog was taken and used for food.
31% : That tall tale provoked wide ridicule after Trump repeated it during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris last week.
24% : Yet within a few sentences, Trump had persuaded himself that the allegations were reliable enough to establish "a very sad situation" crying out for correction.
24% : He recently argued that Trump had raised concerns that were valid and troubling enough to justify "a big debate" about whether electoral votes for Biden from battleground states should have been officially recognized, although "that doesn't necessarily mean the results would have been any different."
22% : During the notorious telephone conversation in which he pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the votes necessary to reverse Joe Biden's victory in that state, for example, Trump mentioned a rumor that election officials had "supposedly shredded...3,000 pounds of ballots."
14% : Bash, by contrast, argued that Vance and Trump, by "making unsubstantiated claims" with "racist undertones," were the ones who were making it difficult to have a rational conversation about "totally legitimate" concerns raised by the migrant influx.

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