Vance doubles down on cat-eating claims

Senator

JD Vance

of Ohio, Trump's V-P pick, doubled down on their false claims that

Haitian migrants

were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Vance said on CNN that the claims - debunked by city officials - had come from "firsthand accounts from my constituents", and attacked the interviewer, Dana Bash, for fact-checking him, calling her a "

Democratic propagandist

".

"If I have to create stories so that the media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do," he said. When Bash noted he had said "creating," Vance replied, "I say we're creating a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it."