The attention on Springfield then became amplified again when the Republican vice presidential candidate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, took to X to claim that people in the city have had their “pets abducted and eaten by people who shouldn’t be in this country.”

A sheriff in Portage County, Ohio, is being criticized for encouraging his Facebook followers to keep tabs on community members who support Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election. In posts he shared Friday from two separate accounts,