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Submit ReviewRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate senator JD Vance have spent the past few weeks pushing a false claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating residents’ pets. The FT’s US national editor, Ed Luce, and New York correspondent, Joshua Chaffin, join this week’s Swamp Notes to discuss why misinformation is a powerful electoral strategy and whether the truth matters to voters.
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‘It’s ugly’: Donald Trump’s Haitian pet-eating claim fractures Ohio city
Trump, Vance and American blood and soil
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