Sen. Sherrod Brown, facing tough reelection odds in November, is keeping relatively quiet about immigration — and the false conspiracy theories about Haitian migrants who live in his home state.
Ask Brown, a Democrat, about Springfield, Ohio, and he will say he wants people there to live in safety and that he is in contact with local officials about the chaos engulfing the town — which has been the target of numerous bomb threats since Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance started spreading fake claims about Haitian migrants eating pets.
“They want the politicians meddling to just leave them alone and quit turning the heat up and quit trying to score political points,” Brown told NOTUS this week. “This kind of demagoguery hurts them.”