While Donald Trump and JD Vance have spend weeks peddling a false and racist conspiracy theory about Springfield, Ohio, the state’s Republican governor has made a noticeable effort to defend reality.
Indeed, it was just a few days ago when Gov. Mike DeWine expressed dismay over the lies from his party’s presidential ticket. “Yeah, after a while, because it got cumulative, and then you keep thinking, ‘Well, they’re going to stop this,’” the GOP governor told Politico. “Well, they didn’t stop this, they just keep going.”
His frustrations apparently have not escaped the attention of his party’s national ticket. The Washington Post reported:
Donald Trump attacked Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) as ‘a Democrat liberal’ for not backing him up on the racist falsehoods about Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio.”
If the quote is accurate — the Post’s report has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News — it’s a fascinating peek into a bizarre perspective.
DeWine, for those unfamiliar with him, is generally seen as a conservative Republican in an increasingly red state. He was also a conservative Republican member of the U.S. House, a conservative Republican member of the U.S. Senate and a conservative Republican state attorney general.








