During the election live updates, Vance defended his claims against Swift

US Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance in an interview with CNN said that rumours about Haitian migrants eating cats in Ohio’s Springfield are true after all. “We’re creating a story…we’re creating the American media focusing on it,” he added. Earlier, Vance said that the rumour was based on calls he’d got from constituents before acknowledging possibility “all of these rumours will turn out to be false”.