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With all due respect to the Buckeye State, the co-hosts of The New Abnormal think its elected officials could do with a little more backbone.
Gov. Mike DeWine and Rob Rue, the mayor of Springfield, both demonstrated their lack of spine this week, suggesting only in the mildest terms that Donald Trump might want to reconsider a promised visit to the city after the former president made the baseless claim during last week’s presidential debate that its Haitian residents were kidnapping and eating people’s pets.
The “unbelievable slander” by Trump and his cronies, including running mate JD Vance, has “led to numerous bomb threats and stuff like that—to the point where schools had to be closed and all sorts of things, all of which were extremely predictable,” co-host Andy Levy says. “As proof of that, I offer the fact that we…