‘I have to create stories’: Vance defends racist hoax about Springfield

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance admitted on Sunday to creating the racist lie about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eating pets. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Vance then insisted that he had based this creation on information from his constituents, but he made it clear that he was more interested in creating a media narrative than in being truthful. "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do," Vance...