False Claims And Outrageous Accusations Dominate Second Presidential Debate‌

On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stood face-to-face for the first time ever and took the stage for the second presidential debate this election season. GAGE SKIDMORE VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS.

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Forget about raining cats and dogs. During the second presidential debate, Donald Trump falsely claimed that immigrants in Ohio are instead eating them.

And feasting on residents’ pets wasn’t the only outrageous claim to come from the debate. Post-birth baby executions and “transgender operations on illegal aliens” were also topics of discussion.

On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump stood face-to-face for the first time ever and took the stage for the second presidential debate this election season.

Following the debate, Talker Research polled 1,000 American viewers, split evenly between Republicans and Democrats and with a subset of Independents, Libertarians, or Green Party members, and looked to uncover the weirdest claims to come out of the debate.

According to the results, Haitian immigrants eating the pets of Springfield, Ohio residents ranked at the top of the list (27%). According to the Springfield Police Division, there have not been any reports related to pets being stolen and/or eaten. Republican vice presidential candidate Senator JD Vance had been circulating this rumor on X (formerly Twitter) just days before the debate.

In second place comes the claim that American women are seeking abortions “in the ninth month” of pregnancy and are having “post-birth abortions” (23%). ABC moderators were quick to cite that there are laws in place that do not allow abortion to extend after birth.

Third was the claim that all Americans, specifically “every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, every liberal, conservative,” were in favor of overturning Roe v. Wade and supporting a national abortion ban (14%).