Felines have clawed their way from being the focus of silly internet videos to a serious presidential campaign issue just as former President Donald Trump hosts a rally on Long Island.
Haitian immigrants and their supporters in Nassau County pounced on Trump’s claim that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating cats — an allegation that his running mate, Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance, told CNN on Sunday that he made up. “Childless cat ladies” hissed when Vance mocked them, turning the phrase into a rallying cry in support of the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris. And students from Nassau Community College and Hofstra University — the home of the Lions and the Pride, respectively — howled as Trump’s rally and the ensuing protests brought so much traffic to neighboring Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale on Tuesday that classes were canceled.
