Daniel Driscoll, the Republican chief prosecutor for Clark County, which includes Springfield, Ohio, is calling out Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) for lying about crime statistics to create a story that the city is being overrun with violence.
Driscoll spoke to CNN's fact-checker Daniel Dale after Vance falsely claimed that "murders are up by 81 percent because of what Kamala Harris has allowed happening to this small community."
According to Dale, Vance's campaign claimed he was comparing the numbers from 2021, which had five murders, to 2023, which had nine. That actually calculates to an 80 percent increase, but the numbers are hardly reflective of the reality. ...