It has been a chilling couple of weeks for Springfield, Ohio, since former President Donald J. Trump pulled the city into the presidential race with baseless claims that Haitian immigrants there were abducting and eating household pets.
Trying to hold the city together has been Mayor Rob Rue, who took office not even a year ago, making several appearances on cable news and meeting with Gov. Mike DeWine.
He's sought to reassure the thousands of Haitian immigrants in the city that they are welcome and safe, urging his fellow Republican, Mr. Trump, not to come to Springfield right now.
This job as mayor was never supposed to have this type of intensity, Mayor Rue said, but when you sign up to serve a city, you never know what's coming.
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