Vivek Ramaswamy is the latest Republican to draw attention to the embattled midwestern town of Springfield, Ohio, where he met with residents including one mother who told him her daughter was recently chased by a migrant wielding a machete.
A clip of the town hall circulating on X shows the woman telling the former presidential candidate that she fears for the lives of her two daughters as their town has descended into chaos following an influx of migrants and the corresponding media circus. Some of the newly arrived migrant men are targeting young girls like hers, the woman tells Ramaswamy. “She’s been followed around Walmart, she’s been stalked, she ran to her car, threw stuff down, she was chased. They were immigrants. She was chased by a man with a machete on her way to work,” the woman said. Police took more than two hours to respond after her daughter first called to report the threat, the woman added. “That’s how you know there’s no crime in Springfield, because no one’s reporting it.” A bustling audience applauded her story.
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Ramaswamy, who has carved out a niche for himself on the