the race for the White House and an American city suddenly thrust into a political Firestorm officials in Springfield Ohio blaming unfounded rumors and baseless allegations about Haitian immigrants for multiple threats in the city former president Donald Trump holding a news conference today doubling down on the false claims he made during the ABC News presidential debate about Haitian immigrants Trump suggesting deporting them to Venezuela the mayor of Springfield linking the allegations to two days of threats against the city that forced the evacuation of two elementary schools today the mayor and Republican governor of Ohio both refuting the claims and tonight vice president Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania and what she said when asked about how she's different from Joe Biden ABC's senior National correspondent Terry Moran leads us off in Springfield Ohio today school children were evacuated from their classrooms again the FBI and local law enforcement investigating bomb threats against elementary schools the town hall and even City officials who say enough is enough but former president Donald Trump campaigning on the west coast doubled down today claiming again that Haitian immigrants have ruined the small Midwestern City and he said that if he's reelected he'll start his Mass deportation plan there they've destroyed the place and people don't like to talk about it because even the town doesn't like to talk about it because it sounds so bad for the town Trump thrust Springfield into the national Spotlight at Tuesday's debate making this false claim that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield they're eating the dogs the people that came in they're eating the cats they're eating they're eating the pets of the people that live there the mayor of Springfield Ohio the police chief the Republican governor of Ohio have all debunked this story about people eating pets and now there are bomb threats at schools and kids being evacuated why do you still spread this false Story the real threat is what's happening at our border the mayor acknowledges that this city of 58,000 is under strain more than 10,000 Haitian immigrants have arrived in the past 3 years they're here legally under a Biden Administration humanitarian policy the mayor says his City needs help not hate anybody on the national stage that takes a microphone needs to understand what they could do to communities like Springfield with their words President Biden condemned Trump saying Haitian immigrants are quote under attack in our country right now simply wrong there's no place in America this has to stop what he's doing it has to stop vice president Kamala Harris has spent most of this week in the critical Battleground state of Pennsylvania campaigning today she has not answered questions about the situation in Springfield what's your reaction to the bomb threats in Springfield she sat down for an interview with anchor Brian Taff from our Philadelphia station W pvi who asked how Harris can convince undecided voters some people have a question given maybe your current role as vice president of the United United States how different you are from Joe Biden and so I wonder if there are one or two spots policy areas or approaches where you would say I'm a different person well I'm obviously not Joe Biden and um you know I I offer a new generation of leadership recognizing that at this moment in time some of the stuff we could take for granted years ago we can't take for granted anymore um for example another um plan that I have that is a new approach is to expand the child taac credit to $66,000 for young families for the first year of their child's life because that is obviously a very critical stage of development of a child and so my Approach is about new ideas new policies that are directed at the current moment and also to be very honest with you my focus is very much in what we need to do over the next 10 20 years to catch up to the 21st century 52 days to go now until election days and the candidates are going to hit those Battleground States again and again kamla Harris she'll be back in Pennsylvania next week and Donald Trump he's going to be in North Carolina and Michigan with Terry Moran on the campaign Trail for us thank you