When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz asked a rally crowd in Michigan if they had expected former President Donald Trump to burn part of Tuesday’s night’s presidential debate on false claims about pet-eating Haitian migrants in Ohio, the crowd responded by breaking out into chants of “we’re not eating cats.”
The rebuke, recorded by journalists in attendance, was to the cadence of the Harris-Walz campaign catchphrase “we’re not going back,” which is frequently chanted at the vice president’s rallies.
In response to the cat-chant at Thursday’s rally, Walz said, “It would be funnier, too, if it weren’t so dangerous.”
“It’s not as if I didn’t warn these guys a few months ago: You mess with cat people and you will find out,” he said. “They did. So beautiful strategy there.”

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