Perhaps but I reckon he would have known that the cats and dogs quote would get a very large amount of attention from voters and a multitude of voters would have googled Springfield to see what was happening.
I googled it and even though I didn’t get much in the way of proof that the recently arrived Haitians were eating up the cat and dog population, there was plenty of information about a large town under duress.
It’s a clever way to get people to focus on a problem that many communities are now suffering.
He can build on the idea, especially as there’s plenty of residents of Springfield who are adamant that the Pet story is real and then point out the plethora of other issues facing this community’s problems with being overrun with Recent Arrivals.
Excessive immigration is a curse to any Country, in that it drastically reduces the standard of living of All the middle classes and lower classes .
