GOP senator urges voters to be aware of foreign election disinformation

 GOP Sen. Marco Rubio warned voters to be aware of election disinformation coming from foreign actors, particularly Russia, Iran and China, ahead of the November election.

“Here’s the bottom line: if you see something out there, a video that just seems way too scandalous, I would pause for a second and make sure that it can be verified,” Rubio said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

He went on to address the false claims against Haitian migrants amplified by former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance.

“Those are claims that people — those are claims that people in those communities made. Maybe some have now recanted or moved aside from it. But that should not take us away from the fundamental truth, and that is … there is there are the real impacts happening when you move people into communities, as has been done by design by the Biden administration,” Rubio said.

More: Springfield, Ohio, was thrust into the national spotlight as Trump and Vance amplified debunked conspiracy theories claiming Haitian immigrants in Springfield are eating pet cats and dogs.

The false claims triggered a weeklong string of bomb threats. They have shut down schools, government offices and grocery stores. The chaos has put more law enforcement on the streets, including tower cameras and state troopers stationed at public schools — all, at a cost to the city that has faced budget shortfalls.