Black voters in the key Georgia county of Cobb reacted to former President Donald Trump's wild claims that Haitian immigrants were 'eating the pets' in Springfield, Ohio.
DailyMail.com's pollster J.L. Partners' James Johnson sat down with eight undecided voters of color and showed them the most viral clip of Tuesday night's presidential debate in Philadelphia.
In the clip, the former president insists that 'in Springfield they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.'
While one woman said the comments made the ex-president look 'stupid' another man chimed in and said that Trump repeating internet conspiracies made him look like an everyman.
'He reminds me of the average person who maybe doesn't know everything and they're just repeating what they hear. But the thing is, a lot of people are repeating that stuff. So, that's why I click on with him,' the man said. 'They're hearing that same stuff and they're saying the same thing.'
DailyMail.com's pollster assembled a group of eight African-American undecided voters who reside in Cobb County, Georgia, a county that helped President Joe Biden turn the state blue in the 2020 presidential election
When Johnson first played the video, the undecided voters were quick to point out what Trump was basing his information on.
'Everything he says is based off a fact, but the details are off,' one of the three women on the focus group observed.
She noted that there was a report of a Canton, Ohio woman - an American, not a Haitian immigrant - who was arrested and accused of killing and eating a cat in front of several people.
'One person - she was American,' the woman said.
In August, a Springfield, Ohio resident claimed at a City Commission meeting that Haitian immigrants were eating ducks from the park - but those allegations have not been verified.
When one of the men brought up the duck claim, group members pointed out that ducks are often 'food.'
'That's a little different than a cat or dog though,' another woman replied.
Former President Donald Trump made bold and unfounded claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio eating people's dogs and cats during Tueday night's debate in Philadelphia
When Johnson asked the group if this stuff Trump was talking about was happening, members pushed back saying it wasn't the immigrants.
'The immigrants didn't do it. It was somebody that was from the United States,' one woman said.
Johnson also asked the group how Trump talking about the pet-eating made them feel.
'It's irrelevant,' answered one woman.
Another woman called it 'stupid.'
But it didn't appear disqualifying, with the man in a yellow polo shirt answering that it makes Trump seem like an 'average person' and makes the ex-president 'click' with the undecided voter.
