Good on Mike DeWine for writing this, but it reads like a dispatch from at least a decade in the past. Trump and now Vance have turned the GOP into an explicitly anti-immigrant party, and there's no going back from that that doesn't involve Trump losing and Republicans moving on from MAGA.

Opinion | I’m the Republican Governor of Ohio. Here Is the Truth About Springfield.
I have lived my entire life near this city. Our people and our history deserve better than to be falsely portrayed.
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