Drug Crisis That Kills 75,000 Americans Annually Should Be Central to Election, Arizona Sheriff Says

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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It’s not the people flooding across the southern border affecting Arizonans, but rather what some of the illegal immigrants carry with them. Illegal aliens don’t stay in his state, according to Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb. Instead, they travel to “California, Massachusetts, New York, Chicago, Iowa, Alabama,” the sheriff rattles off. “But what we are feeling is, just like every state and every American family, we're feeling the effects of fentanyl,” he said. An estimated 74,702 people died from fentanyl poisoning in America in 2023, a slight decline from the 76,226 fentanyl related deaths in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lamb argues that the fentanyl crisis should be discussed more in the news and during the 2024 presidential election but is not because “to talk about it would mean you'd have to accept responsibility to it, and to accept the responsibility would cost you an election.” The Harris campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The sheriff joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what to expect on election night in Arizona, one of seven swing states, and the role the border crisis is playing the way Americans are voting this election.

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0:00.0	It's Saturday, November 2nd.
0:08.0	I'm Virginia Allen.
0:09.2	Welcome to the Daily Signal's first official weekend interview edition.
0:15.3	I am so excited that as we make some big changes here at the Daily Signal,
0:20.6	switching the Daily Signal podcast
0:22.3	weekday show to Top News in 10 and bringing our interview show into our weekend-only
0:28.1	additions, we are kicking off with a bang today. I am so pleased as we are in the middle
0:33.6	of election season. I am so pleased today to be sitting down with Pinal County,
0:38.6	Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb. We talk about his swing state of Arizona, what to expect there on
0:44.7	election night, and what those big issues are that are of particular concern to Arizona.
0:50.0	We also talk about the fact that Arizona is, of course, a border state. And border and immigration issues are top of mind for voters in this election.
0:58.4	But an issue that Sheriff Lamb says is not talked about enough when it comes to border
1:03.3	and immigration is the fentanyl crisis.
1:06.1	He says the media and campaigns should be talking about this issue constantly. And yet, we haven't heard
1:13.2	nearly as much as we should have about the federal crisis during this election, according to
1:18.3	Mark Lamb. Well, stay tuned for my conversation. And don't forget to hit subscribe so you're
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