New Culture War Cudgel: GOP Ads Blame Opioid Crisis On Migrants

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Addiction deaths remain a major problem in the U.S. as the public health focus has shifted to COVID-19. But as midterm voting continues, Republican candidates have spent millions trying to link migrants with crime and opioid smuggling.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, addiction correspondent Brian Mann, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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0:28.4	Politics Podcast at the same time when I realized that the female voice telling me which
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0:52.6	from Tam.
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