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Dave Sunday: “I spent a lot of time in Central America and South America…”

Featuring: Dave Sunday, Republican | Attorney General-elect of Pennsylvania

On The Issues: Dave Sunday (2/21/2024)

Published February 21, 2024 | Video Starts at 07:27

I'm so grateful I did it. I mean, we traveled the world. I was in the Persian Gulf for Desert Strike. I spent a lot of time in Central America and South America and in the Caribbean doing counter drug operations. where we boarded drug runners vessels and tried to stop the drugs from coming up here to the United States. (07:27–07:34)

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Asserts that Dave Sunday was involved in counter-drug operations in Central and South America and the Caribbean.

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