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Eric Hovde: “We are losing over 100,000 Americans a year to fentanyl and…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Just Facts - Addressing the Fentanyl Crisis - Hovde for U.S. Senate

Published | Video Starts at 00:13

The most devastating aspect of this open border policy is it has only fueled the fentanyl and opiate crisis that our country is facing. We are losing over 100,000 Americans a year to fentanyl and opiates. That is an astounding amount by comparison. We lost 58,000 young Americans during the Vietnam War, and yet we're losing more than that, almost double that every single year. (00:13–00:21)

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