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Kari Lake: “We've watched as 100,000 people a year are taken from us…”

Featuring: Kari Lake, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Arizona

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Ruben Gallego, Kari Lake face off in Arizona Senate debate

Published | Video Starts at 19:20

I want to secure the border, and we're going to do that. And right now, we've watched misses Lakin. Just a moment. Like Lakin, Riley's life have been snuffed out. We've watched as 100,000 people a year are taken from us because of fentanyl poisoning. And we will. He's allowed the cartels, he's empowered them to continue to funnel fentanyl in. And misses Lake, I would like to ask. (19:20–19:26)

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Claims 100,000 people die annually from fentanyl poisoning.

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