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Ted Cruz: “Imagine 562 of these bags. That's how much fentanyl came…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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MUST WATCH Ted Cruz Details Staggeringly Deadly Threat Of Fentanyl

Published | Video Starts at 04:09

This single bag of sugar, if it were filled with fentanyl, could kill 905,000 people, almost a million people. This single bag could take out the entire population of Austin, Texas, the capital of my home state. Now Imagine 562 of these bags. That's how much fentanyl came into the United States of America in a single month. And how many lethal doses of fentanyl is in 562 bags? What came in in a single month last year, 510 million lethal doses. (04:09–04:23)

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Asserts that the equivalent of 562 bags of sugar in fentanyl entered the U.S. in one month.

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