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Ted Cruz: “This single bag of sugar, if it were filled with fentanyl…”

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 03:43

That's more than the entire population of Corpus Christi, Texas or Lubbock, Texas. Now, let's look at another packet. Something again, all of us likely have in our kitchen. 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. (03:43–03:54)

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