Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

What makes you believe that the Dems will not be behind the campaign?

Please bring us all up to date on the GOP's accomplishments in health and safety, lowering of prescription drug pricing, expanding healthcare, ANYTHING to help the people you think have been overlooked.

Oh wait I forgot, it's the usual GOP bullshit....

On balance it looks like conspiracy theorizing of fentanyl didn't work in the midterms, because WTF had the GOP done about the problem during the 4 years of Trump?

In close races, Republicans attack Democrats over fentanyl and the overdose crisis
October 27, 20225:00 AM ET

Conspiracy theories and culture war jabs

Other Republican attacks are completely divorced from the facts.

In Ohio, Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance echoed a right-wing conspiracy theory that Democrats are deliberately allowing Mexican drug cartels to smuggle fentanyl into the U.S.

"If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl ... and it does look intentional," Vance said in an April interview with the right-wing media outlet Gateway Pundit.

In fact, efforts to target the drug cartels inside Mexico collapsed in 2020 during the final months of the Trump administration. Over the last two years the Biden administration has scrambled — without much success, according to most experts — to reduce the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.

In one of the Ohio Senate debates this fall, Democrat Tim Ryan counter-punched Vance on the drug issue, arguing that by embracing a conspiracy theory, the Republican had aligned himself with an "extremist movement."

"Who says that the president of the United States is intentionally trying to kill people with fentanyl?" Ryan asked.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/27/1130841000/drugs-overdoses-campaign-ryan-hampton