Vice President Kamala Harris’ unsuccessful tenure as President Biden’s designee to reduce illegal immigration has turned “teenager mistakes” into “death sentences” through the increasing prevalence of fentanyl, Sen. JD Vance said at a Friday rally.
Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice presidential candidate, said he expects his own children will experiment with drugs when they are older — but that doing so shouldn’t kill them, as has been the case for many Americans unwittingly consuming fentanyl that’s cut into unrelated non-opioid drugs.
“I’m certain, because kids are kids, that one day, one of my kids is going to take something or do something that I don’t want them to take, but I don’t want that mistake to ruin their life. I want them to learn from it. I want their parents to be able to punish them,” Vance said in a speech to local police.
“I don’t want our kids to make mistakes on American streets and have it take their lives away from them. That is in some ways what this fentanyl crisis has done — normal American teenager mistakes have become death sentences because Kamala Harris refuses to do her job.”
Vance is a father of three — sons Ewan, 6, and Vivek, 4, and daughter Mirabel, 2. His mother is a recovering addict who used heroin after getting hooked on prescription pain pills, Vance wrote in his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
“I think it’s time for all of us to say to Kamala Harris: You want a promotion? You want a promotion after your record as vice president? We think you ought to be fired, and that’s exactly what we’re gonna do come November,” Vance said.
US drug overdose deaths are up significantly under the Biden-Harris administration — driven by fentanyl and related synthetic opioids, which are largely manufactured in China and smuggled through Mexico.
Synthetic opioids killed more than 223,000 US residents in the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration — or nearly four times as many Americans as died fighting in the Vietnam War — with more than 76,000 deaths in 2022 and more than 75,000 in 2023, according to preliminary federal data.
Vance was challenged by a reporter on the fact that overdose deaths trended upward during his running mate Donald Trump’s four-year term as president — topping out with roughly 60,000 fentanyl deaths in his final year in office, up from about 29,000 in his first year.
“If you look at the actual data, the fentanyl crisis really, really took off under the leadership of Kamala Harris, under the border czar policies where she opened up the southern border, where fentanyl got completely out of control,” Vance argued. --->READ MORE HERE
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