It’s not the people flooding across the southern border affecting Arizonans, but rather what some of the illegal immigrants carry with them.
Illegal aliens don’t stay in his state, according to Pinal County, Arizona Sheriff Mark Lamb. Instead, they travel to “California, Massachusetts, New York, Chicago, Iowa, Alabama,” the sheriff rattles off. “But what we are feeling is, just like every state and every American family, we're feeling the effects of fentanyl,” he said.
An estimated 74,702 people died from fentanyl poisoning in America in 2023, a slight decline from the 76,226 fentanyl related deaths in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lamb argues that the fentanyl crisis should be discussed more in the news and during the 2024 presidential election but is not because “to talk about it would mean you'd have to accept responsibility to it, and to accept the responsibility would cost you an election.”
The Harris campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
The sheriff joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what to expect on election night in Arizona, one of seven swing states, and the role the border crisis is playing the way Americans are voting this election.
TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
The corporate media claims former President Donald Trump suggested during a campaign event that Liz Cheney should have guns "trained on her face."
Mark Cuban is a businessman and a vocal Harris supporter. During an interview on ABC’s “The View,” Cuban claimed Trump never has inteligent women around him.
In October, the U.S. economy added 12,000 jobs. But Dow Jones has estimated 100,000 jobs would be added in October.
Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., said he has seen a political shift in the swing state of Michigan.
“It's interesting to see how Michigan has just grown in importance, and as a crossroads,” Huizenga told The Daily Signal, “quite literally the road to the White House, the road to the Senate [Republican] majority, and the road to our own majority in the House of Representatives, I think runs right through Michigan.”
Russia and North Korea have a long history of partnership, but it is unclear if the relationship “is a true alliance or more a marriage of convenience,” according to Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation.
“The longer it goes on, it seems a bit more of an alliance,” Klingner says.
“The two leaders, [Vladimir] Putin and Kim [Jong Un], signed a strategic partnership agreement earlier this year where they pledged to help defend each other, and Putin has sort of cited that as a reason for justifying North Korean troops being there because they're defending Russia against attacks by not only Ukraine, but he claims NATO,” Klingner explains.
The Pentagon announced Monday that North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to Russia to aid in Russia’s fight against Ukraine.
In exchange for troops, Klingner says North Korea is receiving “funding, getting cash, both direct and indirectly, likely food deliveries, fuel deliveries, and what is particularly worrisome is concerns that it may also be getting military technology.”
Klingner joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the relationship between Russia and North Korea and what the two countries' latest partnership means for the war in Ukraine.
It’s a race to 270. With just six days until the 2024 presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are seeking to motivate voters in key swing states across the nation in hopes of picking up enough support to earn 270 electoral votes and claim victory.
Trump will speak to voters Wednesday afternoon in North Carolina’s 1st District, a region that is anticipated to determine which candidates win the state’s 16 electoral votes. Harris will only be an hour away, holding a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In addition to North Carolina, states to watch on election night include Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. And Heritage Action for America Executive Vice President Ryan Walker argues that Harris should not count on winning Virginia, despite the fact that President Joe Biden easily carried the state in 2020.
The razor-thin margins in the swing states indicate that it may take several days for the American people to know who their next president will be, and some states, like Nevada, pose a unique challenge to determining a winner.
On Monday, the Nevada Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision that mail-in ballots with no postmark can be received and counted until three days after the election.
There is, however, a chance the winner will be known on election night, according to Walker.
"I think that the energy and enthusiasm gap is such this year that we'll know a significant amount of information going into Election Day," Walker said. "And if we can extrapolate those numbers and compare them to Election Day results in previous years or get some initial data on exit polling, there is a chance that the winner could be declared on election night despite some of these states having late arrival votes that they're still counting."
Walker joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the key issues on the minds of voters this election, and to predict when the presidential election will be called.
On today’s show, we cover these stories making news:
Former President Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago today, where he offered a "pre-rebuttal" to Vice President Kamala Harris' planned speech in Washington, D.C., tonight.
The Washington Post is receiving backlash for its decision to not endorse any candidate for president this cycle.
Steve Bannon walked out of federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, today. The former Trump advisor served a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol.
Steve Bannon walked out of federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, today. The former Trump advisor served a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 protest at the U.S. Capitol.
Coming tomorrow: An interview with Ryan Walker, executive vice president of Heritage Action for America.
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Podcast host for The Daily Wire and bestselling author Andrew Klavan's newest mystery novel examines American culture without being a political book.
"I've sort of taken the issues out so that I'm not lecturing people on what I think, how I think they should vote, or what I think they should think, and just describing the anger, the division, the ideological capture that's taking place," Klavan tells The Daily Signal.
