A growing number of opioid-affected families are embracing former President Donald Trump's tough-talk policies against cartels. NBC News' Ken Dilanian investigates how the fentanyl crisis affects the 2024 election.
Dawn Allen wasn’t just a voting booth Democrat — she knocked on doors and donated money, including to President Joe Biden. But after her son died from fentanyl poisoning last year, she grew frustrated by what she viewed as Biden’s hands-off approach to the opioid crisis. Now she says she won’t vote for a Democrat, and she finds herself more in line with the candidate who has focused sharply on the deadly fentanyl epidemic: former President Donald Trump.
In 2019, the Trump administration scored a major win by getting China to regulate the production of fentanyl, which led to a reduction in illegal exports from there. But Mexican cartels then began importing from China the chemical ingredients needed to make the drug. And experts say those cartels made the business decision that an increase in deaths among their customers was a small price to pay for the profitability of using fentanyl in nearly every illegal drug.
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