Only I can fix it · 2016 campaign · № 12

Only I can fix it

Only he would stop heroin pouring in through the border

“It's pouring in through the border. I'm the only one that's going to stop it. The politicians all talk no action”

Said

March 29, 2016, Press conference, Janesville, Wisconsin

Subject

heroin pouring across the border

Topic

Other

Era

2016 campaign

What happened

The CDC reported an estimated 93,331 U.S. overdose deaths in 2020, up 29.4% from 72,151 in 2019. Southwest border apprehensions also rose to 851,508 in fiscal 2019, more than double the prior year.

Sources

1. Press Conference, Janesville, WI (transcript) Trump Campaign Corpus (GitHub), Mar 29, 2016
2. Drug Overdose Deaths in the U.S. Top 100,000 Annually / Provisional 2020 data CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Jul 14, 2021
3. Southwest Border Migration FY 2019 U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Nov 14, 2019