Friend,

The crisis at our southern border has turned every state into a border state. We are all experiencing the consequences of the federal government’s failure to secure our country, especially as we watch the fentanyl that’s trafficked across our border wreak havoc in our communities.

Virginia is no different – on average, five Virginians die every day from fentanyl overdose. As Virginia’s Governor, I have a responsibility to do whatever I can to stop this poison that’s killing people in our Commonwealth.

That’s exactly what I have done, including going right to the source of this crisis: the Texas-Mexico border. Drug cartels facilitate and take advantage of the border crisis to traffic fentanyl into the United States to be distributed in every corner of our country, including Virginia.

That’s why I didn’t hesitate when Governor Greg Abbott asked for additional resources to assist in critical border security efforts in Texas. I deployed the Virginia National Guard, and 100 brave Virginians answered the call to serve and protect our Commonwealth by going to Texas and joining the mission to stop fentanyl from flowing unabated into America.

Here in Virginia, I launched Operation Bold Blue Line – a partnership between Virginia State Police and local police departments across the Commonwealth to keep dangerous drugs off our streets. Since we launched this partnership, Operation Bold Blue Line has resulted in the seizure of more than 1 ton of illicit narcotics, including 47 pounds of fentanyl.

Unfortunately, our efforts to punish the criminals who sell deadly fentanyl in our neighborhoods have been blocked by the far-left in control of the Virginia Senate. Drug dealers who sell poison like fentanyl that results in someone’s death should be charged with murder, and I backed legislation in our General Assembly to do exactly that. But the extreme liberals in charge of our Senate derailed this commonsense proposal, siding with drug dealers over fentanyl victims and their families.

The only way we can take meaningful action to combat fentanyl and the criminals who sell it is by bringing new leadership to the Senate in Virginia. And we have an opportunity to do that this November when every Senator is up for re-election. If we flip the Senate, I’ll have committed allies in the General Assembly to pass legislation that targets fentanyl dealers whose drugs are ripping our communities apart.

I’m working hard to accomplish that, but I can’t do it without the support of people like you, who I know want to win the fight against fentanyl as much as I do. If you’re able to, please consider donating to our mission to flip the Virginia Senate in just a few short months.