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At-risk Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) today released a new campaign ad highlighting her work to hold social media companies accountable for the illegal sale of drugs on their platforms.
The 30-second TV spot, first shared with NBC News, features Minnesota mother Bridgette Norring, whose 19-year-old son died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in 2020. Devin Norring had logged onto the social media app Snapchat and purchased what he thought was Percocet painkillers, but it was actually fentanyl.
“Angie Craig has made this fight her own and held technology companies, pharmaceutical companies and drug traffickers accountable,” Bridgette Norring says in the ad. “Angie has even gone against her own party and fought for more agents and technology to secure the border.”
“I usually vote Republican,” Norring says, “but I’m rooting for Angie Craig because she’s relentless.”
The ad alludes to Craig’s work on a bipartisan bill with Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa that would require social media companies to report to federal authorities if illegal drugs are manufactured, trafficked or distributed on their platforms, or face severe penalties.
Last spring, Craig pushed for additional funding to install state-of-the-art fentanyl scanners at the border and also authored a Democratic letter to Biden urging the president to take executive action to secure the southern border.
In July, Craig became the first leading Democrat to call on Biden to drop out of the presidential race.
Craig faces Republican Joe Teirab, a former federal and district attorney, in November.
