“Rep. Tim Ryan “wanted to decriminalize fentanyl.”
J.D. Vance
Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio. Claim dated 26 Oct 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Ryan signed an ACLU pledge in 2019 to reduce mass incarceration, but he did not call for decriminalizing fentanyl. Ryan said he supported decriminalizing marijuana.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
J.D. Vance (Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio) made this claim around 26 October 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 October 2022, 5 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
J.D. Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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