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Precisely because facts are facts. The article I linked has facts. To most people reading the first 5 paragraphs, OP article is just pointless anecdotes telling us what we already know: that people will vote Trump, and do so thinking his policy will actually fix the fentanyl issue. That isn't news. It's influence fodder. Trump having a policy, and that policy being demonstrably ineffectual is news and shouldn't have been buried under 8 paragraphs of rhetoric.
It's pro-Trump because it lists both Trumps name (recognition), an issue (relevance), and implies people are turning to him as a valid solution (positive recognition) despite the article itself 'eventually' saying his policies aren't one (deceit in plain sight). It wouldn't be if Trump had not been mentioned in the title, or the title had a negative qualifier in the statement (ie: Fentanyl deaths are causing some grieving parents to embrace Trump's empty solution).
I think you may missed the point of the article. Its not really an article about the Fentanyl crisis. It's an article about political rhetoric.
Remove the word Fentanyl and replace it with a number of other issues and the result is similar. Trump brags about doing things and talks tough but most of the time he does nothing. Democrats don't really brag about it, but many times put plans and policy into action to address the symptoms or the underlying cause.
The point of the article is that Democrats aren't doing so well communicating to voters that Democrats are actually governing with action and solutions and not just talking. However without bragging about it, Democrats get no credit with voters. The article postulates that because of that communication failure, they are losing some votes to Trump. As in, this isn't a policy failure on the part of Democrats, its a correctable communication failure.