Police officers in Florida have confirmed an account claiming that a man who was badly beaten was canvassing for Republicans at the time, as a second suspect was taken into custody.
The Hialeah Police Department declined on Oct. 24 to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) account, which said a man was assaulted in Hialeah while wearing a Rubio shirt and a Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hat while canvassing for the candidates.
But a new arrest affidavit for the second suspect states that the victim, who hasn’t been named by officials, was “distributing political fliers for United States Senator Marco Rubio as well as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.”…