Rubio canvasser brutally assaulted in Florida, senator says

Ryan King

October 24, 03:59 PM October 24, 03:59 PM

A canvasser rallying voters on behalf of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was brutally beaten Sunday night while donning conservative outerwear, the senator announced on Monday.

The campaign staffer was wearing a T-shirt bearing Rubio's name and a Gov. Ron DeSantis hat when he was assaulted, leaving him with a broken jaw and internal bleeding, according to Rubio.

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"Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a Desantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida," Rubio wrote in a tweet. "He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw & will need facial reconstructive surgery."

In photos of the young man provided by Rubio, he was seen with blood running down his face and a swollen jawline in an ambulance. His eyes also appeared to be swollen shut.

Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, who was bested by Rubio in their 2010 Senate showdown, sent out a tweet condemning violence in politics.

"There’s no place for violence in politics. Senator Rubio, your canvasser is in our prayers and we look forward to those responsible being brought to justice," he tweeted.

Hialeah is a city nestled in Miami-Dade County with a population of over 220,000 residents. Rubio tweeted that the city was ready for a Republican surge in the midterm elections.

"Early in-person voting has begun in much of #Florida and #Hialeah is ready for a red wave #Sayfie," he wrote.

The Washington Examiner reached out to a Rubio spokesperson for additional information. The Washington Examiner is also reaching out to police for comment.

Rubio is vying for a third term in the Senate and is facing off against Rep. Val Demings (D-FL). He is favored to win the race by forecasters including the Cook Political Report and FiveThirtyEight. The incumbent senator also touts a lead in most polling. Voters head to the polls for in-person voting on Nov. 8. Early voting began Monday for dozens of counties.

Bipartisan group of lawmakers seeks to overview Apple program to use Chinese chips

Brady Knox

September 21, 10:10 PM September 21, 10:10 PM

A bipartisan team of senators have chips on their shoulders, asking U.S. protection officials to assessment a prepare by Apple to use Chinese elements for the Apple iphone 14.

The senators urged Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to evaluation the countrywide safety risk that would consequence if Apple ended up to use memory chips from China's state-subsidized Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., according to the Washington Submit. The letter was spearheaded by Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) and signed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-VA), and committee member John Cornyn (R-TX).

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“We generate to express our intense concern about the likelihood that Apple Inc. will shortly procure 3D NAND memory chips from the People’s Republic of China condition-owned manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies Co.,” the senators wrote in the letter to Haines. If carried out, the prepare “would introduce sizeable privacy and protection vulnerabilities to the international electronic offer chain that Apple aids condition."

The alarm was straight away raised soon after a Business enterprise Korea report on Sept. 6 discovered that Apple experienced additional YMTC to its checklist of NAND flash suppliers for the Apple iphone 14. The enterprise had beforehand utilized NAND flashes from Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Kioxia.

Apple pressured it does not program to use YTMC chips for the Apple iphone 14.

YMTC, described as a state-operate business, and China itself a short while ago overtook Taiwan to grow to be the world's leading provider of elements to Apple. YMTC raises fears for the United States, which fears chips produced by the organization could guide to the Chinese Communist Party obtaining U.S. details. The Biden administration went so considerably past yr as to explain YMTC as China's "nationwide champion memory chip producer," declaring the firm's speedy enhancement resulted from $24 billion in subsidies from the Chinese federal government, in accordance to the Washington Submit.

The authors of the letter urged Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo two months ago to position YMTC on an export blacklist, the report reported.