A second suspect has been arrested by Florida authorities for the assault on a Sen. Marco Rubio volunteer last week.
According to an affidavit obtained by Fox News, Jonathan Alexander Casanova joined Javier Lopez in attacking 27-year-old canvasser, Sgt. Jose Torres. The document also noted that the canvasser told police that Casanova told him he could not pass through the area because he was a Republican.
“After tirelessly working to bring justice to the victim, Hialeah Police Detectives have arrested and charged Jonathan Alexander Casanova for the attack which occurred on Sunday, October 23, 2022,” Sgt. Jose Torres said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
On Wednesday, following reports of the second arrest, Rubio hit at local media for attempting to downplay the attack and ignore key facts that show it was politically motivated.
“Local media spent 2 day treating the GOP canvasser who was attacked as a criminal & denying the attack was politically motivated” Rubio tweeted.
“Now a second arrest, a police report & surveillance video shows how biased & irresponsible the narrative they were pushing was,” the Florida Senator continued.
As American Liberty News previously reported, Torres was attacked by a group of four men while knocking on doors as part of the senator's get-out-the-vote effort in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, FL. (RELATED: Republican Volunteer Viciously Attacked for Door Knocking, Will Need Reconstructive Surgery)
According to Sen. Rubio's Twitter account, after the men warned Torres that Republicans were not welcome in the neighborhood they proceeded to attack him, leaving him with a broken jaw and internal bleeding.
Rubio is facing a re-election challenge from Rep. Val Demmings (D-Orlando) and is expected to cruise to victory in November's midterms. RealClearPolitics projects the race to be a “GOP hold” and reports Rubio leading with an average of 7.5 percent.
Over the past months, a number of Republican campaign volunteers across the country have fallen victim to politically-motivated attacks.
In Michigan, an elderly pro-life volunteer was shot while canvassing her neighborhood. (RELATED: Elderly Pro-Life Volunteer Shot While Canvassing Michigan Neighborhood)
In a separate violent incident, a North Dakota man intentionally mowed down an 18-year-old boy after engaging in a “political argument.” Shannon Brandt, 41, reportedly told authorities he believed the boy was a “Republican extremist.” (RELATED: North Dakota Man Released After Killing Teenage ‘Republican Extremist')
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I don’t care for Rubio but put them 6 feet under.
Typical behavior of liberal Biden democrats!
Lock them up and throw away the key. They belong in a cage.
The left is an unhinged terrorist group. Not only disastrous ideologies but murder, assault destruction looting and arson.
Will these four racist Democrats also be charged with a hate crime and be deported after serving their time? Maybe stack “election interference” on to the list of charges.
The Bible keeps on proving that democrats are the sons and daughters of Belial of the Devil.
Democrats AND THE MEDIA are responsible for the rhetoric that results in these attacks. All started with Barry and Maxine Waters and the shooting or Scalise- the lack of outrage from the brain dead public was a giving the cultural Marxists a pass that violence against conservatives is OK. You get what you vote for. Evils exists when good men do nothing.
Wouldn’t that be considered a hate crime?
They should sue Biden for inciting the violence that resulted in this attack…