MIAMI — The Republican Party canvasser who was brutally beaten in Hialeah on Sunday did not say the attack was politically motivated when police officers first interviewed him that evening, according to a police spokesman.
An initial incident report said nothing about politics.
But on Monday morning, after talking to the victim’s father, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted that the canvasser was attacked “by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood.”
