LIVE Trump brings a last-minute rally boost to Darline Graham in South Carolina’s US Senate race

Live updates: Trump brings a last-minute rally boost to Darline Graham in South Carolina's US Senate race.

Key points

• Secretary of State Marco Rubio is insisting that President Trump and the U.S.
• Paxton's past, particularly his spearheading of a failed lawsuit to challenge the 2020 election results, "was an affront to our democratic institutions, " Bush wrote.
• Rubio insists Ukraine's problems with Starlink and Starshield had nothing to do with Trump.
• Rubio's comments to reporters in Mumbai, India, came as the administration has been taken to task for curtailing intelligence sharing and the supply of weaponry for Ukraine.

Live updates: Trump brings a last-minute rally boost to Darline Graham in South Carolina's US Senate race. Edited By BRIDGET BROWN, BERNARD MCGHEE and LUENA RODRIGUEZ-FEO VILEIRA.

JUST IN: Supreme Court rebuffs Trump administration restrictions on medical care for transgender inmates. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Rubio pushes back on criticism of Trump administration's backing for Ukraine.

Rubio remarked Ukraine would no longer exist if it wasn't for U.S. Backing.

Rubio's comments to reporters in Mumbai, India, came as the administration has been taken to task for curtailing intelligence sharing and the supply of weaponry for Ukraine. He remarked the administration would no longer take such criticism without a response.

"We're no longer going to be defensive regarding this topic. If it were not for the assistance of the United States, including under the Trump administration, there would be no Ukraine right now, " Rubio remarked. "Ukraine as a sovereign state would not exist."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is insisting that President Trump and the U.S. Administration more broadly had nothing to do with interruptions to Ukraine's access to crucial satellite data that Ukrainian office-holders say have compromised their ability to counter Russian attacks.

Speaking to reporters in India on Wednesday, Rubio remarked for the third time in four days that any throttling of network access to Ukraine was not directed or ordered by Trump or anyone else in his administration. He suggested, though, that the owner of the system, Elon Musk, may have been involved.

"What I can tell you with certainty is the president of the United States nor anyone in our system ever requested that any changes to that system be made, and that's what we said repeatedly, " Rubio remarked. "The president has nothing to do with the decisions that are created by Starlink and Starshield and by Mr. Musk. That's a private firm. Meanwhile, the president doesn't run that firm and can't direct that business to do anything."

Brother of former President George W. Bush endorses Democrat James Talarico in Texas US Senate race. By JESSE BEDAYNNational politics reporter.

That's Neil Bush, the brother of one Republican president and the son of another. This person authored a long Facebook post Tuesday night saying he voted early, and for Talarico over Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton.

Bush remarked his decision was two-pronged. Paxton's past, particularly his spearheading of a failed lawsuit to challenge the 2020 election results, "was an affront to our democratic institutions, " Bush wrote. Those who have "enabled" Trump, he continued, "have done enormous damage to the Republican Party."

Turning to Talarico, Bush observed that he'd never met the candidate, but that he's been "enormously impressed" and has seen "integrity, civility, humility" and an openness to listen to those who disagree with him.

"I have been a Republican for most of my life, and I still believe deeply in many traditional Republican principles, " Bush wrote, "but character matters more than party affiliation."

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