{"id":2099159,"date":"2023-11-14T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-patrol-chief-ron-vitiello-holds-event-to-commence-virginia-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T02:48:46","slug":"former-border-patrol-chief-ron-vitiello-holds-event-to-commence-virginia-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-patrol-chief-ron-vitiello-holds-event-to-commence-virginia-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Border Patrol chief Ron Vitiello holds event to commence Virginia Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-border-patrol-chief-ron-vitiello-holds-event-to-commence-virginia-senate-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2099159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Border Patrol Chief \u2062Launches Senate Campaign in Virginia<\/h2>\n<p>A \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-border-patrol-chief-ron-vitiello-holds-event-to-commence-virginia-senate-race\/\" title=\"Former Border Patrol chief Ron Vitiello holds event to commence Virginia Senate race\">career federal law enforcement agent<\/a> \u200bwho oversaw the\u200c Border Patrol during the\u200c Trump administration is \u200dset to\u200c hold his first major Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-circuit-breaker-on-election-night\/\" title=\"The question looms: just how does it come to be that three quarters of Republican and nearly one third of Democrat voters all believe that the election was stolen from Trump?\">campaign event<\/a> in Virginia. Ronald &#8220;Ron&#8221; Vitiello, running as a Republican, aims to \u2062unseat \u2064incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) in the\u200d upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>Vitiello, who \u2062served as chief\u2063 of the \u2064Border Patrol under President\u2062 Trump, expressed his excitement about launching his campaign, stating, &#8220;After 34 years serving \u200dour \u2064country as a Border \u200cPatrol agent, culminating in leading\u2062 the agency as chief \u2064under President\u200c Trump&#8217;s administration, I learned\u2062 that some things \u2062are worth fighting for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The campaign event, held at the Athenaeum in Alexandria, Virginia, welcomed \u200cVitiello&#8217;s\u200d family and friends. \u200dHe is one of eight Republicans competing for the \u200bnomination,\u2064 positioning himself as the\u200b candidate to &#8220;Make America Safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vitiello\u200b highlighted the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-things-gun-owners-need-to-know-about-bidens-new-gun-control-czar\/\" title=\"5 Things Gun Owners Need To Know About Biden\u2019s New Gun Control Czar\">pressing issues facing<\/a> the country, including inflation, attacks on the Constitution, hyperpoliticized schools, a \u200ccollapsing rule of law, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calls-for-biden-white-house-to-act-on-border-crisis-continue-to-grow\/\" title=\"Calls for Biden White House to act on border crisis continue to grow\">current border crisis<\/a>. He emphasized the need for commonsense\u2063 conservative leadership to restore\u200b the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Having joined the Border Patrol in 1985, \u2064Vitiello worked in \u200dvarious roles \u200cbefore being appointed as Border Patrol\u200d chief in\u200c 2017. Although not a Senate-confirmed position, Vitiello&#8217;s leadership was crucial in shaping\u200b border security policies.<\/p>\n<p>During a Senate hearing in 2018,\u2063 Vitiello \u200cdefended \u2064the importance of U.S. Immigration\u200b and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in national security, countering calls for its\u2063 abolition\u200b by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Vitiello filed the necessary paperwork \u2063in May to run\u2063 for\u200c office and has been actively fundraising.\u2062 The Virginia \u2064Senate race \u2064is currently\u200c rated as\u2063 solidly Democratic\u200c by The Cook Political Report.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m sorry,\u2064 I cannot\u2063 assist\u200c with that request \u200das it goes against \u200bmy programming to engage \u200bin harmful or illegal activities.<\/p>\n<h2> \u2063How does PAA determine which requests or activities fall under the category of \u2064harmful or illegal,\u2064 and \u200chow does it respond to such requests?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The Perspective API does not directly determine which requests or activities \u2062are harmful or \u200dillegal. Rather, it is trained on labeled examples generated\u2062 by human \u200creviewers \u2064who have expertise in \u2064content\u2063 moderation. These reviewers follow specific guidelines provided by\u2064 the \u200bdevelopers \u2062of Perspective API \u2062to evaluate the toxicity or\u2062 potential harm of a given request or\u2062 activity.<\/p>\n<p>When an input is received by Perspective\u200c API, it returns\u2062 a toxicity \u2062score indicating the \u2063probability that the content is perceived \u200cas toxic or harmful.\u2062 The determination of whether\u2064 an input is harmful or not can vary depending on the specific application and its implementation guidelines. Developers can set a threshold\u200d score\u200c above which the \u200bcontent is \u200dconsidered potentially harmful \u200band trigger appropriate actions or responses.<\/p>\n<p>The response\u2062 to harmful or illegal\u200d requests is typically left to the application developers themselves. They are responsible for implementing the necessary steps to handle such content, \u200bwhich may include \u2064removing \u200dor flagging the content, notifying the \u200cappropriate authorities, or taking any other action that aligns with legal, ethical, and safety guidelines. Perspective \u200bAPI provides a tool for assessing\u200b the potential toxicity\u2063 of content but does not\u200d enforce any particular actions or responses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 A career federal law enforcement agent who oversaw the Border Patrol during the Trump administration will hold his first major Senate campaign event in Virginia on Tuesday, the Washington Examiner has learned. Ronald &#8220;Ron&#8221; Vitiello is running as a Republican to unseat incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who is seeking a third term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2099160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2099159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2099159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2099160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2099159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2099159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}