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That video is going to run in Florida for the next 77 days. Sen. Ashley Moody — the Republican incumbent who beat Nixon’s fellow Democrat to win her seat — posted the pink megaphone footage with one line: “This is Angie Nixon. The Democrat nominee for US Senate in Florida. Not a joke.”
Florida has moved dramatically to the right over the past decade. No Democrat has won statewide since 2018. The governor’s mansion hasn’t been held by a Democrat since Lawton Chiles in 1994. Republican registration advantages have been growing, not shrinking. The state that gave Trump his biggest 2024 margin is now being asked by the Democratic Party to send a DSA socialist who calls drag shows wholesome family entertainment to the United States Senate.
The DSA is doing what the DSA does: nominating ideologically pure candidates who win primaries in activist-heavy electorates and then discover that the general election is a fundamentally different universe. Michigan’s El-Sayed is ahead of them on that journey. Florida’s Nixon is about to start it.
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