Angie Nixon, a Democrat and Florida state representative, handily defeated fellow Democrat Alex Vindman in a closely watched primary for U.S. Senate. Her election night victory is being described as a political upset after Nixon captured 56% of the vote when Vindman raised $16 million for his campaign, and Nixon raised less than $1 million.
Nixon’s win moves her to the November election to face Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, the former state attorney general.
In her election night speech, Moody contrasted America’s founding 250 years ago with the DSA and its stated goal to seize private property and private businesses.
“This is about voting for the future of this country,” Moody warned her supporters — and all Florida voters — from the stage.
AFN has previously reported how DSA’s bylaws rejected communist and Marxist ideology when it was founded in the 1980s. Those bylaws were changed in 2025 to welcom open communists, and now the party has emerged with a platform that rejects international borders; dissolves police departments and empties prisons; and allows their replacement version of Congress to select the president and Supreme Court, without 100 senators on Capitol Hill.
Some DSA-endorsed candidates are not DSA members, which allows them to distance themselves from the group, but that is not the case with Nixon, who is a DSA member.
Nonetheless, she was already attempting to downplay her DSA membership on election night, when MSNOW pointed out Florida has a large Cuban and Venezuelan population that opposes socialism.
“I want to be clear: I just recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America,” Nixon told MSNOW in an otherwise friendly interview.
AFR host Jenna Ellis, who is a Florida resident, told American Family News the primary upset can be traced to Vindman being a terrible candidate while Nixon is a well-known Democrat across the state.
Ellis said the Democratic Party is “insanely leftist” in her state, so she predicts Moody will “handily” win in November.
