Another democratic socialist victory – Angie Nixon in Florida – sends shock waves through party establishment
‘They call us extreme, they call us radical,’ the progressive candidate said. ‘But I think people see through that’ In conservative Florida , Alex Vindman – a retired army intelligence officer who blew this whistle on Donald Trump in his first term – appeared set to carry the Democratic establishment banner as the party’s staged a long-shot bid to topple a Republican US senator. Florida’s Democratic voters had other ideas. Democratic socialist Angie Nixon emerged a surprise victor in the US Senate primary on Tuesday, after a campaign in which she was outfunded and outspent by Vindman at a ratio of more than 10 to 1. Her triumph sent shock waves through the Democratic party machine, as it prepares to mount a challenge to the incumbent Republican senator, Ashley Moody, in November’s US midterm elections. She only recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America, and was not endorsed by them.
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Accordingly, the party’s hierarchy was preparing to send dollars and resources to bolster his campaign. She is also set to face trial next month – charged with trespassing and resisting an officer without violence – after a sit-in protest at the office of the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, in May.
