Nixon says people are "gun-shy" about funding Black women, especially in the South, after Harris's loss
Angie NixonDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida and Florida state representative, interviewed on the MS NOW podcast "Clock It with Symone & Eugene"
In the same MS NOW podcast interview, Angie Nixon gave her race and gender as a second explanation. She said that because Vice President Kamala Harris lost as a Black woman, people are being very hesitant about funding Black women, especially in the South.
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Angie Nixon said in an MS NOW interview published September 24, 2026 that national Democratic leaders are reluctant to fund her Senate campaign, and attributed that reluctance to her progressive politics and to her race and gender.
“Folks are a little gun-shy because, unfortunately, Vice President [Kamala] Harris lost as a Black woman, and so people are being very hesitant in terms of funding Black women, especially in the South.”
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Where this statement fits
Are national Democrats holding back money from Angie Nixon's Florida Senate campaign because of her ideology and identity?
On September 24, 2026, Angie Nixon, the Democratic nominee for the Florida U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, told MS NOW that national Democratic leaders are reluctant to fund her campaign and gave two explanations: her progressive politics, and her race and gender. A spokesperson for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) told MS NOW the committee monitors all races closely, including Florida. The committee's executive director, Devan Barber, has said additional investments require additional resources. Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings on record as of September 30, 2026 show a joint fundraising committee that includes the DSCC, a $5,000 contribution from a leadership PAC the FEC lists under Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and DSCC transfers totaling $24,000 to the Democratic Executive Committee of Florida in its July and August reports, but most of the period since the August 18 primary has not yet been reported. This case sets out what each side has said and what the filings show. It does not decide why national Democrats have spent what they have.
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MS NOW article by Eugene Daniels, published September 24, 2026, reporting Nixon's remarks from the MS NOW podcast "Clock It with Symone & Eugene," a DSCC spokesperson's response, and accounts from a senior Democratic aide and a DSCC aide whom MS NOW did not name. We did not locate the episode's audio or a transcript, so Nixon's words are cited as the article prints them.
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This followed her ideological explanation ("I think that may be the main issue"). MS NOW reported that Nixon and Schumer had not yet met in person, though they spoke at an event the week before, and that she said she was working on a sit-down and had talked to some of his staff.
After the quotation
MS NOW reported that she said Florida is not a "red state" but "an underinvested state," and quoted her saying "They may not be treating it as a competitive race, but I have to continue to prove that it is." It also noted that she would be the first Black senator in Florida's history and is one of three Black women who are Democratic Senate nominees this year.
How this statement is classified
The label describes this statement's response within the context above.
Why this label?
Nixon asserts the identity half of the proposition the case tests. She attributes the hesitation to "folks" and "people" without naming an official or committee in this passage, and MS NOW frames the two explanations as her account of why party leaders are holding back. We labeled it Condemns because it criticizes the conduct at issue and supplies the second reason the case tests.
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- Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
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