Nixon says the DSCC has made no commitment to fund her and that "me and a few other progressive candidates are not on those text messages"
Angie NixonDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida and Florida state representative, interviewed on The Joy Reid Show
In a Joy Reid Show interview posted September 5, 2026, asked whether the DSCC had committed to fund her race, Angie Nixon said the committee had stated it would help her connect with senators who might back the campaign, but had made no commitment to fund her. She said text messages were going out about some Senate seats and that she and a few other progressive candidates were not on them.
Responding to
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.
“They have stated that they'll help me connect with senators right now to work to allow some of those individual senators to back the campaign. ... making commitments to fund and put money behind us, no. ... there's text messages that are going out in regards to some Senate seats. But me and a few other progressive candidates are not on those text messages. And it's frustrating because we know that we have the opportunity to flip this seat here in Florida.”
Interview
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.
Source and context
Interview
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Joy Reid's full video interview with Nixon, posted by The Joy Reid Show on September 5, 2026. Reid asks whether the DSCC has committed to fund Nixon's race, why the party spends in Texas but not Florida, and how she responded to a Bakari Sellers remark that Reid described as saying not to spend on her race.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Before the quotation
Nixon had just said she had heard from the DSCC about her win but not about the Republican attacks on her. Reid recalled that Schumer had vowed to raise $100 million to help Val Demings when she ran for the Senate, then asked whether the DSCC had committed to fund Nixon's race.
After the quotation
Nixon added that her campaign does not need as much money as other races, that she had not yet received funding commitments, and that she was pressing the committee. Reid then described what she called the Democratic Party's disinvestment in the South.
How this statement is classified
The label describes this statement's response within the context above.
Why this label?
The case asks whether Nixon's ideology and identity are why national Democrats have not committed major spending to her campaign. Nixon said the DSCC had made no funding commitment and that she and a few other progressive candidates were not on the text messages about some Senate seats. She did not say in this passage why, but she criticized the lack of commitment and pointed to progressive candidates being left out, which is in line with the ideology half of the proposition, though she did not say that was the reason, so we labeled it Condemned.
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