Nixon says "people feel as though Black women especially, but Black candidates cannot win statewide offices in the South"
Angie NixonDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida and Florida state representative, interviewed on The Joy Reid Show
In the same Joy Reid Show interview, asked why the party seems to think spending in Texas is worthwhile but not in Florida, Nixon said the issue was probably the same thing behind Laura Loomer's attack on her: a belief that Black women and other Black candidates cannot win statewide in the South. She noted that Barack Obama won Florida twice and said Democrats can win there when they invest.
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.
“I would say, I mean, you already know what the issue probably is. Unfortunately, it is why Laura Loomer attacked me. For some reason, people feel as though Black women especially, but Black candidates cannot win statewide offices in the South. But Barack Obama won Florida twice. And we can actually win when we invest here in the state.”
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.
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Reid said the party was putting money into Texas, where James Talarico is running, which she described as at least as hard to win as Florida, and asked what Nixon made of the party seeming to think Texas was worth funding but not Florida.
After the quotation
Nixon said she had won the primary on a shoestring budget and that, if the party invested in a state with the second-largest Black population and second-largest Latino population in the country, it could win back voters it says it has lost.
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 gave an identity explanation for the party's reluctance: a belief that Black women and Black candidates cannot win statewide in the South. That asserts the identity half of the proposition, so we labeled it Condemned. Her words are a view about what people believe, not evidence of any decision.
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