Nixon says Bakari Sellers "has no idea what's going on in Florida"
Angie NixonDemocratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida and Florida state representative, interviewed on The Joy Reid Show
Asked about a remark that Reid described as Bakari Sellers saying on camera not to waste money on her race, Nixon said Sellers has no idea what is going on in Florida, does not know what is on the ground there and is not from the state. She said she was not happy with what he said and that she knows Florida through and through.
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.
“because he has no idea what's going on in Florida. He doesn't know what's on the ground and I am not happy with what he stated. But again, he's not from Florida. He doesn't know Florida. I know Florida through and through”
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 looks at Cook Political Report ratings and decides not to fund races in the far-right column, but that strategists such as Bakari Sellers, whom she called a friend of Nixon's, had said on camera not to waste money on her race, and said she wondered how that hit Nixon.
After the quotation
Nixon said Democrats who say they care about Black women need to invest in her campaign. Reid then turned to the Republican side of the race.
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 disputed Sellers's winnability reason by saying he does not know Florida. In this passage she did not say whether ideology or identity affect funding. We labeled it Challenged the characterization because she disputes the premise that her race is not worth funding.
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