Pressley calls for more national investment in Nixon
Ayanna PressleyU.S. representative from Massachusetts
In a statement to POLITICO, Pressley applauds investments in the Senate races of Scott Colom in Mississippi and Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan but says "we need to see more of that for Angie Nixon".
“we need to see more of that for Angie Nixon”
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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.
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Original reporting distinguishes fundraising assistance from advertising commitments and records competing arguments about resource allocation. Statements given earlier in the week are identified as such.
Before the quotation
POLITICO reports that Pressley has sharply criticized the DSCC for not making equitable investment in progressive and diverse candidates such as Nixon, Colom and El-Sayed.
After the quotation
POLITICO dates the statement only to the week of its October 24 report. The article then reports that Colom and Nixon also pressed for more resources in interviews.
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Why this label?
Relative to whether national Democrats are holding back money from Nixon's campaign because of her ideology and identity, Pressley says Nixon needs more of the investment Colom and El-Sayed received, after criticizing the DSCC for not making "equitable investment in progressive and diverse candidates". She criticizes the holdback and ties it to candidates' politics and diversity, so condemns fits.
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Nixon says Democrats made a huge mistake by not investing in Florida
“The Democrats have been making a mistake by under investing in this state period. Democrats, they made a huge mistake by not investing in this state, and we have seen the devastation of it all across the country. There are laws that are now on the books in states all across the country because Florida was ground zero. We’ve been the testing ground. And then some of those same laws have been federalized; those anti-DEI laws, the stop woke laws, right, the halo bill where they made it so you can’t be 25-50 feet away from a police officer while they’re arresting folks because...if they tell you to get away because they can, you know, now arrest you for that. And the only reason that they created the halo bill is it was after George Floyd was murdered, was executed. And they don’t want people to catch bad cops doing bad things. And so it is just devastating. People should not divest from the state of Florida. They should invest in the state of Florida.”Read statement
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