The midterms are almost here. Things are getting tense.
And a radical leftist candidate just made a shocking claim about Republican voters.
Angie Nixon, a leftist Senate candidate in Florida, appeared on MS NOW’s “Rachel Maddow Show” this week and made a bold claim that should raise eyebrows across the Sunshine State.
She insisted Republicans are lining up to support her against Republican Ashley Moody.
Nixon painted a picture of a campaign that is supposedly breaking through in places where Democrats usually get crushed. She described hitting the road hard in the run-up to Election Day.
“I am going out to try to hit all 67 counties before the general election day happens. And it’s been resonating. We have been in deep red counties like Putnam County. And what was interesting, it was supposed to be a town hall, not in a town hall, but actually a roundtable meeting of about 5 to 7 individuals. And it turned out to be over 100 people that showed up in a deep red county to talk about healthcare,” she stated.
“And that is because people like Ashley Moody voted to end healthcare for over 440,000 people here in the state of Florida. And I have Republicans that are now coming up to me saying that they are going to vote for me because, number one, they know that I am truthful and I have their back, and I will put the people over my campaign donors, unlike Ashley Moody.”
That story of a packed house in Putnam County is the kind of tale Democratic candidates love to tell when they need to convince donors and coastal media that rural Florida is somehow shifting.
Putnam County has long voted Republican by wide margins. A single crowded meeting does not rewrite decades of voting patterns.
Nixon’s attack on Moody centers on healthcare. She accused the Republican of casting a vote that would strip coverage from hundreds of thousands of Floridians.
Moody’s record shows a consistent focus on expanding options and controlling costs rather than expanding government dependency.
Voters in places like Putnam understand the difference between real help and campaign talking points.
The candidate then framed her entire pitch around a familiar Democratic theme: the idea that everyday people are being squeezed by powerful forces in Washington.
She cast herself as the one who would restore power to working families.
“This is about accountability in this moment. We need to put the power back in the hands of regular, everyday working people and stop allowing Donald Trump to basically shake down this country,” Nixon said.
“This is the biggest grift that we have ever seen in modern history, and I’m looking forward to going up there to Washington, D.C. and hopefully stopping it.”
Calling the Trump era the biggest grift in modern history is a stretch that ignores the actual record of the last several years. Working people watched energy prices climb, borders open, and cities struggle under policies pushed by the same party Nixon represents.
Many of those same voters saw tangible gains in wages and border enforcement when Trump was in office.
Right-populist voters have grown tired of candidates who talk about putting people over donors while relying on the same donor networks and media platforms that dismiss half the country.
Nixon’s appearance on a show like Rachel Maddow’s is not exactly a secret trip into the heartland. It is a performance for an audience that already agrees with her.
