Socialist state Rep. Angie Nixon pulled off a stunning upset victory Tuesday to clinch Florida‘s Democratic Senate primary against impeachment-whistleblower-turned-candidate Alex Vindman and will face Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) in the November general election.
Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, was projected to win by the Associated Press with 55.8% to Vindman’s 44.3% after 89% of the vote was counted.
The primary presented the latest test for socialist-aligned candidates following a string of other surprise insurgent victories in Democrat-on-Democrat contests across the country. Despite Florida’s large population in its southeast region of people who fled socialist nations such as Venezuela and Cuba, Nixon bested Vindman, a veteran whose twin brother is Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
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