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Florida Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon announces challenge to GOP U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody

On Thursday, State Rep. Angie Nixon announced she is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate this year, formally entering the 2026 race after five years serving Jacksonville, Florida.
Nixon frames her run around what she calls an affordability crisis, saying `Floridians are being crushed by an affordability crisis that Florida's leadership has ignored for far too long` with rising costs for housing, insurance, groceries, health care and child care.
A longtime organizer, Angie Nixon is a mother of five and runs a bookstore and community hub, with a decade-long record expanding child care access and confronting corporate price-gouging.
If she prevails in August, Nixon would likely face incumbent Republican Ashley Moody, appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and endorsed by President Donald Trump amid a more than 11-point Republican voter registration lead.
Positioning herself as a populist, Nixon aims to build broad coalitions of diverse communities in a Democratic primary with four other candidates, contrasting Florida's increasingly Republican trend.

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Florida Democratic Rep. Angie Nixon is challenging U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody

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Angie Nixon launches Senate run

In the end, state Rep. Angie Nixon couldn’t wait until a rally in her hometown of Jacksonville on Sunday to announce her next move. Nixon says she is running for U.S. Senate, ending months of speculation about what her next move would be. She enters a race where the Democratic nomination may be in reach, but a General Election win against incumbent U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody would seem to be a tall task. Nixon will be up against the state’s Republic…

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