Florida’s Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Angie Nixon, has reached her limit with racist abuse and is calling out a caller who left a voice message filled with vile slurs and bigotry.
And that’s not all. Nixon is urging authorities to arrest her Republican challenger on allegations of fraud connected to Medicaid funds.
These developments come just two weeks before the pivotal midterm elections, throwing Nixon’s campaign into turmoil.
Nixon posted a clip of the repulsive voicemail she received from an unidentified man who repeatedly used the N-word on X on Oct. 15.
The Jacksonville-based state representative challenged what appeared to be a white male caller to show courage.
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“Hey there. If you’re going to call my phone and lob racial slurs, don’t block your number. Say it with your chest,” Nixon urged.
People on social media backed her up, with some saying they’d faced the same kind of vileness.
“Hell yeah, I get these too Angie, you go and win! Damned cowards,” an X user encouraged. Others piled on. “This type of rhetoric has to stop. It’s evil.”
One commenter added, “They’re such cowards! Sensitive little white men!”
A day earlier, Nixon drew attention by calling for her Senate foe, Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, to be “locked up.”
During an appearance on “The Arena with Kasie Hunt” with Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, Nixon labeled Moody as a “lying, cheating, thieving, scamming person.”
Before making the accusation, Nixon said Moody and other Republicans had spread misinformation about her plans to abolish prisons and defund the police.
“Why would I want to pursue that when I want her locked up and punished in jail for what she has done?” Nixon asked.
A grand jury found the $10 million “misappropriated” but did not bring criminal charges due to what CBS News Miami described as insufficient evidence.
Journalists with the TV station reviewed a sealed report on the theft.
“We recognize that this would be an impediment to criminal prosecution,” the report stated, per Mediate. “While we can’t prove who is responsible, we can clearly see that taxpayer funds were misused for political purposes and we would like to see changes made to prevent this from happening again.”
Nixon says that if she wins the Senate seat, she will call for a new federal investigation.
DeSantis appointed Moody in January 2025 to fill the Senate seat Marco Rubio vacated when he joined the Trump administration as secretary of state.
Nixon, a Jacksonville native and Florida state lawmaker, states on her campaign website that she’s a “mother born and raised in Jacksonville who has spent her career fighting for hardworking Floridians.”
