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Angie Nixon could have won Florida. National Democrats failed her (www.salon.com)
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Since her shock primary win in August, Nixon has complained about Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee recalcitrance to anyone who will listen. In September, she told MS NOW hosts Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was less than thrilled about her race.

“When I did speak with Sen. Schumer on the phone, it was basically a ‘we will see,’” she said. “He’s going to look into it. That’s what was said, that he’s going to look into it.”

Nixon went on to say that Democrats were wary of throwing in behind a Black woman in the South following Kamala Harris’ 2024 loss: “Folks are a little gun-shy because, unfortunately, Vice President Harris lost as a Black woman, and so people are being very hesitant in terms of funding Black women, especially in the South.”

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To add onto that, the demographics in Florida have been shifting conservative for quite some time, they went from electing Obama in 2012 to having no state elected Democrats in 2023 for the first time since reconstruction, it's actually amazing it was close.

“Republicans focused on the ultimate goal, they thought things out in 10-year cycles. They built a permanent campaign apparatus. They started recruiting candidates to run for local office and springboarding them into higher office. They registered voters and managed the margins. Florida is now mecca for MAGA, it is the one safe space and lighthouse for Republican MAGA voters across the United States.”

~Fernand Amandi, Democratic pollster and strategist from Miami

For those who think it could have received more support and effort, I say it also could have received less.

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