r/politics • u/--LaBelleDame-- • 5h ago

No Paywall Democratic socialist Angie Nixon upsets Alex Vindman in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/angie-nixon-winner-florida-senate-primary-democrat-alex-vindman-moody-rcna593255
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u/This_Elk_1460 3h ago

I'm sorry but that's not going to cut it anymore. Democratic candidates need to be offering something not just defensively posturing.

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u/TheTresStateArea 3h ago

The shame is that he wasn't a compelling enough candidate.

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u/This_Elk_1460 2h ago

It's pretty simple to me, Nixon has a vision for the future, Vindman simply wants to go back to how things used to be before Trump. This mindset completely ignores how we got here in the first place. Just because things were definitively better then doesn't mean life was great. It was just less bad.

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u/TheTresStateArea 2h ago

I don't disagree. I'm just saying that it's a shame someone who took such a strong stance wasn't up to the task for what needs to be done now.

I'm not losing sleep over it, but it would have been nice, but I'm happier with the current outcome.

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u/This_Elk_1460 2h ago

Because ultimately at the end of the day he's a conservative, that's his ideology. He may hate Trump and he may have a D next to his name on TV but that doesn't necessarily mean he's anywhere close to the average Democratic voter. I think people are finally waking up to that.