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Florida Democrat Angie Nixon accuses her own party of racism after devastating midterm defeat

November 11, 2026 | | Print Article

A Senate hopeful sang a familiar tune after her Election Day loss, but it wasn’t Republicans she accused of being “so wrong and disrespectful.”

(Video Credit: Don Lemon)

Following a week of GOP lawmakers, officials and talking heads opining on what they believe made even red states vulnerable to the blue wave, a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member likewise weighed in on what she thinks held back Democrats from wider victories. During a discussion with Don Lemon, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon decried her own Democratic Party for alleged “racism” when it came to supporting the Senate campaigns of black nominees.

Having lost to incumbent Florida Sen. Ashley Moody (R), Nixon joined “The Don Lemon Show” in a conversation that premiered Tuesday, where tears flowed down her face as she talked about the struggles of the campaign that included a suicide attempt by someone close to her.

She then insisted, “People are going to die if we don’t hold [President] Donald Trump accountable, if we don’t push for healthcare. People are going to die if we don’t push to increase the living wage.”

The failed Senate nominee, who’d previously accused outgoing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of being racist where it concerned his 2018 campaign — at the same time she claimed destructive riots in 2020 were “overwhelmingly peaceful protests after George Floyd was executed on the streets” — quickly turned on the purse holders of the left.

“It is so wrong and disrespectful for people to not invest in black leadership … I’m just gonna say it, there were no black flip seats on the Senate side,” said Nixon as she brought up the races in Mississippi against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) and Louisiana against Rep. Julia Letlow. “Like, none. If Scott Colom could have gotten a million more dollars early on, we would not be waiting right now for him to ‘win.’ We know he’s gonna win. If Jamie Davis would’ve gotten $500,000 to $1 million like in September, he would have won outright.”

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“I think people want our labor. I think people want our labor. They don’t want our leadership, and we need to have a real, long, hard conversation about how we show up, how we continue to time after time after time show up for the party, and they don’t show up for our leadership,” insisted the politician.

Despite the fact that Rep. Byron Donalds (R) succeeded in his election to become the first black governor of Florida, Nixon maintained, “I even think about, like, people are saying that I statewide, I came in last as far as statewide, but that is because, you know, there’s racism within the Republican Party and there’s racism within the Democratic Party. And the people that I brought into the Democratic Party to vote in the midterms, they voted up and down the ballot, probably as Democrats.”

While some saw fit to remind her about the gubernatorial outcome on social media, others found cause to support her position where it concerned the Democratic Party, going as far as to point out that outgoing Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett made the same claim after her primary loss to Texas state Rep. James Talarico, where she declared, “there is a reckoning that this party needs to have.”

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