DSA breaks through with Angie Nixons Florida Senate primary upset, but Republicans expected to roll in November

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Socialists of America scored one of their biggest wins ever in Florida’s special Democratic Senate primary Tuesday evening when state Rep.Angie Nixon upset former National Security Council official and Trump impeachment witness Alexander Vindman.However, operatives from both parties are expecting Nixon and the DSA to get a rude awakening from Republican incumbent Ashley Moody in November.

“Florida was already a stretch,” veteran Democratic strategist Adam Bozzi told The Post Wednesday.“This makes it even more difficult, and [Nixon] is unlikely to get the national resources needed to win.

That money will likely be directed to other states.”“The good news for Democrats,” Bozzi added, “is that they’ve done an excellent job recruiting strong candidates who have won primaries in many other races like Texas [James Talarico], Ohio [Sherrod Brown], Alaska [Mary Peltola], and Iowa [Josh Turek], giving them a solid chance to win the Senate majority.”The expectations-resetting began the day after Nixon’s win, when election handicapper Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics shifted his rating of the Florida race to “safe R” from “likely R.”The DSA itself didn’t make Nixon’s job any easier when it commemorated what would have been the 100th birthday of Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro last week.Approximately 1.6 million people of Cuban origin live in Florida, many of whom fled the Castro regime or have family members who did so.The scale of Nixon’s achievement in becoming the first DSA member to win a Senate nomination or a nod for any statewide office can be summed up in the fundraising gap between her and Vindman.The state lawmaker raised a paltry $975,000 to Vindman’s $16.3 million war chest.Nixon scored endorsements from “Squad” Reps.

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