Cuban exile-turned-congressman unloads on Dem Senate hopeful over Cuba remarks

EXCLUSIVE: A Cuban-American congressman whose family fled Cuba's communist regime slammed Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon, accusing her of not going far enough in condemning the island nation's dictatorship.Nixon, the Florida state representative running to unseat Sen.Ashley Moody, R-Fla., pushed back after CBS News initially characterized her remarks during an interview aired Monday as a refusal to call Cuba a dictatorship."Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?" the interviewer asked Nixon."That is what people have told me.

I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have to take their word for it," Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), responded.FLORIDA SENATE CANDIDATE ANGIE NIXON CALLS FOR JAILING GOP OPPONENT ASHLEY MOODYSen.Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., campaigns with Democratic U.S.

Senate candidate, Florida state Rep.Angie Nixon, during a Fighting Oligarchy Tour campaign stop at The Cuban Club Courtyard on Oct.

17, 2026 in Tampa, Florida.In a now deleted tweet, CBS accused Nixon of refusing to answer the question, which Nixon responded to as "a serious failure of editorial reporting." "To claim I declined to answer the question is categorically false.

That is not journalism.It is misinformation," Nixon added in her online response.

CBS has since re-uploaded the footage on X and apologized for the misleading language. However, Rep.Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., whose family fled Cuba when he was young, told Fox News Digital that he still believes Nixon refused to acknowledge the island nation's regime. "There is no ambiguity: Cuba is a communist dictatorship that has imprisoned, tortured, and murdered innocent people for decades," the congressman said.

"Floridians deserve leaders who stand unequivocally for freedom, not politicians who whitewash the horrors of communism."Cuba has been under communist rule since 1959.RUBIO WARNS CUBA HAS INFILTRATED US WITH SPIES, CALLS COMMUNIST REGIME AN 'ESPIONAGE SUPERPOWER'Nixon did...