Florida’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon is fed up with racists and is calling out a hater over a voice message filled with vile remarks and bigotry.
And that’s not all. Nixon is demanding authorities arrest her Republican challenger over accusations of fraud related to Medicaid funds.
The latest developments just two weeks ahead of the crucial midterms are throwing Nixon’s campaign into chaos.
Nixon posted a clip of the disgusting voicemail she received from an unknown male who called her the N-word repeatedly on X on Oct. 15.
The state representative from Jacksonville challenged what appeared to be a white male caller to man up.
“Hey there. If you’re going to call my phone and lob racial slurs, don’t block your number. Say it with your chest,” Nixon urged.
Social media posters backed her up, with some saying they’d experienced the same kind of vileness.
“Hell yeah, I get these too Angie, you go and win! Damned cowards,” an X user concurred encouragingly. Others piled on. “This type of rhetoric has to stop. It’s evil.”
This commenter chimed in, “They’re such cowards! Sensitive little white men!”
A day earlier, Nixon made headlines after calling for her Senate opponent, Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, to be “locked up.”
During an appearance on “The Arena with Kasie Hunt” alongside Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, Nixon called Moody a “lying, cheating, thieving, scamming person.”
Before making the accusation, Nixon said Moody and other Republicans had spread disinformation about her wanting to abolish prisons and defund the police.
“Why would I want to do that when I want her locked up and punished in jail for what she has done?” Nixon asked.
The accusation relates to the transfer of $10 million from a federal program while Moody served as Florida’s attorney general. Moody approved the money from a Medicaid settlement to be directed to a foundation run by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife, Casey DeSantis. The funds were then funneled into political action committees, according to Mediate.
“The fact remains that Ashley Moody is a lying, cheating, thieving, scamming person who basically took $10 million from sick kids for the Medicaid program,” Nixon accused on CNN on Oct. 14.
“And she rerouted that into two political slush funds for Ron DeSantis to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives. She also voted to end health care for over 440,000 people here in the state of Florida,” an angry Nixon raged.
Hunt pressed Nixon about her claim.
“You want your Republican opponent locked up?” she asked.
“You know, she … yeah, basically, yes, because of what she did. Yes, I absolutely would want that to happen. Yes. I’ve been perfectly clear,” Nixon said.
A grand jury found the $10 million “misappropriated” but did not bring criminal charges because, as CBS News Miami reported, there was supposedly insufficient evidence.
Journalists with the TV station reviewed a sealed report on the theft.
“We recognize that this would be an impediment to criminal prosecution,” the report said, according to Mediate. “While we can’t prove who is responsible, we can plainly see that taxpayer money was misused for political purposes and we would like to see changes made to prevent this from happening again.”
Nixon says if she wins the Senate seat, she will call for a new federal investigation.
DeSantis appointed Moody in January 2025 to fill the Senate seat Marco Rubio vacated when he joined the Trump administration as secretary of state.
Nixon, a Jacksonville native and state lawmaker in Florida, says on her campaign website that she’s a “mother born and raised in Jacksonville who has spent her career fighting for hardworking Floridians.”
