TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 State Rep. Angie Nixon (D-Jacksonville) announced Thursday morning that she\u2019s running for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n
The seat is held by Republican Ashley Moody who Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed last year after it was vacated by Marco Rubio who became U.S. Secretary of State.<\/p>\n
Nixon currently has Democratic challengers for the seat in the Aug. 18 primary. They are Alex Gould, Tamika Lyles, and Joshua Weil. Moody currently has one challenger, Michaelangelo Hamilton.<\/p>\n
The winners in the primary will square off in the Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a portion of the statement Nixon posted Thursday about her Senate run on her Facebook page<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cFor the last few months, I have been traveling the state, from Pensacola to Miami, hearing the same thing from families everywhere: the cost of food, housing, healthcare, and child care is making it harder just to get by.<\/p>\n This fight is personal for me. I\u2019ve spent my life standing up for working people, and that\u2019s exactly what I\u2019ll do in the United States Senate. Change can\u2019t wait, and I won\u2019t either.”<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. \u2014 State Rep. Angie Nixon (D-Jacksonville) announced Thursday morning that she\u2019s running for U.S. Senate. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34435,11751,35434,53042,2652,5142,10581,8131,28,63245,8853,116,118,117,634,123,35436,8987,11103,4214,63247,10418,232,63246,628,63244,19791],"class_list":["post-127928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news_shacks","tag-american","tag-angie_nixon","tag-ashley_moody","tag-central_florida","tag-congress","tag-dc","tag-democrats","tag-florida","tag-floridian","tag-floridians","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-local","tag-miami","tag-nixon","tag-pensacola","tag-republican","tag-senate","tag-shane","tag-state_representative","tag-tallahassee","tag-united_states_of_america","tag-us","tag-us_senate","tag-washington_dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}