{"id":127964,"date":"2026-01-22T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127964\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:22:07","slug":"state-rep-angie-nixon-plans-run-for-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127964\/","title":{"rendered":"State Rep. Angie Nixon plans run for U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e73cd041-e0ae-41c4-9fc9-5ff13a47a621\">State Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/08\/15\/democrats-slam-plan-for-immigration-center-in-baker-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angie Nixon<\/a>, a Democrat who represents part of Jacksonville, is aiming for federal office after her term in the Florida Legislature ends this November.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"1eb2212f-2db4-4533-80f2-cd9c10e571f6\">Nixon is kicking off <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2024\/08\/20\/nixon-trounces-priestly-jackson-in-state-house-district-13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her campaign<\/a> for U.S. Senate on Thursday, going up against current <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/02\/18\/casey-desantis-governor-unf-poll\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Ashley Moody<\/a>, a Republican.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a504e4f6-5bad-42ec-aa6d-8d38e78def5f\">Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ashley-moody-desantis-rubio-senate-replacement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appointed Moody<\/a> to one of Florida\u2019s two Senate seats last January to replace Marco Rubio, who left to join the Trump administration as secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"00dbbf7c-1b7e-4105-8d75-3ee0f5745f4b\">Moody will have to be elected this year to keep her seat. Nixon will go up against several other Democrats in a primary election on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Rep. Angie Nixon, a Democrat who represents part of Jacksonville, is aiming for federal office after her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-127964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127964","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=127964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}