{"id":377610,"date":"2026-08-21T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377610\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:28:12","slug":"she-is-the-reason-this-country-is-broken-rep-angie-nixon-tells-wmnf-tampa-why-shes-a-better-candidate-than-sen-ashley-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377610\/","title":{"rendered":"‘She is the reason this country is broken’: Rep. Angie Nixon tells WMNF Tampa why she’s a better candidate than Sen. Ashley Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFlorida State Rep.Angie Nixon (L) and Rep. Michele Rayner in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 8, 2026. \/\/ Photo by Dave Decker via Tampa Bay Journalism Project<\/p>\n

Florida Rep. Angie Nixon might be the most-Googled politician on Earth this week, after she earned a double-digit win in her Democratic U.S. Senate Primary last Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Outfundraised 16-to-1<\/a> by retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Nixon earned 56% of the vote and immediately set her sights on Republican incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody who earned 80% of the vote in her primary, according to Florida\u2019s Division of Elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nixon, who hails from Duval County, was back on WMNF public affairs program The Skinny this Friday to talk about the fight she\u2019s bringing to the November election, address Moody\u2019s criticisms, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cAshley Moody is ridiculous, she\u2019s a liar, she protects pedophiles, and likes to steal our money,\u201d Nixon told the radio station. \u201cShe is the reason this country is broken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on the show, Florida Democratic nominee for Attorney General, Jose Javier Rodriguez, who is a South Florida lawyer that vows to enforce the state\u2019s minimum wage law<\/a>, among other promises.<\/p>\n

Listen to the show via\u00a0Apple Music<\/a>,\u00a0TuneIn, and\u00a0Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State Rep.Angie Nixon (L) and Rep. Michele Rayner in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 8, 2026. \/\/…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18523,69896,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-377610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-angie-nixon","tag-jose-javier-rodriguez","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377610","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=377610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}