Florida Trident<\/a> notes that the grand jury report was later thrown out on Oct. 11 after the defense was denied an opportunity to respond in court.<\/p>\n\u201cTen million dollars that you [Moody] stole from sick kids,\u201d Nixon said. \u201cThat you put into political slush funds to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives that would have given us recreational marijuana and got political interference out of abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n
A brief speech from Orlando mayoral candidate, Fla. House District 42 representative and UCF alumnus Anna Eskamani followed the Townhall, with her saying she was ultimately there to show support for Nixon at this critical juncture. Eskamani emphasized it is important to narrow in on undecided voters when polling margins are so close.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith a timeline that\u2019s so tight, it is really important to be as present as possible and to expand that base,” Eskamani said. “I think the path forward is to identify those people who don’t normally get out and vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
College Republicans at UCF members attended the event with bingo cards based on things they thought Nixon might say. College Republicans at UCF Vice President Caleb Bernet said it was not a protest but rather a form of trolling and banter.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot disruptive or bad, but it’s good to have a little banter,\u201d Bernet, senior computer science major, said. \u201cWe try to do this from the Republicans’ side as well so that people can engage with their candidates. I absolutely agree with the College Democrats’ right to have her here.\u201d<\/p>\n
College Republicans’ at UCF Outreach Coordinator Kayleb Bridges offered his own version on why Nixon is attempting to mobilize young voters in the final weeks of campaigning.<\/p>\n
\u201cYoung people tend to be attracted by more populist-aligned candidates,\u201d Bridges, junior economics and political science major, said. \u201cI think she\u2019s doing what Fishback did by trying to mobilize more young people to show up.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Live Oak Ballroom fills up with around 200 students for Senate candidate Angie Nixon and Sen. Chris Murphy’s appearance on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Gregory Williamson, sophomore international and global studies major, came to hear both Nixon and Murphy speak, but felt Nixon\u2019s stance on Republicans was disconnected from reality.<\/p>\n
“I will say that I think both sides have been hyper-partisan,” Williamson said.<\/p>\n
Nixon’s youth director, Moricz, is on a multi-year gap from Harvard and said despite the polling deficit, the data has been very encouraging to the campaign, and they believe at this point she is likely to be the next senator for the state of Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe beautiful thing about electing someone like Angie Nixon to the Senate, it\u2019s that you\u2019re not just getting a lawmaker. You\u2019re getting a lawmaker and an organizer in one,” Moricz said. “You\u2019re getting someone who is going to lead a movement of Floridians the entire time that she is serving in the Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n
A makeshift press scrum following the town hall allowed Senator Murphy an opportunity to elaborate further on why he came all the way to Florida and what makes this particular race so important nationally.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m down here because I believe in Angie,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cAngie is somebody who is talking about actually fixing people’s problems. When she comes to Washington, I think she\u2019s going to move the whole national conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked why the focus was on talking with students at this critical juncture in her campaign, Nixon didn’t hesitate.<\/p>\n
\u201cYoung people are the leaders of today, not tomorrow. We need to be speaking to their issues,\u201d Nixon said. \u201cI would say they are not being heard by leaders at the state level, but they have the opportunity to change that come November 3rd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Senatorial candidate Angie Nixon and Sen. Chris Murphy arrive at the Live Oak Ballroom on Wednesday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,139,141,140,99],"class_list":["post-433665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433665","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=433665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}