{"id":438478,"date":"2026-10-26T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438478\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:44:07","slug":"angie-nixon-to-make-campaign-stops-in-fort-myers-ahead-of-senate-race-southwest-florida-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/438478\/","title":{"rendered":"Angie Nixon to make campaign stops in Fort Myers ahead of senate race | Southwest Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon is making campaign stops in Fort Myers on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon is scheduled to appear at three locations in Lee County. Her first stop is at the Quality Life Center on Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard from noon to 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>She will then visit the Ella Piper Senior Center on Dr. Ella Piper Way from 1:45 p.m. to around 2:30 p.m. Her final stop is at Mildred&#8217;s Restaurant on Michigan Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon is running against Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody for Florida&#8217;s U.S. Senate seat. Moody spoke during a rally\u00a0during<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/southwest_florida\/president-trump-wraps-up-fort-myers-rally-ahead-of-midterm-elections-see-the-highlights\/article_59af061e-066f-4037-a15e-acef3275bceb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0President<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/southwest_florida\/president-trump-wraps-up-fort-myers-rally-ahead-of-midterm-elections-see-the-highlights\/article_59af061e-066f-4037-a15e-acef3275bceb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0Donald Trump&#8217;s visit to Fort\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/southwest_florida\/president-trump-wraps-up-fort-myers-rally-ahead-of-midterm-elections-see-the-highlights\/article_59af061e-066f-4037-a15e-acef3275bceb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Myers\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Others who spoke included Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, U.S. Sens. Rick Scott, S. Rep. Greg Steube, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson and Jim Schwartzel, a Republican running for Florida\u2019s 19th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>The midterm election is on November 3.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Schwartzel is the president of Sun Broadcasting, which owns local media outlets, including 92.5 FOX News, The CW and FOX Florida, which air WINK News. Schwartzel has no involvement in WINK News editorial decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon is making campaign stops in Fort Myers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18523,209,211,210,28,897,356,171381,171382,34990],"class_list":["post-438478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-angie-nixon","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-lee-county","tag-presidency-of-the-united-states","tag-senate-race","tag-united-states-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438478","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=438478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}