{"id":77580,"date":"2026-08-18T19:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/democratic-socialist-angie-nixon-clinches-surprise-primary-win-in-florida-us-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:54:53","slug":"democratic-socialist-angie-nixon-clinches-surprise-primary-win-in-florida-us-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/democratic-socialist-angie-nixon-clinches-surprise-primary-win-in-florida-us-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic socialist Angie Nixon clinches surprise primary win in Florida US Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nixon bested Alexander Vindman to win Democratic nomination and now faces Republican Ashley Moody in November<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/18\/florida-primary-results-governor-senate\">Trump-backed Byron Donalds wins Republican primary in race to succeed Florida governor DeSantis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an upset for the Democratic establishment, progressive Angie Nixon won the party\u2019s US Senate primary in Florida, beating former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon, a state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, had significantly less funding going into the primary \u2013 with $975,000 to Vindman\u2019s $16.3m at the end of July, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/814438-angie-nixon-alex-vindman-fight-for-the-chance-to-challenge-ashley-moody-in-november\/\">Florida Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/18\/angie-nixon-alex-vindman-florida-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nixon bested Alexander Vindman to win Democratic nomination and now faces Republican Ashley Moody in November Trump-backed Byron Donalds wins Republican primary in race to succeed Florida governor DeSantis In an upset for the Democratic establishment, progressive Angie Nixon won the party\u2019s US Senate primary in Florida, beating former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman. Nixon, &#8230; <a title=\"Democratic socialist Angie Nixon clinches surprise primary win in Florida US Senate race\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/democratic-socialist-angie-nixon-clinches-surprise-primary-win-in-florida-us-senate-race\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democratic socialist Angie Nixon clinches surprise primary win in Florida US Senate race\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}