Florida’s Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) Senate candidate Angie Nixon is running on a platform of abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), finding a “swift” path to citizenship for illegal aliens, halting “mass incarceration,” and implementing universal healthcare. Nixon, a Democrat member of Florida’s House of Representatives, won her primary in a surprise upset against famed Trump hater Alex Vindman. She is running on a socialist campaign that includes several radical talking points which Democrat primary voters have embraced across the country.
Her campaign website states that she will fight for the “Working Families Guarantee,” which includes a swath of free programs: Medicare for All, free childcare, free paid family and sick leave, a national rent freeze and moratorium on evictions, and a universal jobs program. She claims she will pay for these measures by taxing billionaires, getting “big money” out of politics, and halting spending on overseas wars and violence. Her priority list has Medicare for All at the top, promising a program that provides treatment “free at the point of service, with no premiums, no deductibles, no copays, and no surprise bills.” This includes “reproductive” care, which for the left includes abortion. The free services do not end there. Nixon is campaigning on pre-kindergarten — a socialist policy with high favorability across America — as well as universal childcare. New York City’s Zohran Mamdani has happily touted the inclusion of universal childcare for two-year-olds, seeing it as a winning issue with the leftwing base.
