Another democratic socialist victory – Angie Nixon in Florida – sends shock waves through party establishment
‘They call us extreme, they call us radical,’ the progressive candidate said. ‘But I think people see through that’
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It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
In conservative https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida">Florida, Alex Vindman – a retired army intelligence officer who blew this whistle on https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump in his first term – appeared set to carry the Democratic establishment banner as the party’s staged a long-shot bid to topple a Republican US senator.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/19/angie-nixon-florida-democratic-socialist">Continue reading...Donalds, Nixon win key US primaries
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