Angie Nixon
D · U.S. Senate special election, Florida · Tier 4
Tier 4, “Critical / conditions aid”
Sitting Florida state representative who sponsored HR 31C, the November 2023 ceasefire resolution — rejected 2–104, with her and Anna Eskamani the only ayes, after dozens of lawmakers turned their backs on her as she spoke. Her campaign’s priorities page called for “Ending unconditional U.S. military aid that has fueled the genocide in Palestine,” plus surging aid into Gaza and the West Bank, an end to US support for illegal settlements, and Palestinian self-determination; the wording was still there on 11 September 2026, more than three weeks after her 18 August primary win. In a local radio interview reported by Jewish Insider on primary night, Nixon said of aid to Israel: “We cannot continue to send money to countries that are violating international law, that are violating human rights, that are actively destroying.” By 12 September the plank had been rewritten: the genocide and military-aid line and the self-determination line were gone, replaced by “a future of lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis,” an end to US support for illegal settlements, upholding the Gaza ceasefire agreement, aid to Gaza among other crisis zones, and the Leahy Law. The rest of the page kept its wording under new headings. In a Newsweek interview published 26 September 2026 she said “At this moment, no, I do not support sending any money over to Israel” and that Netanyahu “needs to go,” adding, “I believe Israelis have a right to exist.” At a town hall in southwestern Palm Beach County on 28 September 2026, challenged by a voter over the word, Nixon said that “what’s happening over there is in fact a genocide. That is how I feel,” adding, “I do not support antisemitism in any forms, and we need to call it out.” In a New York magazine profile published October 20, 2026, she said a donor had recently asked her to stop calling what is happening in Gaza a genocide: “I said, ‘I respect you, but based on this, this, and this, I would have to disagree.’ … I didn’t get a donation.” Asked on POLITICO’s The Conversation, released October 23, 2026, whether she considers Israel an ally of the United States, she said, “I consider them an ally, I guess,” objected that “Netanyahu’s administration is causing so much mass destruction,” and said, “I am not okay with writing a blank check to any ally. I believe we need to scrutinize each and every dollar that goes outside of the United States”; pressed, she said, “they’re an ally, but they are also an ally that is committing war crimes,” adding, “we need to treat them as such.” Endorsed by USCPR Action and Track AIPAC. Zero AIPAC/DMFI money to her committee.
A 4. Her strongest act is legislative: she sponsored Florida’s ceasefire resolution in November 2023 and carried it to a 2–104 defeat as dozens of lawmakers turned their backs on her. She named the genocide on her own platform, refuses AIPAC money, and holds a USCPR Action endorsement, whose published criteria include supporting the BDS movement. Her cutoff of aid is less firm than it was: on MS NOW in August 2026 she said “I do not support sending any money or any weapons to Israel at this moment,” and she repeated the money half to Newsweek in late September (“At this moment, no, I do not support sending any money over to Israel”), but on POLITICO’s The Conversation in October she called Israel “an ally, I guess” and spoke of refusing “a blank check to any ally” and scrutinizing “each and every dollar,” not of ending aid, while saying Israel is “an ally that is committing war crimes” and “we need to treat them as such.” Her written plank’s arms line was “Ending unconditional U.S. military aid,” and in mid-September her campaign rewrote the plank and dropped the genocide and military-aid line, though in October she said she had refused a donor’s request to stop calling it a genocide. “Apartheid” appears only in third-party endorsement copy, and in the Newsweek interview she said “I believe Israelis have a right to exist.” Counter-case: 4/5, on the ceasefire resolution and the August cutoff, since the POLITICO interview is days old.
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