JUST IN: Notorious Trump Impeachment Witness Gets Crushed By Socialist In Senate Primary

Far-left Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon humiliated Democratic establishment pick Alex Vindman in Tuesday’s Senate primary, overcoming a staggering fundraising gap to land a November showdown with Republican Sen. Ashley Moody.

Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated the Trump impeachment witness despite raising less than $1 million to Vindman’s mammoth haul of more than $16 million.

The upset was an embarrassing rejection of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which recruited Vindman in hopes of expanding the party’s Senate map during what is expected to be a favorable midterm cycle.

Instead, Florida Democratic voters handed the nomination to a socialist who supports Medicare for All, universal child care and cutting US aid to Israel.

Nixon celebrated the stunning win by declaring that her campaign had overcome Washington power brokers and their mountains of cash.

“We showed the world what organized people can accomplish,” Nixon told supporters Tuesday night. “And we showed the world what people of Florida are all about. Medicare for all. Universal child care. Real, affordable housing. Fully funded public education. And an end to senseless wars.”

The Jacksonville lawmaker had repeatedly hammered Vindman for only recently moving to Florida, casting his candidacy as an establishment project fueled by wealthy donors.

“Florida: the choice is OURS,” Nixon posted on social media in her closing message. “We will decide our future, not billionaire donors or the establishment politics of DC.”

Vindman largely acted as if Nixon were not a threat. He ignored her through much of the primary, never faced her in a debate and tried to make the race about Moody.

That strategy ended in a spectacular collapse Tuesday.

Vindman conceded in a statement and acknowledged that Nixon “ran a strong campaign.”

“I will be standing by her side in the fight against Ashley Moody,” he continued. “I hope you’ll join me.”

Nixon courted his supporters during her victory speech, telling them “there is a place for you” in her campaign.

“The great thing about our movement is we are not trying to force everyone to agree with us and believe exactly the same thing,” she said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and DSCC Chair Kristen Gillibrand quickly fell in line behind Nixon after their preferred candidate’s defeat.

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“Angie Nixon has dedicated her career to fighting for Florida. A lifelong native of Jacksonville and a former union organizer, Angie’s dedication to put working families first runs deep — and now, she’s running to take that fight to the Senate,” Schumer, D-N.Y., and Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said in a joint statement. “Ashley Moody’s votes have cost Florida, from her siding with private insurance companies over Floridians to ripping away health care. In November, Florida will have a clear choice at the ballot.”

Remember when @DevinNunes asked Lt. Col. Vindman who he spoke to about the Trump/Zelensky call but Schiff wouldn’t let him answer it because it would reveal the identity of the Whistleblower?

Vindman claimed he didn’t know the identity of the Whistleblower Under Oath. pic.twitter.com/FnOPhJc1iM

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) February 8, 2020

Moody easily dispatched several Republican primary challengers Tuesday before turning her attention to Nixon and the Democrats’ socialist agenda.

In her victory speech, Moody accused Nixon of wanting to “destroy this country and everything that it is built on.”

“We are staring down crazy and the socialists today,” Moody said.

The National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee delivered its own blunt assessment of Nixon’s chances.

“Florida will never elect a socialist to the US Senate and we look forward to Ashley Moody’s victory in November,” spokesman Nick Puglia said.

Nixon’s positions on Israel could become a major liability in a state with the country’s third-largest Jewish population.

She advocates cutting US aid to Israel and has clashed with members of her own party over the issue. Her position stood in contrast to that of Vindman, a Jewish immigrant born in Soviet Ukraine.

Nixon introduced a resolution in the Florida House calling for a “de-escalation and ceasefire in the state of Israel and occupied Palestine.” She also said she would have supported a July congressional resolution stripping $3.3 billion in military aid from Israel.

“I would have voted in support of that, because we cannot continue to send money to countries that are violating international law, that are violating human rights, that are actively destroying,” she said Friday on WMNF radio in Tampa. “Throughout my adult career, I have fought for the safety and the well-being and the humanity of all people. And me stating this does not make me antisemitic at all.”

Vindman, a retired lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran, became a darling of Trump critics after testifying before Congress about a 2019 call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump had been pushing for an investigation into Joe Biden, who was then seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.

Vindman’s testimony helped launch Trump’s first impeachment in the House. The Republican-controlled Senate acquitted Trump, and Vindman was later fired from the National Security Council.

Moody and Nixon are competing to serve the final two years of the Senate term Marco Rubio won in 2022. Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Moody to the seat last year after Trump selected Rubio to serve as secretary of state.

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