Bernie Sanders Campaigns for Angie Nixon in Florida With 17 Days Left
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 17
Bernie Sanders Campaigns for Angie Nixon in Florida With 17 Days Left
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 17
Summary
Seventeen days before the midterms, Bernie Sanders rallied with Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon in Tampa, making a rare late-campaign trip to increasingly Republican Florida.
Tampa’s rain-soaked event let Sanders argue that progressive themes — curbing money in politics and boosting working people — are finding receptive voters even in red states.
Angie Nixon’s candidacy is central to that pitch: Sanders told supporters that doubters were wrong about her primary chances and wrong again to dismiss her general-election prospects.
Florida provides difficult terrain for Sanders, whose 2016 and 2020 presidential runs struggled there as the state shifted further right, especially among Cuban Americans and other Hispanic voters.
His two-day swing notably avoids South Florida, the center of the Cuban exile community that sharply criticized his past praise for parts of Cuba’s Communist government.