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Republican Ashley Moody defeats progressive Angie Nixon in Florida Senate race

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Miami, R. L. i. (2026, November 4). Republican Ashley Moody defeats progressive Angie Nixon in Florida Senate race. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/ashley-moody-wins-florida-senate-race

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The Guardian · collected 2026-11-04 · by Richard Luscombe in Miami

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Republican Ashley Moody won Florida’s special Senate election against Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist candidate. Moody was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis and will now serve the remainder of Marco Rubio’s term until 2028. Polling before the election showed Moody had a slight lead, which Nixon attempted to narrow with support from prominent Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The race highlighted whether Florida would remain reliably Republican or if Democrats were gaining ground in the state.
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On November 7, 2026, Ashley Moody defeated Angie Nixon in Florida’s special Senate election, securing her seat for another two years until the 2028 election. Despite Nixon, a progressive and the first African American Democrat to run for Senate in Florida since 2012, receiving significant support from figures like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she fell short with 48.2% of the vote compared to Moody’s 50.7%. Moody, who was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis in January 2025 after Marco Rubio became Secretary of State, benefited from a substantial fundraising advantage, raising over $20 million versus Nixon's approximately $8.5 million. The race highlighted the ongoing Republican dominance in Florida, despite Democrats hoping to make gains in traditionally competitive states like Florida.

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📰 Ashley Moody Wins Florida Senate Race
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“While both articles cover similar election results, Article B discusses multiple races including Florida's gubernatorial race, whereas Article A focuses solely on Ashley Moody's victory in the Senate race.”
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Richard Luscombe in Miami
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🔮 Republican Byron Donalds will be the next governor of Florida, and its first Black leader, after defeating Democrat David Jolly in one of the country’s most-watched midterm races.
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🔮 Moody will serve the remainder of his term until the 2028 election.
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🔮 If he wins the November election, as he is expected to do in the conservative stronghold, Donalds would become the first Black governor in any southern US state.
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🔮 “There is a lot of curiosity about me from more traditional, pre-Trump-era Republicans that feel homeless,” Vindman said in March as he weighed the broad coalition of voters he will need to topple Moody, appointed by Republican DeSantis in January 2025 to replace Marco Rubio after his elevation to secretary of state.
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Democratic Democrats Florida Republican the US Senate

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Florida GPE · 6× Moody PERSON · 5× Nixon PERSON · 4× Ashley Moody PERSON · 2× Democrats NORP · 2× Republican NORP · 2× Trump PERSON · 2× Angie Nixon PERSON · 1× Ron DeSantis PERSON · 1× the US Senate ORG · 1×

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Nixon campaigned vigorously on affordability and corruption in politics, frequently referring to Moody’s role as Florida’s attorney general in the so-called Hope Florida scandal, in which DeSantis’s administration diverted a $10m Medicaid payout to political committees. “I don’t want to abolish prisons, because I want Ashley Moody in one of them,” she said in an interview that provided one of her campaign’s most viral moments.
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🔮 Moody will serve the remainder of his term until the 2028 election.
2026-11-04 · The Guardian
Republican Ashley Moody defeats progressive Angie Nixon in Florida Senate race · assertive framing

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Ashley Moody fended off a challenge from Angie Nixon, a democratic socialist, to win Florida’s special election and retain her seat in the US Senate. asserted
Moody → fend → Senate
It was the first election win for the Republican, who was appointed by Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis in January 2025, when Marco Rubio became US secretary of state. asserted
Rubio → appoint → state
Moody will serve the remainder of his term until the 2028 election. asserted
Moody → serve → election
Polling in the run-up to Tuesday gave Moody a clear but narrow advantage, which Nixon sought to close and overcome with the support of prominent progressive Democrats. asserted
Nixon → give → Democrats
Both Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rallied last month with Nixon in central Florida, an immigrant-heavy section of the state where the Trump administration’s harsh detention and deportation policies have proved unpopular. asserted
policies → rally → state
The contest was also a gauge of whether Florida remained reliably Republican, after the party built a 1.5 million-voter advantage in registrations, or if Democrats – shut out in statewide races for a decade – had made progress towards restoring Florida’s lost status as a key battleground. asserted
Democrats → remain → battleground
Moody, during campaign appearances, focused on denouncing Nixon as a “socialist”, and portrayed her alignment with the Democratic Socialists of America as evidence she was intent on defunding the police and the US military, abolishing prisons and supporting unchecked immigration and noncitizen voting. asserted
she → focus → immigration
Moody lauded Trump’s immigration policies but, mindful of the president’s strong disapproval ratings over the Iran war and high gas prices, largely refrained from praising him personally. asserted
Moody → laud → him
Nixon campaigned vigorously on affordability and corruption in politics, frequently referring to Moody’s role as Florida’s attorney general in the so-called Hope Florida scandal, in which DeSantis’s administration diverted a $10m Medicaid payout to political committees. “I don’t want to abolish prisons, because I want Ashley Moody in one of them,” she said in an interview that provided one of her campaign’s most viral moments. asserted
that → campaign → moments
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