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Inside Angie Nixon’s bid for the US Senate in Florida

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When Angie Nixon took to the Florida House floor this spring to raise a ruckus about Republicans’ newly redrawn congressional districts, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate channeled the lessons of mentors in the organized labor and civil rights movements. Clad in a signature pink jumpsuit and armed with a matching bullhorn, Nixon loudly disrupted a hearing to pass a new map expected to help the GOP expand its dominance in the state by unravelling Florida’s historically Black congressional seats. Days later, she walked over to the governor’s office, sat in front of the receptionist’s desk and announced she wouldn’t leave until Gov. Ron DeSantis gave her an audience. She did end up leaving without a meeting — in handcuffs . But the protests framed her upstart candidacy to become Florida’s first Black U.S. senator, a campaign steeped in the tactics and mantras of past movements that overcame daunting power dynamics and steep political disadvantages. “We are literally witnessing people i

First report: Florida Senate nominee Angie Nixon resolves DeSantis office arrest without guilty plea — thegrio.com, 2d