In upset, democratic socialist Nixon defeats Vindman in Florida Democratic Senate primary

JUST IN: Democratic socialist Angie Nixon upsets Alex Vindman in Florida's Democratic Senate primary, a shock result. She'll face Republican Senator Ashley Moody in November.

Angie Nixon just knocked out Alex Vindman in Florida's Democratic Senate primary. A democratic socialist state legislator beating the man who testified in Trump's first impeachment, and nobody saw it coming. Her supporters certainly did though, look at the scenes from her election night party.

Vindman had the national name, the book, the cable news résumé. Nixon had four years in Tallahassee and apparently a better read on what Florida Democrats actually wanted. That's the whole upset in one line.

Now she faces Republican Senator Ashley Moody in November, fighting for the two years left on Marco Rubio's old seat, the one he gave up to become Trump's secretary of state. And remember the backdrop here, Florida just redrew its maps to hand Republicans up to four more House seats, in a state Trump won by thirteen points.

A democratic socialist, statewide, in that Florida. That's the steepest hill in American politics right now, and she just signed up to climb it.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.

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