Posted on 10/27/2026 5:45:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Florida Democrat Senate candidate Angie Nixon stunned viewers during a recent interview when she was asked a straightforward question about whether Cuba is a dictatorship.
Somehow, she couldn't answer.
Instead of offering a clear response, the challenger to Republican Sen. Ashley Moody responded with all the energy of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. She of "I'm not a biologist" fame.
"Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?" she was asked in an interview with CBS News.
"You know, that is what people have told me," she replied. "I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have to take their word for it."
It seems like you might want to offer some insight on this, given how many people flee that dictatorship and end up in Florida.
Asked whether Cuba is a dictatorship, Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon, who is challenging Republican Sen. Ashley Moody, declined to say. “That is what people have told me. I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have to take their word for it," Nixon told @cbenavidesTV. Nixon also criticized the decades-long U.S. embargo on Cuba and said she supports returning to Obama-era policies.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 26, 2026 Nixon’s comments went further when she criticized the long-standing U.S. embargo and supported a return to the more conciliatory policies of the Obama era.
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"They told me that the blackouts, instead of being 4 to 6 hours long, they're now being 24 and 36 hours — or 48 hours long, because of this embargo," she added.
"I am supportive of us returning back to Obama-era policies, much like the Cuban Americans I have talked to down in South Florida feel."
One, if you were talking to Cuban Americans, there's a decent chance they could explain to you how Cuba is a dictatorship.
Two, many Cuban exiles who directly fled the Castro regime strongly opposed President Obama's policies. They opposed his diplomatic normalization and relaxed economic restrictions on the dictatorship.
Nixon's remarks, paired with her recent membership in the Democratic Socialists of America, handed Republicans ready-made material for attack ads to help boost Moody.
Like many of her Democrat colleagues who can’t seem to define what a woman is, we now have a candidate for the U.S. Senate who can’t define a dictatorship…
— Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida) October 27, 2026 Alienating Cuban American voters in the Sunshine State is certainly a choice. Florida knows the scourge of a communist dictatorship all too well.
The regime in Cuba has inflicted suffering through systematic human rights abuses, including political repression, arbitrary detentions, and suppression of free speech. Not to mention chronic economic stagnation marked by shortages and poverty that have driven mass humanitarian crises and driven those fleeing the oppression to Florida's shores.
Or so some people have told me.
"I can't think of a place in this country that has a more instinctive understanding of the dangers of communism than we have in our South Florida communities," Gov. Ron DeSantis has said.
Nixon, however, has little to no understanding of Cuba, or much else, for that matter. Floridians should vote accordingly.
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Makes sense. I mean, I don’t know for sure that the earth is round, because I haven’t been to the other side. I guess I’ll take their word for it.
Communists can never answer yes or no, they think they are too clever for that.
Angie Nixon, even in moments of relative calm, is a loose cannon taking aim at circling sea birds.
Talk about people shaking their fists at clouds, she cannot stay on message longer than than a gnat can hover at one point, then zip, off to something else.
Who nominated her in the first place?
The Democrat base............
It depends on what the meaning of is is...
She is a certifiable nutcase................
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration.”
Undereducated
I don’t understand how we’re giving her the time of day here. She’ll lose. Will giving her any attention help us in other races? If so then it’s worth it but for me my attention will be on those that are closer.
Could you picture a serious influencer like the late Charlie Kirk having even a 5 minute discussion with a circus geek like her?
Because of the embargo? To my knowledge, just about every country on earth is willing and able to trade with Cuba. The problem is, under their Commie Dictatorship Cuba doesn’t make anything other countries want.
She’s a candidate in a blue tsunami season. It’s possible.
I believe her accent and antics would rival Cynthia McKinney.
OT -— how do flat Earthers explain that if you travel far enough east from California, you will end up back in California?
Blue tsunami? HA
FL has over 1.5 million more registered Republicans than Democrats.
That’s a long climb for Nixon to win statewide.
OT -— how do flat Earthers explain that if you travel far enough east from California, you will end up back in California?
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Of course my post was in jest, the point out how one could use a philosophical ‘truth’ argument to deflect from actually having to acknowledge something obvious and otherwise widely accepted and suggest it’s deniable based on ignorance....
...and you did say that your question is of topic ...But.... I will counter your question with another question: How do you know what “east” is?
Think about it for a quick minute.
Not that I know of
Where did I hear that before Moe?.
I have no recollection of that.................😒
If you asked her if Hitler was a bad person, would she reply, “That’s what people have told me, but I never met him”?
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