Democrat Angie Nixon, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member running for Florida Sen. Ashley Moody’s (R) seat, is denying that she wants to abolish prisons, using her desire for her opponent to be “locked up and punished” as proof of this position.
“The fact remains that Ashley Moody is a lying, cheating, thieving, scamming person who basically took $10 million from sick kids for the Medicaid program,” Nixon said, referring to the Hope Florida Foundation controversy during an appearance on CNN with host Kasie Hunt.
“And she rerouted that into two political slush funds for Ron DeSantis to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives,” Nixon continued. “She also voted to end healthcare for over 440,000 people here in the state of Florida. And they are spreading, like, a lot of disinformation and lies on commercials about me, of saying things like, I want to abolish prisons and I want to defund the police.”
She added, “Why would I want to do that when I want her locked up and punished in jail for what she has done?”
When pressed by Hunt, who asked, “You want your Republican opponent locked up?” Nixon affirmed her answer.
“Basically, yes. Because of what she did, yes. I absolutely would want that to happen. Yes,” Nixon concluded.
