# Cuban exile-turned-congressman unloads on Dem Senate hopeful over Cuba remarks

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/cuban-exile-turned-congressman-unloads-on-dem-senate-hopeful-over-cuba-remarks/
- Published: 2026-10-27T17:07:10+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T19:05:57+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Far right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuban-exile-turned-congressman-unloads-dem-senate-hopeful-over-cuba-remarks
- Topics: Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Carlos Gimenez criticised Angie Nixon’s remarks about Cuba.
- CBS apologised for initially describing Nixon as refusing to answer.
- Nixon opposes the US embargo and supports renewed engagement with Cuba.

## Summary

Florida Republican congressman Carlos Gimenez criticised Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon over her response when asked whether Cuba is a dictatorship. The dispute has drawn attention to Nixon’s views on Cuba and to how CBS News initially presented her answer.

In a televised interview, Nixon said she had never visited Cuba and would take others’ word that it is a dictatorship; she later objected to CBS describing her as refusing to answer, and the network apologised for its wording. Gimenez said Cuba is a communist dictatorship and accused Nixon of failing to condemn it unequivocally. Nixon has criticised the US embargo and backed a return to policies from Barack Obama’s diplomatic thaw, which restored relations in 2014 and eased some restrictions; Cuba has been under communist rule since 1959.

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