# Republican Ashley Moody defeats progressive Angie Nixon in Florida Senate race

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/republican-ashley-moody-defeats-progressive-angie-nixon-in-florida-senate-race/
- Published: 2026-11-04T01:41:54+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T14:40:03+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/03/ashley-moody-wins-florida-senate-race
- Topics: Americas, Elections, Government, Politics, Software, Technology, World

## Key points

- Ashley Moody won Florida’s special Senate election.
- She will serve until the 2028 election.
- The result tested Florida’s Republican strength.

## Summary

Republican Ashley Moody defeated Democratic socialist Angie Nixon in Florida’s special US Senate election, retaining a seat she had held since being appointed in January 2025. The race mattered as a test of whether Florida remains reliably Republican after Democrats’ decade without statewide wins.

Moody will serve the rest of Marco Rubio’s term, until the 2028 election. Pre-election polling gave her a narrow lead; Nixon received campaign support from Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and focused on affordability and alleged political corruption, including a $10m Medicaid payment diverted to political committees. Moody attacked Nixon as a socialist and backed Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

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