‘They call us extreme, they call us radical,’ the progressive Senate candidate said. ‘But I think people see through that’

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

In conservative Florida, Alex Vindman – a retired army intelligence officer who blew this whistle on Donald Trump in his first term – appeared set to carry the Democratic establishment banner as the party staged a long-shot bid to topple a Republican US senator.

Florida’s Democratic voters had other ideas.

Democratic socialist Angie Nixon emerged a surprise victor in the US Senate primary on Tuesday, after a campaign in which she was outfunded and outspent by Vindman at a ratio of more than 10 to one.

  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    You seem really intent on losing the elections this year.

    But yes, maybe we’ll get a perfect line up in 2028, or 2030…

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      6 days ago

      Jesus, so many Democrats treat elections like a fucking trophy room. We aren’t trying to fucking win here, we’re trying to actually fucking change things and not become a fascist country. Good luck doing that with corporate sponsored assholes who have done and continue to do next to nothing for the people unless they get a permission slip from the moneyed interest.