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Republicans Slam Nixon Over Cuba Comments in CBS Interview

By Drooid · Oct 28, 2026, 15:09 UTC · How we work

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Candidate Angie Nixon told CBS she has never visited Cuba and relies on others’ accounts about its regime.
Florida Republicans denounced Nixon’s answer, saying her Democratic Socialists of America affiliation shows she ignores Cuba’s authoritarianism.
Florida Chairman Evan Power said Nixon’s refusal to call Cuba a dictatorship insults Cuban Americans.
NBC6/Telemundo poll found 87% of Democrats support Nixon and 91% of Republicans back incumbent Sen. Ashley Moody.

History

In April 1961 the CIA-run Bay of Pigs invasion sent about 1,400 Cuban exiles against Fidel Castro’s government, and roughly 1,200 were captured. The defeat hardened anti-communist sentiment among Florida’s Cuban-American community, a legacy that today fuels GOP leaders such as Evan Power to demand strict anti-Cuba positions when figures like Angie Nixon speak.

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In April 1961 the CIA-run Bay of Pigs invasion sent about 1,400 Cuban exiles against Fidel Castro’s government, and roughly 1,200 were captured. The defeat hardened anti-communist sentiment among Florida’s Cuban-American community, a legacy that today fuels GOP leaders such as Evan Power to demand strict anti-Cuba positions when figures like Angie Nixon speak.

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