Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon said Wednesday she wants her Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., locked up and punished in jail.
“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. And she rerouted that into two political slush funds for Ron DeSantis to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives,” Nixon told CNN host Kasie Hunt. “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.”
The Democratic Senate candidate then said, “Why would I want to do that when I want her locked up and punished in jail for what she has done?”
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Hunt asked a follow-up question to confirm Nixon’s remarks: “You want your Republican opponent locked up?”
She replied, “Basically, yes. Because of what she did, yes. I absolutely would want that to happen. Yes.”
Nixon did the interview alongside Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who did not weigh in on Nixon’s remarks.
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Murphy’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Hunt then asked whether Nixon had sufficient evidence to justify jailing Moody. Nixon responded that she would call for an investigation into the Republican senator.
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“What we have seen, right, what we have seen is that the DCA [The District Court of Appeals], the first DCA here, has decided to wipe out the release of the grand jury report, and that first DCA judge was actually appointed by Ron DeSantis. And what we are seeing is corruption through and through. And so, I would definitely call for an investigation as a federal lawmaker when I become a U.S. senator to actively go in to see what happened. People are pissed off. We don’t know how many children are potentially going to die because that $10 million did not go to where it was supposed to go to,” she said.
Nixon also described Moody as a “rubber stamp” for President Donald Trump.
“And so, we need to make sure that we are putting people in Washington, D.C., who actually have the back of hardworking everyday Floridians. I will be calling for a full-on investigation as it relates to what Ashley Moody and them have done. Yes, absolutely,” Nixon added.
Moody’s team did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
“Questions should be asked about why socialist extremist Angie Nixon wants to jail her political opponents, but is totally fine with freeing dangerous criminals. Plus, how does she plan to do this if she wants to abolish all prisons?” RNC spokeswoman Emma Hall told Fox News Digital about Nixon’s remarks.
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Nixon, who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), defeated establishment-backed candidate Alexander Vindman in the Democratic primary election earlier this year.
Despite her DSA affiliation, Nixon told NBC News in August that she is not a socialist.
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Nixon said she joined the DSA because the organization supported public housing, healthcare, assistance for homeless veterans and removing big money from politics, but she rejected Moody’s characterization of her political identity.
“Ashley Moody knows that I’m not a socialist,” Nixon said. “I joined the DSA because I believe in them in regards to fighting for adequate public housing, as well as fighting for quality healthcare, as well as making sure that we are getting our veterans off the street, taking big money out of politics, right?”
Moody has not been charged in connection with the Hope Florida settlement controversy and has denied wrongdoing.