Angie Nixon Fires Back at Laura Loomer's Racist Attack: 'After November 3rd, You Can Call Me Senator'
Key Takeaways
- •Florida State Representative Angie Nixon, the Democratic Senate nominee, responded Sunday to racist insults directed at her by far-right influencer Laura Loomer.
- •Loomer escalated her attack by referencing Ebonics after Nixon pointed out that Loomer once ate dog food on camera to promote 'anti-woke' products.
- •Nixon turned the exchange into a fundraising and turnout opportunity ahead of the November 3 general election, telling supporters to donate so they can call her senator.
- •Nixon won her Democratic primary in a surprise upset despite being outraised by more than 16-to-1, part of a wave of progressive primary victories that have drawn attacks from conservative media figures.
- •Loomer has previously described herself as a 'white advocate' at an American Renaissance conference, an event the Southern Poverty Law Center associates with white supremacists.
Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon hit back Sunday after far-right influencer and White House insider Laura Loomer called her a "ghetto b----," a racist attack that also included a jab at her manner of speaking as a Black woman.
Nixon, a Florida state representative from Jacksonville, is running in one of the most closely watched Senate races of the cycle, and the exchange underscores how national figures on the far right have inserted themselves into state-level contests this election year.
"These women are all ghetto, entitled, race-obsessed, destructive black B------ who are completely unfit for the power they hold," Loomer wrote Friday in a post on X, referring to Nixon, two Black female lawmakers, and one former lawmaker.
That same day, Nixon responded by pointing to an odd moment in Loomer's career, when she ate dog food on camera to promote a company that sells "anti-woke" products.
"Girl. You ate dog food on camera," Nixon wrote. "In the words of Queen Latifah, 'Who you calling a b----?'"
Loomer doubled down on her attack Friday night, raising the topic of Ebonics, which the Conference on College Composition & Communication defines as the "superordinate term for a category of Black language forms that derive from common historical, social, cultural, and material conditions."
"I called you a ghetto b----, because you are, Angie, and your record proves it," Loomer wrote. "But, you speak Ebonics though, so maybe I need to bark at you and tug your leash and then you'll finally understand."
On Sunday morning, Nixon answered Loomer's latest attack with a dismissive set of instructions for the far-right influencer, along with a plug for her Senate campaign website, turning the slur into a fundraising and turnout moment ahead of the November 3 general election.
"When referring to me, it's Representative Angie Nixon. However after November 3rd, YOU CAN CALL ME SENATOR!" Nixon wrote. "Folks. Donate if you want to see this happen."
Nixon won her Democratic primary in a surprise upset, defeating her opponent despite being outraised by more than 16-to-1. Her victory is the latest in a wave of wins for progressive candidates in Democratic primaries, a trend that has drawn increased attention—and attacks—from conservative media figures.
Loomer once described herself as a "white advocate" at an American Renaissance conference, a venue the Southern Poverty Law Center reportedly describes as a place where "racist 'intellectuals' rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists."
