In Lakeland visit, JD Vance says Angie Nixon ‘doesn’t belong in America’
LAKELAND — Vice President JD Vance said in Florida Thursday that it was almost “too easy” to attack the candidacies of the two top Democrats running on the statewide ballot next month, David Jolly for governor and Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate.
Yet the political reality is that he was in deep-red Polk County having to campaign for Byron Donalds and Ashley Moody. Florida, he said, is “MAGA country” with 1.5 million more registered Republicans than Democrats.
That he felt the need to come here, Democrats say, illustrates how the deepening frustration with Donald Trump’s presidency could imperil the GOP’s electoral efforts this fall as the midterm elections approach, even in conservative Florida.
Speaking during a rally in an airplane hangar at Lakeland Linder International Airport, Vance began the section of his speech targeting Nixon by noting the unpopularity of socialism with South Florida Hispanic voters in recent electio…