Cuban exile-turned-congressman unloads on Dem Senate hopeful over Cuba remarks

Florida's Democratic Senate nominee, state Representative Angie Nixon, is facing criticism from Republican Representative Carlos Gimenez over how she handled a question about Cuba. In a CBS News interview that aired Monday, Nixon, who belongs to the Democratic Socialists of America and is challenging Senator Ashley Moody, was asked whether she regards Cuba as a dictatorship. She replied that she has never visited the island and must rely on what others have told her. CBS first described this as a refusal to answer, then deleted that post. Nixon called the characterization false and a failure of editorial reporting, and CBS later re-posted the footage and apologized for its wording, according to Fox News.

Gimenez, whose family left Cuba when he was a child, told Fox News Digital he still sees her answer as a dodge. He said Cuba's government has jailed, tortured and killed innocent people for decades, and that Floridians need leaders who plainly side with freedom. Florida lawmaker Ian Vallecillo, whose relatives escaped Nicaragua's authoritarian government, backed Gimenez's view in his own statement to the outlet. Communist rule in Cuba dates to 1959.

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