Florida Senate nominee Angie Nixon says 'I don't know' when asked if she's capitalist or socialist

Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon struggled to identify whether she was a capitalist or socialist during an interview Friday, drawing sharp criticism from Republican Sen. 's campaign as the candidates entered the final week of Florida's Senate race.

Politico's Dasha Burns confronted the nominee over her membership in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), noting that she had previously identified herself as a capitalist despite joining the socialist organization. When Burns pressed Nixon to explain how she personally identified, the Jacksonville Democrat repeatedly expressed uncertainty.

"I don't know. I don't know. Like, I don't know," Nixon said on "The Conversation."

"I identify as Angie Nixon, as a Black woman who was a former single mom, who wants to make sure that no one has to struggle the way I struggled when I was a single mom." 

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Cameron Gambini, a spokesperson for Moody, criticized Nixon's response in a statement to , questioning her ideological commitments and referencing a separate controversy surrounding her recent comments about Cuba.

"Angie Nixon voluntarily signed up to be a member of the Democrat Socialists," he said. "Now, she's clearly regretting letting her true colors shine. And just yesterday, she was a dictatorship. Socialist Angie is a radical lunatic who will never step foot on the Senate floor. Case closed."

When asked directly during an interview Monday with CBS News whether Nixon considered Cuba a dictatorship, she said, "You know, that is what people have told me. I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have to take their word for it."

Nixon subsequently challenged CBS News' characterization of her answer, maintaining that she believed Cubans who described their government as a dictatorship. CBS deleted its initial social media post and acknowledged that its description had inaccurately represented her response.

"Its disappointing to have to say this, but [CBS News], this is a serious failure of editorial reporting," Nixon said in a post on X. "I clearly state in this clip that while I have not personally been to Cuba, I have spoken with Cubans who have described it as a dictatorship, and I believe them. To claim I declined to answer the question is categorically false.

"That is not journalism. It is misinformation."

spokesman Andrew Kolvet criticized the Democratic nominee's response to Politico about whether she was a socialist in a statement to Fox News Digital, suggesting she was attempting to distance herself from socialism because of its political implications in Florida.

"Some pollster or political consultant probably told her socialism doesnt sell in Florida," he said. "So, shes offering the flimsiest and most insincere of explanations for how radical and economically illiterate she really and truly is. She seems to contend that existing within the land border of America makes you a capitalist.

"But just like existing in America doesnt make someone an American, running for Senate doesnt suddenly make Angie Nixon a good liar."

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Initially, in the same exchange on "The Conversation," Burns asked Nixon whether she considered herself a capitalist or socialist, prompti