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Nixon Hits Hard as GOP Rival Linked to $10M Florida Scandal—What Polls Show

Democratic Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon called for Republican rival Ashley Moody's resignation.

Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon has criticized Republican Senator Ashley Moody following a grand jury report implicating Moody in a plan to divert $10 million from a Medicaid settlement to the Hope Florida Foundation, a nonprofit connected to Florida first lady Casey DeSantis. The grand jury report, which concluded that the funds were "misappropriated," found insufficient evidence to charge anyone criminally, leaving Moody to face the election in November to fill the remaining term of the current senator.

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