In Lakeland visit, JD Vance says Angie Nixon ‘doesn’t belong in America’

By: Mitch Perry

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: October 1, 2026

Words: 1,597

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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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 …

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