Angie Nixon, the Democratic Socialists of America's U.S. Senate candidate in Florida, employed a social media manager whose online posts praised Hamas and called for the death of "Zionists" and "white Jews."
Sara Mahmoud served as the paid social media manager for Nixon's Florida Senate campaign as recently as June, collecting $8,400 between June and July according to Federal Election Commission filings. Fox Digital first reported that Mahmoud's social media history included a string of posts celebrating Hamas, wishing death on Jewish people, and equating Zionism with white nationalism. Mahmoud is no longer with Nixon's campaign, though the circumstances and timing of her departure remain unclear.
The posts span years. In 2018, on the same day Hamas fired as many as 400 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, Mahmoud wrote: "Glory and honor to our freedom fighters. Praying for their safety and success." That same year, she posted a message using the hashtags #Hamas31 and #WhatsHamas, declaring: "Palestine is the land of the Arab Palestinian people, from it they originate, to it they adhere and belong, and about it they reach out and communicate."
Two years earlier, in 2016, Mahmoud posted: "Wow, white Jews are so entitled lmfaoooo please die." A separate now-deleted post read simply: "Can Zionists die already?"
In yet another undated post, Mahmoud wrote that "Zionism is a form of white nationalism, period," adding that she was "really sick of seeing folks contesting this fact."
Mahmoud's posts are not the only element of Nixon's campaign drawing scrutiny. Nixon herself has publicly described the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Florida chapter as a political vehicle for electoral success. Gov. Ron DeSantis designated both CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations under a Florida executive order, directing state agencies "to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support."
Nixon, speaking about CAIR Florida, said:
"We need to start working on building the right vehicles. And the right vehicles are CAIR Florida. We can't just build party. We have to build up our people in order to build up our country. And so, right now is a time where we need to breathe, but we do need to take some time and make space. And then come together and start having uncomfortable conversations."
Describing an organization that the state's governor has formally designated as tied to terrorism as "the right vehicle" to build political power is a choice that tells voters exactly where Nixon's priorities sit. It is not a gaffe. It is a strategy.
Nixon is not the only socialist candidate raising serious questions about judgment and allegiance this cycle. But the combination of her CAIR remarks and her campaign's direct financial relationship with a staffer who celebrated Hamas rocket attacks stands out even in a crowded field of far-left missteps.
FEC filings cited by Fox Digital show that Mahmoud received $8,400 from Nixon's campaign during the June-to-July period. That is not a volunteer arrangement or casual social media help. It is a paid, documented staff position, one that required someone inside the campaign to review Mahmoud's work and approve her compensation.
Whether Nixon or her campaign leadership knew about Mahmoud's social media history before Fox Digital surfaced it remains an open question. Neither Nixon nor Mahmoud has publicly responded to the reporting. But the posts were not hidden in obscure corners of the internet. Mahmoud's "freedom fighters" post went up the same day Hamas launched hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians. Her 2016 post wishing death on "white Jews" was written in plain English on a public platform.
Campaigns vet their hires. That is a basic operational expectation. A Senate campaign that either missed this record or did not consider it disqualifying has a vetting problem, or a values problem. Democratic candidates who associate with far-left platforms and figures keep finding themselves forced to explain away the company they keep.
Nixon's association with Mahmoud does not exist in a vacuum. She is a dues-paying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. She has embraced abolishing ICE, funding universal health care, and implementing universal childcare and pre-kindergarten. She frequently quotes Assata Shakur, a convicted cop killer who fled to Cuba, while campaigning, including at a church appearance.
At the same time, Nixon has tried to distance herself from the socialist label. She categorized President Donald Trump as "basically a communist", a claim that does not track with any recognizable definition of the term and reads more like rhetorical misdirection than serious political analysis.
Voters in Florida have watched well-funded left-wing campaigns collapse in the state before. Nixon's candidacy now carries the added weight of a staffing decision that links her campaign's payroll directly to someone who praised a terrorist organization on a day it attacked civilians.
The Democratic Party's ongoing tolerance for candidates who align themselves with DSA, celebrate organizations designated as terrorist-linked, and employ staffers with records of open antisemitism is not a fringe problem anymore. It is a pattern. And Democratic officeholders keep getting caught in exactly these kinds of contradictions, between the image they project and the associations they maintain.
Nixon's campaign has not explained how Mahmoud got the job, when leadership learned about the posts, or why the staffer was kept on payroll as recently as June. Until those questions get answers, Florida voters can draw their own conclusions about what kind of Senate office Angie Nixon would run.
You can tell a lot about a candidate by the people she pays. Nixon paid someone who cheered Hamas rockets and wished Jewish people dead, and the only thing that ended the arrangement, so far as anyone can tell, was a reporter asking questions.
