Angie Nixon fires back at Laura Loomer over drag queen outrage: ‘Jiggy Jig Saw’

Angie Nixon, the Democratic candidate in Florida’s U.S. Senate Race, won’t apologize for sharing the dance floor with drag queens at a recent fundraiser.

Videos of a recent Nixon campaign event focused on Florida’s LGBTQ+ community began to circulate on far-right social media pages last week. On Monday, Nixon shot back at her critics, who portrayed appearing beside drag queens and other visibly queer constituents as a grave offense.

“If you hate LGBTQIA+ people, just say so,” Nixon wrote in a Monday post on the social media platform X.

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The October 7 campaign event gained attention online after Laura Loomer, a far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist, posted a video of the event on X two days later. Loomer alleged the video showed Nixon “twerking with drag queens and transgenders,” and used anti-Black terms and an anti-trans slur in the post.

“Twerking with drag queens is not only ghetto, but it’s also beneath anyone running to be a U.S. senator,” Loomer wrote.

Loomer, already a controversial figure online, came under fire recently for making racist comments about Nixon and other Black politicians, referring to them with anti-Black terms and sexist expletives. Black political leaders and many on the left widely condemned her comments.

The video that Loomer shared shows Florida drag queen Darcel Stevens twerking during the event. Moments later, it shows Stevens sidestepping with Nixon on the dance floor.

Nixon has given little oxygen to Loomer’s online hate, and her latest social media comeback proved no different. She dismissed Loomer’s unfounded accusation and shot back with a nickname of her own.

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“First of all, Jiggy Jig Saw,” Nixon wrote, referring to the masked antagonist of the Saw horror franchise, “I can’t even twerk. So of course I was only doing the electric slide. It’s rather embarrassing that I lack those skills being a Black Woman.”

Nixon’s national political profile has grown rapidly since she defeated Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman by double digits in August’s Democratic primary election, despite having significantly less funding. Nixon is also a Democratic Socialist, part of a leftist Democratic Party faction that has gained attention and key victories since fellow Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election last year.

Last week’s LGBTQ+ fundraiser was held at Renaissance Theater and featured pop music mixed by DJ Calvin House, a dance performance by Coco the Siren, and several guest speakers, according to Caribbean American Passport News Magazine, a publication focused on Florida’s Caribbean communities.

In her campaign, Nixon has pledged to support members of Florida’s LGBTQ+ community and has earned support from LGBTQ+ organizations in the state.

“No one should be targeted for who they are or who they love,” Nixon wrote in a July 15 Instagram post regarding an endorsement from Safeguarding American Values for Everyone, a Florida LGBTQ+ advocacy group. “In the U.S. Senate, I’ll continue fighting to protect equality, defend our freedoms, and ensure every Floridian is treated with dignity.”