Angie Nixon’s ignorance on Cuba shows she isn’t ready for the Senate 

Mike Waltz needs to school Angie Nixon about Cuba.  

Nixon, a Democrat aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America who is running to become a U.S. senator from Florida, recently showed extreme and perhaps willful ignorance about the communist country perched just 90 miles off her state’s coast. 

When CBS News reporter Cristian Benavides asked Nixon if she considers Cuba a dictatorship, she responded, “That is what people have told me. I have never been to Cuba, and so I will have to take their word for it.”

Coming from someone running for statewide office in Florida, home to more than a million Cuban exiles and their families, Nixon’s tone-deaf response was rebuked not only by Republicans but also by other Democratic candidates in the Sunshine State.  

Does she not actually know the miserable history of Cuba’s repressive and brutal communist regime? Nixon certainly could have benefitted from being in the room recently when Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, stunned the General Assembly by documenting the corruption and hardship delivered to the people of Cuba over the last 67 years. 

Waltz addressed the Turtle Bay diplomats on the eve of their annual vote condemning the U.S. sanctions imposed on our southern neighbor, trying to interrupt a 34-year run of anti-American posturing. As he showed photos of Fidel Castro wearing not one but two Rolex watches at a time when Cubans could not afford basic necessities, Waltz declared, “According to the regime’s own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage.” Waltz also shared a photo of Cuba’s current ruler, Miguel Díaz-Canel. “It didn’t just start with Castro,” he said. “This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on.”

Waltz also displayed pictures of the Castro family’s........

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