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.Related: Laura Loomer went on a racist tirade against Black Democrats so vile it set off Marjorie Taylor Greene 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.Related: Who is Laura Loomer, the MAGA Republican influencing Donald Trump, considered too racist even for Marjorie Taylor“First of all, Jiggy Jig Saw,” Nixon wrote, referring to the masked antagonist of the Saw horror franchise, “I can