‘I Know That for a Fact’: Democratic Candidate Claims Trump Is ‘Laying Out His Plan’ to ‘Not Leave in 2028’

Screenshot via Scott MacFarlane on X

Florida Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon claims she knows “for a fact” that President Donald Trump will try to “not leave in 2028,” arguing he is already laying the groundwork to remain in power past the end of his presidential term.

Nixon made the warning in a preview clip from an upcoming interview with MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane, which the journalist posted Friday.

“This guy is laying out his plan,” Nixon stressed. “He’s laying the foundation and the groundwork to not leave in 2028. He’s weaponized an agency — ICE — and created a paramilitary force designed to terrorize people in their communities to see how far he can go. He’s pushing the limit, the envelope. They’re not being held accountable for murdering people, for slaughtering people on the streets while they’re on camera, and so he’s just pushing it, and then he’s building his ballroom that we know is getting fortified, all these things — ”

“Are you making the argument, Ms. Nixon, that you don’t think he’s gonna leave on Jan. 20, 2029?” MacFarlane interjected.

“He didn’t wanna leave in 2021!” Nixon exclaimed. “We saw what happened, and so I honestly am concerned about what he’s going to do, and I know that he made the case a few months ago that the election was stolen from him in 2020, like he’s putting things in place to make it so that he won’t leave. He won’t leave willingly. I know that for a fact, and so people need to be on high alert as it relates to that. He’s sending out the National Guard to different cities, and so, again, he’s testing how far he can go.”

She concluded, “I have had conversations with immigrants who have come from dictatorships and authoritarian governments, and they said that what is happening right now is what they have seen when these fascist and authoritarian regimes came in and took over their home countries.”

While Nixon joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June, she has made clear that she does not agree with its entire platform. While she shares some of the group’s positions — including abolishing ICE and creating pathways to citizenship — she has publicly broken with the DSA on several issues.

Nixon has said she does not support defunding the police or abolishing all prisons, has not advocated defunding the military, supports securing the border, and has not endorsed allowing noncitizens to vote.

“I don’t fully align with anybody’s full platform 100%, not even the Democratic Party,” Nixon told WLRN last month.

The organization has not endorsed her campaign.

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