Watch: Democratic socialist speaks to BBC after shock win in Florida primary

Angie Nixon, a Democratic socialist, won the Democratic primary in Florida’s Senate race. She becomes part of a trend in the primaries, which has seen various insurgents on the party’s left-wing defeat centrist candidates.

But polls indicate Nixon currently faces a tough campaign against incumbent Republican Senator Ashley Moody in November’s midterm elections – in a state that has shifted more conservative over the last decade.