Apparently, there is an expiration date on the red-meat racism of Trumpism. El-Sayed defeated his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, by seven points. Elsewhere, Republicans attempted to link Black candidates to chaos and crime, but these tried-and-true tactics appear to have had little effect. Angie Nixon, a Florida state representative and union organizer, ran an upstart campaign for the U.S. Senate, and was subject to witheringly racist attacks from the President and his supporters.