SUNRISE, Fla. — Decorated U.S. Army veteran Alex Vindman is launching a different kind of career in service, hoping to unseat Sen. Ashley Moody in November.
He spoke in front of various Broward County Democratic clubs at his first campaign event Monday night in Sunrise, saying he’s for the people of Florida while Moody serves the president and his agenda.
“We are going to end the chaos, we are going to crush corruption, and we are going to cut costs,” he said.
Moody is Florida’s former Attorney General and was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill Mario Rubio’s seat after he became the U.S. Secretary of State.
“Ashely Moody is appointed to be an automatic yes for their entire agenda,” Vindman said. “We need somebody that’s going to be fighting for Floridians.”
If Vindman’s name sounds familiar, that’s because in 2019 he appeared before Congress during President Trump’s first impeachment trial, testifying that the president had pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate then-Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
“It doesn’t make a difference who the person is, there is right and there is wrong and I called it the way I saw it,” said Vindman. “I thought the president was abusing his power and involved in a corrupt scheme to steal the election.”
Following that testimony, the president fired Vindman from the National Security Council. His military career would also come to an end.
Vindman said our country is in chaos with corruption in Washington D.C. He’s criticized the ICE raids, the president’s tariffs, and says healthcare premiums are through the roof, but he’s ready to take on the fight.
“I’m going to do what I’ve always done which is fight for what I think is right and make sure that the powerful, that there’s accountability,” he said. “That we fix some broken things, a system that’s increasingly frankly fixed against the ordinary people against working people.”
Vindman lives in South Florida after moving with his family to Broward County a few years ago.
He’s shaping up to be a very formidable candidate as within 24 hours of announcing his run for Senate, he’s raised more than $1 million.
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