5 takeaways from Florida Senate primary: GOP Sen Ashley Moody will face DSA's Nixon

President Donald Trump celebrated the primary defeat of longtime political foe Alexander Vindman on Tuesday night after Democratic Florida State Rep.

Angie Nixon pulled off a stunning upset in the primary that sought to flip the seat held by Sen.

Ashley Moody , R-Fla.

This will be the first general election race for Moody, outgoing Republican Gov.

Ron DeSantis' handpicked successor for former senator and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and it will be an ideological battle between a leading legal mind and one of the Democratic Socialists of America's up-and-coming figures in Nixon.

Here are five takeaways from Tuesday night's high-profile Florida Senate primary: FAR-LEFT SOCIALIST WINS MASSIVE FLORIDA UPSET: KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM TUESDAY'S PRIMARIES Trump dunks on Impeachment 1 witness The Obama-Biden establishment Democrat era sees another one of its national political figures suffer a loss in Florida, a state that once was former President Barack Obama's key swing state.

"SleazeBag Vindman loses tonight to a Radical Left Lunatic," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday night.

"How cool is that???" Vindman, a retired Army Lt.

Col. who fled Soviet Ukraine as a child with his twin brother Eugene, rose to prominence as a Russia hawk during the final years of the Obama administration's Pentagon.

Vindman testified during the first Trump impeachment trial that he "was asked to serve" on the National Security Council in July 2018, serving under fellow impeachment witness Fiona Hill.

He became a polarizing national political figure when he testified during the 2019 House impeachment inquiry about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky .

SOCIALIST SURGE: FAR-LEFT DEMOCRATS TEST NATIONAL PLAYBOOK AFTER BLUE-CITY PRIMARY SHOCKS Dems again burn big money opposing DSA candidate Vindman, backed by the Democrat establishment, raised 16 times as much money as Nixon, but like the big-ticket loss in the Michigan Democratic primary race won by Abdul El-Sayed against Rep.

Haley Stevens, D-Mich., it proved to be money wasted before November's midterm general elections.

That comes as Democrats have widely reported issues with fundraising right now.