Rep. Ilhan Omar Faces 3 Democratic Challengers for 2024
Published on November 29, 2023
The controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) faces a tough primary as she seeks a fourth term in the U.S. House, with three Democratic challengers in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. Ms. Omar, 41, first took federal office in 2019. Before that, she was an elected member of the Minnesota State House of Representatives. Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, she and her family fled the Somali Civil War in 1991 and lived in a Kenyan refugee camp for four years. At 12, Ms. Omar moved to the United States and settled in Minneapolis where, according to her campaign website, she fell in love with politics while interpreting for her grandfather at Democratic Party caucuses....