Ilhan Omar accuses Trump of acting like a Somali ‘DICTATOR’ and warns ‘don’t come for me’
CONGRESSWOMAN Ilhan Omar accused Donald Trump of acting like a Somali “dictator” in a Twitter rant.
Omar also posted a meme saying "don't come for me" after she and the other members of the progressive 'Squad' won re-election.
“Trump targeted our state and we took that personally,” , as .
Four years ago, Omar’s Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District gave Trump just 19 percent of the vote.
Minnesota has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1972.
According to the , this year, Omar made the extra effort to win the war against by increasing a larger voter turnout in support of .
“We don’t know each other, but he’s racist and xenophobic, so he hates everything I stand for,” she told the outlet.
In the election’s final days, Omar tried to drive Trump’s margin lower, delivering 300,000 votes or more for the Biden and campaign.
According to the congresswomen, her effort made it “impossible” for Republicans to win her state.
“She doesn’t need to increase turnout here to win her race,” Ken Martin, the chairman of Minnesota’s Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, told the outlet.
“She could take a vacation and she’d get reelected, easy. But she recognizes that she has a responsibility to drive up turnout; it’s really important for all of our statewide races, especially the presidential race.”
Omar in fact drove up those results, winning the state for the Democratic nominee Biden.
As a result, 1,696,713 million Minnesotans voted for Biden while 1,466,486 million voted for Trump.
“It’s been drastically easier this year,” Omar said. “I think people are very clear-eyed about their desire to vote Trump out.”
After over their respective Republican challengers.
During one of his rallies in Wisconsin last Wednesday, , claiming, “she doesn’t love our country.”
After reports came out that Omar won, the that “the results of this election are not the end,” but rather, “this is just the beginning.”
“We are building a movement that sees my struggle as inherently tied to your struggle, and sees a world where all workers can be uplifted,” she added.
by Republican figures that have said a Biden administration would be a “Trojan Horse of the radical Left” and would be easily influenced by her and other prominent progressives.
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In response, she said, “I know that for them we’ve become sort of the boogeyman of the election, but it’s because of two thing.
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“One, it’s because we are not backing down in holding this administration and the Republicans accountable and calling their hypocrisy out.
“But we also resonate with the challenges that everyday Americans are having.”