BREAKING: Voters Decide 'Squad' Democrat Ilhan Omar's Political Future

On Tuesday evening, voters in Minnesota took to the polls in the Democratic primary to decide if Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) would maintain her position as representative of the state's Fifth Congressional District. The district, comprised entirely within the city of Minneapolis, voted narrowly in favor of Omar.

With more than 95 percent of the vote in, Rep. Omar secured 56.2 percent of the vote compared to Don Samuels' 42.9 percent.

After barely defeating her opponent, a former Minneapolis city councilman, in 2022, Samuels relaunched his campaign in an effort to defeat the three-term incumbent.

Samuels launched his campaign in November, explaining at the time that "Ilhan hasn't helped herself. She has made missteps, even after the last race. There are some folks who are coming [to support me] because of what I am, who I am, and what I will do. And some are coming because of what she's done and what she'll do."

"If there's one virtue that Omar has is that she is consistent," the 74-year-old said about his opponent at the time of his campaign launch. "She is consistently divisive and inappropriate. She's consistently that way personally, locally, nationally, and internationally." Omar barely defeated Samuels by only two points in the 2022 Democrat primary when Omar got 57,683 votes (50.3 percent) to Samuels's 55,217 votes (48.2 percent). 

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