Ilhan Omar wins re-election to US House of Representatives
US Representative Ilhan Omar has won a second term in the Congress Minnesota’s 5th congressional district in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Omar, 38, defeated her Republican challenger, African American businessman Lacy Johnson, by 64.6 percent of the vote to 25.9 percent, according to The Associated Press news agency with 99 percent of votes counted. Omar is the first Somali American member of the US Congress and one of the first two Muslim […]
