“We Will Not Allow Trump To Silence Us” — Ilhan Omar Celebrates Re-Election In Minnesota’s 5th With Resounding Mandate Despite
“Thank you, Minnesota! I’m incredibly honored to continue to represent you in the People’s House with a resounding mandate. We will not allow Trump to silence us,” Rep. Ilhan Omar said after winning re-election in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.
Omar secured a fifth term by defeating Republican nominee John Nagel in Minnesota’s 5th, the most Democratic district in the nation, covering Minneapolis and its inner-ring suburbs, despite President Donald Trump calling for her resignation and reviving identity fraud allegations, which she denies.
The victory comes after years of anti-immigrant rhetoric from Trump targeting the Somali-born refugee.
Following her first election to Congress in 2018, Trump said she should “go back” to her home country. He has repeatedly described her as “garbage” and called for an investigation into her.
At campaign rallies and press conferences, Trump escalated the attacks, saying “ Ilhan Omar is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage” and “She’s bad news, really bad news. She’s bad for our country.”
In one press conference he stated: “Ilhan Omar, one of my favorites, she’s a low IQ person and she’s also a very dishonest person, she oughta get the hell out of our country, she shouldn’t be here”.
He also said she “should be in jail” and declared she ought to be “sent back to Somalia,” the nation her family escaped when she was a girl in a refugee camp.
During the 2026 midterm campaign, Trump again disparaged Somali immigrants as “garbage”, saying “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” while using the same word for Omar and accusing her friends of being garbage.
Last month, Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence was raided by Homeland Security investigators amid an apparent investigation over immigration paperwork filed on her behalf by her late father when she was a child — a move Omar called an “outrageous abuse of power and an unprecedented escalation in the weaponization of federal law enforcement to target political enemies.”
Despite the raid, the resignation calls, and years of “go back” attacks, Omar won decisively, thanking Minnesota voters for the resounding mandate to continue representing them in the People’s House.
