Ilhan Omar, a member of the team, will face a main competitive opponent

Former Minneapolis Democratic City Council member Don Samuels announced Sunday that he will seek to unseat Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to The Associated Press.

Samuels previously challenged Omar in August 2022, a race in which he was very close overdue, getting 48.2% support to Omar’s 50.3%. Samuels said Omar, a member of the “Squad,” was divisive and believes a more moderate option is needed. seconds in the PA.

“Our congresswoman has a penchant for division and conflict,” Samuels told the AP.

“It has scared the Jewish community,” Samuels told the AP. In addition, he pointed to a “latent and lurking anti-Semitic sentiment that always needs discouraging, and always rears its ugly head in times of national crisis.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hosted an afternoon endorsement to Omar in the 2022 race, but the Jamaican-born Samuels also received significant endorsement of local Minneapolis officials.

“The long lines of the George Floyd and COVID issues continue, with empty storefronts and empty malls because people don’t want to invest anymore. They don’t think it’s safe,” Samuels told the AP.

Samuels opposed defunding the police after the death of George Floyd while Omar, on the other hand, he called it is a “political demand”, according to the AP.

Other declared candidates include Democrat Sarah Gad, a lawyer, Tim Peterson, a military veteran, and Republican Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi-American journalist, according to the AP.

Samuels and Omar did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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