Flowerbed warnings apply (they really, really don't like her):
U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar is one of two Muslim women in the House.
She represents Minnesota's 5th district, which has a large population of Somalian refugees who have become citizens and is often referred to as "Little Mogadishu." Ilhan Omar is herself a Somalian refugee who became an American citizen.
You'd think the people who she supposedly represents would love her but this Somalian concert at the Minneapolis Target Center paints a very different picture.
In a previous fact check meant to own the Conservative Right when they blamed her election on the Somalis in Minneapolis, Politifact gives us the answer for why they do not:
If we use the high end of the Census Bureau's statewide estimate for Somali Americans in Minnesota -- 55,200 -- then this means the 5th district was probably home to about 27,600 Somali Americans.
So, Omar won more than 65,000 primary votes in a district that likely had about 27,600 Somali-Americans. This means she had to have won tens of thousands of votes from non-Somalis.
And even this probably overstates the impact of Somali-American voters.
Not all of the 27,600 Somalis in the district are able to vote, since Minnesota's Somali population skews young… no more than about 5,000 Somali voters would have cast a primary ballot.
And that assumes they voted for her at all.
The truth is that the Somali-Muslim population hates her pro-LGBTQ+ and pro-abortion platform, as evidenced in this video.
The reality that Politifact so conveniently paints is one in which Representative Omar represents the mostly white, liberal interests of her district at the expense of her former countrymen and countrywomen, and that's why she sounds more like Bernie Sanders than a Somalian... or an American for that matter.
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