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According to Cecily Davis, who spoke to Fox News on Tuesday morning, Omar is “extremely unpopular” in her town and people are “hungry for change,” therefore Davis is not shocked that the audience chose to boo her.
The whole city of Minneapolis, which is firmly blue and will vote 70 percent for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, is included in the district that Omar represents.
Minnesota’s primary elections are on August 9, but it is very likely that Davis will clinch the Republican nomination and Omar her Democratic race. If this is the case, the two will go head-to-head in the November 2022 midterms.
Although Davis is unlikely to change the district’s color to red, her assaults suggest that residents aren’t thrilled with Omar either, as seen by the booing she heard on Saturday.
Davis told Fox that “people in her own neighborhood are quite upset with her ideas.” I’m not surprised people booed her. Both Somalians and Minneapolis residents find her to be quite disliked.
You know what, the Republican candidate said. They have made the decision to cease operating as a monolith. They are willing to change because they understand that she does not speak for them.
In congressional district five, they are searching for a champion that truly upholds their conservative principles.
Over the Fourth of July holiday, Omar endured shouts and jeers at a Somali music festival in her native Minnesota.
The squad member attended the Somali singer Soldaan Seraar’s concert at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Saturday night, but a viral video reveals that a large portion of the audience was not pleased to see her.
Some videos show people chanting ‘get out!’ at the congresswoman and telling her to ‘get the f*** out of here.’
It is not immediately clear what prompted the boos, but one report said that some people suggest it was related to the Somali-American congresswoman’s support for abortion and LGBTQ rights.
Another possible reason for the cold shoulder could be her comments Thursday claiming that Minnesota has worse conditions than a Somali refugee camp.
‘It was an honor to welcome you to our incredible city,’ Omar, 39, wrote in a tweet along with a 14-second clip of her walking on stage with husband Tim Mynett. The video she shared ended before the chorus of loud boos broke out.
Longer videos shared on Twitter, however, exhibit that the welcome was not so warm.
A two-and-a-half minute video that has amassed more than 2.2 million views as of Tuesday and shows one person on stage pleading, ‘Don’t do this,’ as Omar struggled to speak over the crowd.
‘Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, we don’t have all night,’ Omar said at one point.
Omar, one of the two Muslim woman in Congress, was at the concert Saturday to present an award to the singer who was performing for the first time in the U.S.
The concert also occurred the day after Somali Independence Day, which is on July 1 and celebrates unification of the Trust Territory of Italian Somaliland and the British Somaliland on the same day in 1960, which formed the Somali Republic.
At the age of eight, Omar and her family fled the civil war in her native Somalia and lived for four years in the Dadaab refugee camp, close to the Kenya-Somali border.
At the age of eight, Omar and her family fled the civil war in her native Somalia and lived for four years in the Dadaab refugee camp, close to the Kenya-Somali border.
She was granted asylum in the U.S. and arrived in New York City in 1995 when she was 12. Her family later settled in the Twin Cities two years later.
Speaking at the Gun Violence Community Conversation at North High in Minneapolis on Thursday, Omar said: ‘For six years, I had the privilege of not seeing any violence, until I moved to Minnesota.’
‘My first year in Minnesota I both saw a person shot at Peavey Park, dead on the floor, three weeks after my father and I arrived in Minneapolis,’ she added. ‘Six months later I watched the Minneapolis police put 38 bullets into the body of a mentally disabled Somali immigrant who didn’t speak English.’
Omar described growing up in Somalia and seeing children that she went to school with carrying assault rifles as the civil war began.
The congresswoman went on: ‘I know what that kind of violence looks like but I was fortunate enough to flee that and seek refuge in a refugee camp for four years where I did not witness that kind of violence.’
Omar is one of the most progressive liberal members of Congress – making up part of the original so-called ‘squad’ along with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib.
She appeared at pro-abortion rallies in Washington, D.C. following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last month – she also supports aggressive legislation, including nixing the filibuster, to protect abortion rights.
The Minnesota Democrat is whip of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.tq