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Victory Offers Muslim Candidate New Platform to Oppose Trump

By Associated PressIn AP News, News, U.S.Posted August 16, 2018

Photo of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar celebrating with her supporters

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump, meet Ilhan Omar. Just two years ago, the Minnesota Democrat became the first Somali-American elected to a state legislature. Now she's likely to become one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress. And she says one of her top priorities will be resisting...