Rep. Ilhan Omar Underperformed Joe Biden In Her Own District

Minneapolis MN

08 November, 2020

1:01 PM

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Joe Biden won over significantly more voters in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District than Rep. Ilhan Omar, unofficial voting numbers show. Biden won 80.02 percent of voters, while Omar won 64.27 percent. In terms of raw numbers, Biden won 328,617 votes to Omar's 255,816 in her own district. That's a difference of 72,801 voters who supported Biden but declined to vote for their incumbent U.S. House candidate. Omar won nearly 12,000 more votes in 2018 than her 2020 total, despite 2018 being a non-presidential election year that saw smaller turnout in her district. This year, Omar faced a Republican, plus a third-party challenger who may have diverted votes away from her. Omar did not face a third-party candidate in 2018, when she was first elected to Congress.