‘Squad’ member Ilhan Omar easily fends off primary challenge from moderate Minn. Dem

Hard-left “Squad” member Ilhan Omar cruised to victory over her more moderate Democratic opponent Don Samuels in Minnesota’s primary on Tuesday night.

Omar won in a landslide, receiving 56.2% of the vote against Samuels’ 42.9%, with 95% of precincts reporting. Omar’s victory came after two members of the lefty faction of the Democratic party, known as “the Squad” lost to more centrist primary opponents in hard-fought races.

In June, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, an anti-Israel politician, lost to George Latimer in New York’s 16th Congressional District. More recently Missouri Rep. Cori Bush, who has advocated defunding the police, lost her St. Louis-based seat to Wesley Bell, a more moderate candidate and the son of a police officer.

Minnesota was a different story. Omar narrowly won her 2022 primary — also against Samuels — with 50.3% of the vote.