After town hall attack, Ilhan Omar condemns 'terrorizing' immigration push and criticism from GOP

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar ignored staffers' pleas to end a town hall early and get a medical check Tuesday after a man rushed the podium and sprayed a substance at the Democratic congresswoman.

Omar, who was not injured in the attack, said after the town hall ended that she has "survived war" and that she is "definitely going to survive intimidation and whatever these people think that they can throw at me because I'm built that way." The congresswoman came to the United States as a refugee who fled Somalia's civil war.

The man accused of attacking Omar has been identified as 55-year-old Anthony J. Kazmierczak, a Minneapolis Police Department spokesperson confirmed to CNN.