US Midterms 2026
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Ilhan Omar, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member who has represented Minnesota's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019, faces Republican John Nagel, a retired police officer, in her 2026 bid for re-election.
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The U.S. is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over decades-old immigration paperwork, with a raid on her home and related developments as part of a Justice Department probe.
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BBC reports on the criminal investigation involving U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-05).
Federal authorities seized Omar’s phone and issued subpoenas to some of her relatives as part of a grand jury investigation.
Federal authorities are probing Ilhan Omar (MN-05) over possible fraud in her immigration paperwork.
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Ilhan Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, and spent her early years in Baidoa, in southern Somalia, as the youngest of seven siblings.
Her family fled the Somali Civil War and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya before securing asylum in the United States and arriving in New York in 1995. After a period in Arlington, Virginia, the family settled in Minneapolis, and Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 at the age of 17.
She graduated from Thomas Edison High School in 2001 and earned a bachelor's degree in political science and international studies from North Dakota State University in 2011.
Before entering elected office, Omar worked as a community nutrition educator at the University of Minnesota from 2006 to 2009 and as a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education.
She managed Andrew Johnson's 2013 campaign for Minneapolis City Council and served as his senior policy aide from 2013 to 2015.
In 2016 she won election to the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 60B, becoming the first Somali-American legislator in the United States, and she served there from 2017 to 2019.
After six-term incumbent Keith Ellison declined to seek reelection in 2018, Omar won the 5th district seat with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to Congress and, with Rashida Tlaib, one of the first Muslim women in Congress.
She won re-election in 2020, 2022 and 2024, and she serves as deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In February 2023 the Republican-controlled House voted to remove her from the Foreign Affairs Committee.
On October 12, 2026, Homeland Security Investigations agents executed a search warrant at her Washington, D.C. home, an action Omar called an attempt to "weaponize federal law enforcement".
Minnesota's 5th congressional district encompasses eastern Hennepin County, including all of Minneapolis, and Ilhan Omar is its incumbent, re-elected with 74.3% of the vote in 2024.
After expressing interest in a 2026 campaign for the U.S. Senate, Omar announced in April 2025 that she would seek re-election to the House.
She won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary with 80.7% of the vote, defeating former ICE attorney Julie Le, AFSCME Council 5 vice president Latonya Reeves, Nate Schluter and nurse Abena McKenzie.
In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Republican John Nagel, a retired police officer who won his party's primary with 52.2% of the vote.
