A U.S. Army veteran and Somali refugee vowed on Wednesday to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during the midterm election this fall “one vote at a time,” “Ilhan Omar will NOT be re-elected to Congress this year,” tweeted congressional candidate Shukri Abdirahman. “I’m a 10 year U.S. Army Combat Veteran, and I will be replacing her.”
In response to another Twitter user doubting her ability to beat Omar, Abdirahman said she is “in the community daily” and will win “one vote at a time.” In an interview with Fox News last month, Abdirahman said she believes in a well-funded police force, securing American borders, and preserving the American dream that she found after escaping an authoritarian regime in Somalia.
“I have never forgotten and never will forget what America gave to me. I took an oath when I became a citizen, and I took an oath when I joined the U.S. Armed Forces. Those oaths I took both ended in ‘so help me God’ and neither of them expire,” Abdirahman tweeted in February.
A mother of three, Abdirahman announced her candidacy earlier this year, telling “Fox & Friends First” host Todd Piro that Rep. Omar’s far-left goals are “upsetting to see.” “I gave my life to this country for 10 and a half years, I put my life on the line for the ideals of America, the America that I got used to, the America that I was proud to put my life on the line [for] and I came here legally as a refugee,” Abdirahman said, adding that she spent years in the “slums of Kenya” while being vetted to emigrate to the United States legally.
“Now you have open borders that we don’t know who’s crossing, no one is getting vetted,” she said. “We don’t know how dangerous those people are to our livelihoods.”
Source:-American Military News
