-When I said I was the President's nightmare,
well, you're watching it now.
[Cheers and applause]
-Because his nightmare is seeing a Somali
immigrant refugee rise to Congress.
-I think that Ilhan's ability to snap back at the President
has absolutely made her more popular in the district.
I think it's shown us that she's not just quick-witted,
but that she's willing to take on the challenge
of addressing one of the most powerful men in the world.
-Omar has a history of launching vicious, anti-Semitic screams.
-[Crowd chanting "Take her back!"
] -I think they want Ilhan to stand up to him.
And that's all so interesting because, you know,
of all the people who are standing up against him
and the more people he's concerned about, it's her.
So, I think the fifth district wants her
to stand up against him
and to call him out because she reminds him of everything
that he is leveraging to drive more xenophobic, anti-Muslim,
anti-Semitic things that he's been doing.
-I think that people are starting to see that he is,
like, singling her out,
that he wants to attack her and only her
because she's a black Muslim refugee woman.
And so, people are showing up in more support of her.
People who are already progressive
are becoming more progressive
and saying she is the face of the resistance.
-The things that were said caused me to kind of
rally to her, you know?
I met her at the airport when she came back
after he told the squad
to go back where they came from, however he put it.
So, you know, I was there with a boisterous crowd
to greet her when she got back to the airport from Washington.
I'd say that a whole lot of her constituents were very offended
by how she was attacked, and we know her.
I mean, if anyone met her,
it would make all the difference.
-I don't care for the way Trump has all the rheotrics,
but I see why he's doing it, because it makes the Democrats
lose focus of what really is meant,
what they were voted in for.
As far as Omar goes, I believe that she has good intentions,
but I think she's trying to cure all the ills of the world.
-We must be asking, as Israel's ally,
the Netanyahu Government stop the expansion of settlements
on Palestinian land.
-Even though I and members of my community
may disagree with Congresswoman Omar
and a lot of the stances that she takes,
specifically regarding foreign policy
or the US-Israel relationship, I know that she's been privy
and the receiving end of a lot of hateful rhetoric,
and frankly, there are people who are throwing it
at President Trump, as well,
and that flame and that fire just continues,
continued to be fanned,
and we want to talk about the issues.
We want to see our Representative do that work.
We want to see our President do that work.
-He never says anything about her policies.
I mean, you can criticize somebody's policies.
Yes, that's fair.
But you should not criticize her origin
or where she came from or who she is or who she represents.
Like, these things -- He believes or he says
that she's representing only the Islamic society
or the Islamic community or the Somalis
or the whatever he says. It's not true.
She represents a huge district with everybody in it,
and she represents it.
-I think in many ways,
Donald Trumps attacks on Congresswoman Omar
have been an invitation to us as Minnesotans
to really choose who we are, to live into our values,
and to stick together and with our Congresswoman.