The Melton-Meaux fundraiser funded the acquisition of a $1.4 million television ad and an extensive email crusade that attacked Omar for his ethics. He also pledged to focus on the district’s wishes and not run out of votes, as Omar did 40 times last year. (She says that many were due to the death of a member of the family circle and that the highs were procedural.) She said that when she votes, it is not in the district’s interest, bringing out her opposite vote on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada industry. Agreement.
Melton-Meaux gave the impression of finding some help for his message on a stopover in July in what is expected to be Omar’s first territory: a grocery shopping mall filled with department stores serving the city’s gigantic Somali-American community.
Khadra Hassan told Melton-Meaux that his small clothing store at Karmel Mall had been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and complained that the government has no plan for small businesses like his to survive.
“The stage is the same around you, with all of us,” he told her. An assistant crusader promised to talk to Hassan about asking for help. Hassan later told a reporter that Melton-Meaux could get his support.
“We’re looking for the user to help us to the fullest and get back to the networked paintings and focus on the things we want on the ground,” he said through an interpreter. “And then we’ll make our decision. But now, we want an active user who is able to paint what’s happening here in the district.”
Melton-Meaux raised more than $3.7 million as of June 30, the top of the main taxpayers, adding more than $530,000 from two political action committees that Israel, NORPAC and the united States pro-Israel.
Jeff Mendelsohn, executive director of Pro-Israel America, recalled Omar’s claim that American politicians supported Israel because it was “Benjamin,” and his suggestion that American Jews had divided loyalties.
The local Jewish network is divided, with many politically progressive young Jews supporting Omar, while others have endorsed Melton-Meaux.
State Senator Ron Latz, a Jewish Democrat who has criticized Omar, supports Melton-Meaux in one component for what he sees as a more balanced attitude to Middle Eastern problems than pro-Palestinian Omar.
“It turns out he’s figured out a way to hold back for several months,” he says. “But I think this restriction was imposed from the outside. Obviously, we know his non-public provisions because he continued to say offensive things to the Jews until the reaction became so hot that he felt he had to calm down.
Omar has a complaint within the African-American community, adding that civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, who said Omar had paid enough attention to the densely black neighborhoods of northern Minneapolis.
“She hasn’t established strong relationships with other people living in Northern Minneapolis and hasn’t spent time here to be more informed about the disorders that affect us or to find answers to the demanding situations we face.” she said.
Omar has raised nearly $3.9 million until June 30, the highest commonly from much smaller donors than Melton-Meaux, and still enjoys the top Democratic heavyweights. Omar noted that the party saw his district as “the engine of our state’s electoral participation” and trusted his network in November to break Trump’s dream of using Minnesota.
Charlie Rounds, 64, an LGBTQ defender in Minneapolis, said there was no between Omar and Melton-Meaux. But he said the argument that Omar cares more about fame than service doesn’t suit him. He saw the cash in the open air opposite it as Islamophobia.
“I don’t think it’s Rep. Omar’s choice, I don’t think he’s committed to fitting a star,” he said. “It’s because she’s Muslim and there are a lot of other people who are going to do everything they can to defeat her because she’s Muslim, we have to look at that reality.”
Nour Ali, 37, a Somali American who works in the Minneapolis public school system, said he was linked to Omar.
“She cares about the genuine disorders that are going on, she says what she thinks and is available,” she said. “She was at the protests to communicate about police brutality, it’s anything that proves she’s in touch with other people and that she cares about the cause and that she’s connected to other people.”