Rep. Ilhan Omar danced on stage and thanked voters in Somali after easily winning re-election in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, despite a federal investigation hanging over her campaign, according to the Daily Mail.
Omar, 44, won about 76% of the vote to roughly 16% for Republican John Nagel, a margin of about 60 points, according to results from the Minnesota Secretary of State. Independent DeVelle Jackson took about 7%.
The race was called shortly after midnight in the Minneapolis-based district, which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+30. Omar has represented the seat since 2019.
Her campaign was shadowed by renewed scrutiny of allegations that she married her alleged brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009 to help him obtain U.S. immigration status. Omar has repeatedly denied the allegations, but the Justice Department is investigating, the Daily Mail reported.
Federal agents searched Omar's Washington, D.C., home on Oct. 12 as part of that investigation. The Daily Caller later reported that Elmi described himself as "a gay man of the East African diaspora" in an academic essay published in August.
Nagel, a retired Minnesota state trooper with 30 years in law enforcement, ran on tackling fraud involving taxpayer money and strengthening border enforcement. Omar focused on wages, affordable housing, health care access, immigrant rights and student debt relief.
Omar returns to a Congress in which Democrats flipped both the House and the Senate. Trump said Republicans would have won in a landslide had he been on the ballot and blamed "bad candidates" and the Iran war.
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