President Donald Trump has endorsed the new Republican candidate running against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in the upcoming 2020 election.
“I’m Endorsing you also Lacy, you truly deserve it. You are doing a great job, and Omar is a disaster who wants much higher taxes, hates our Military & our Vets, demands Open Borders, and is fighting to take away our great 2nd Amendment. Good luck Lacy!,” Trump wrote on Monday.
And I’m Endorsing you also Lacy, you truly deserve it. You are doing a great job, and Omar is a disaster who wants much higher taxes, hates our Military & our Vets, demands Open Borders, and is fighting to take away our great 2nd Amendment. Good luck Lacy! https://t.co/RunIPCbTyc
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 4, 2020
Lacy Johnson, a Minneapolis businessman, is running as a Republican for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.
“I’m running against Ilhan Omar. I’m humbled the GOP endorsed me by receiving 90% of the vote. I will win the primary and look forward to defeating Ilhan in Nov. 2020,” he wrote on Twitter Saturday.
Identifying himself as a common sense conservative, Johnson said he will be fighting against the “radical-leftist Ilhan Omar.”
“The media will not expose her, only we can show the people of our district the truth. Radical left-wing policies will continue to fail major cities across America,” he said in a statement.
Johnson, a computer technologist and entrepreneur, unsuccessfully ran for the legislature in 2018, according to The Sun. He said that it will be hard to unseat a Democrat incumbent in the 5th Congressional district, which includes the entire city of Minneapolis, since the seat has been held by Democrats for decades.
However, Johnson says swing voters and disillusioned Democrats could change that, reported The Sun.
