(JTA) MoveOn, the progressive advocacy movement, in its first official endorsements for the 2020 election cycle said it will back Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib for re-election.
The organization said in a statement that it has over 16,000 members in Minnesota’s 5th District, and that Omar, a Democrat, was backed for re-election with a vote of 77 percent of those members.
She was endorsed “overwhelmingly” by MoveOn members in 2018, the organization said.
“Despite a consistent barrage of anti-Muslim, racist, and other attacks from Donald Trump, the right wing, and even some of her Democratic colleagues, Rep. Omar hasn’t been afraid to use her position to fiercely advocate for the people of her district,” the statement said.
