Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) announced Tuesday that she is endorsing Nabilah Islam, a progressive political operative, in a competitive Democratic primary in suburban Atlanta.
Omar, a Somali American from Minneapolis who has become one of Congress’s most outspoken progressives since her election in 2018, cited Nabilah Islam’s commitment to passing “Medicare for All,” a Green New Deal and tuition-free college.
“We need a movement that is powered by people, not corporate power, to create the change we want to see in Georgia and around the country — and Nabilah Islam is the leader to do that,” Omar said in a statement.
The endorsement gives Islam, the 30-year-old daughter of working-class Bangladeshi immigrants and a former Democratic Party operative, another boost as she stakes out the left lane in the Democratic primary for Georgia’s 7th Congressional District. If elected, Islam would be just the third Muslim woman in Congress, joining Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat.
