Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on US polls, ‘dictator in the making’ and Harris’s ‘huge blindspots’
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“It is not only democracy that is on the ballot... but the realisation that we have a dictator in the making if we were to give Trump a second presidency,” says Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar in an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain.
On the high stakes in the elections, the prominent Muslim politician says that rights and liberties, “bodily autonomy,” policies like student debt cancellation, and the progress made us over the years will “under threat” if Trump comes to power.
Speaking about Kamala Harris’s candidacy, Omar says Gaza is a “huge blindspot” of the Biden government. “I have called on the president to impose an arms emargo… I do believe US laws and international laws are being violated. There is an ongoing genocide.”
On the challenges facing Kamala Harris, Omar says “most people don’t know who the Vice President is”. She also talks about Harris’s policies, challenges, and the consequences of the media’s “lost journalistic ethos”.
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