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    Democrats Are Falling Into the Ilhan Omar Trap

    By rushing to stand with the controversial congresswoman, the 2020 contenders are allowing Trump to transform her into the face of their party.
    by David Frum Apr 14, 2019 4 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    Many of President Donald Trump’s tweets backfire, but not his tweet attack on U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar. That one tweet succeeded to perfection. Trump wishes to make Omar the face of the Democratic Party heading into the 2020 elections—and now he has provoked Democrats to comply.

    Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have offered full-throated endorsements of Omar. “Ilhan Omar is a leader with strength and courage. She won’t back down to Trump’s racism and hate, and neither will we. The disgusting and dangerous attacks against her must end,” Sanders . Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, and Pete Buttigieg have expressed themselves more circumspectly, but. Of the 2020 hopefuls, only Amy Klobuchar added any to her statement about Omar. (“You can disagree with her words—as I have done before—but this video is wrong.”) Joe Biden and Cory Booker have thus far refrained from comment.

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