Gross. A Qanon Truther is running against Ilhan Omar.

[Initech]

QAnon is a Trump-era phenomena centered on a conspiracy theory that alleges that Trump administration insiders have been dropping clues, in the form of cryptic riddles posted on anonymous imageboards, about a supposed secret plan to take down the “deep state” and a worldwide network of satanic pedophiles said to include A-list Hollywood figures and top-level Democrats. Believers, who call themselves “anons,” dedicate themselves to decoding the posts. Early on, QAnon adherents claimed that Trump was secretly working with then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller to expose the Satanists.

People who believe in QAnon are increasingly frequent fixtures at Trump rallies. At a campaign rally in North Carolina last week, President Donald Trump praised a baby wearing a onesie emblazoned on the back with the “Q” emblem sometimes worn by adherents to the theory.

Travis View, co-host of the “QAnon Anonymous” podcast (which takes a critical look at the Q phenomenon), noticed today that Stella had responded to pro-QAnon Twitter users on her account and had used the hashtag “#WWG1WGA” popularized by QAnon believers online. A closer review of her Twitter account reveals that Stella has not been shy engaging with QAnon content.
(Screenshot / Twitter)

Right Wing Watch inquired further using the contact submission form on Stella’s campaign website, and we were answered by someone calling themselves Heather, who said they were an unpaid communications volunteer on Stella’s campaign who was forwarded our inquiry. Heather told us via email that she wanted to make clear that Stella “stands 100% behind the principles of patriotism, unity/inclusiveness (WWG1WGA!) and love for country that Qanon promotes.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/this-gop-challenger-to-ilhan-omar-100-stands-with-qanon/

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Doubt it will get anywhere

The 5th district elected and seemed happy will Keith Ellison and now Ilhan.

[Wounded Bear]

2. I believe there is a large South Asian/Muslim immigrant community there, right?

Which makes electing her rather logical.

Not that RWers waste much time on logic.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. I think you're right, but I don't have those figures. Anyway...

The district is strongly Democratic with a Cook Partisan Voting Index (CPVI) of D+26—by far the most Democratic district in the state.[5] The 5th is also the most Democratic district in the Upper Midwest. The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) has held the seat without interruption since 1963, and the Republicans have not tallied more than 40 percent of the vote in almost half a century.

The district is represented by Ilhan Omar, the first Somali American to ever serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the first black woman to represent Minnesota in that chamber. Omar, also Muslim American, succeeded future Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, the first Muslim American to serve in Congress.[9][10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%27s_5th_congressional_district

[OliverQ]

4. I believe she won that district by over 70%.

[pecosbob]

5. I feel secure in the belief that people of this bent invariably have sh*t in their closets

a pedophile, or an embezzler, or a cousin in the basement. Though, not a guarantee of being laughed at at the polls these days with a Pedophile-in-Chief in the White House.

[Blue_Tires]

6. Good luck with that shit...

[Initech]

7. Qanon needs to be flushed down the sewer from which it came.

[OnDoutside]

8. Lol.

[SharonAnn]

9. Fine. Get the GOP to waste a lot of money on that race.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Update

A pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress who is aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar in Minnesota has been charged with a felony after allegedly stealing from stores.

Danielle Stella was arrested twice this year in Minneapolis suburbs over allegations that she shoplifted items worth more than $2,300 from a Target and goods valued at $40 from a grocery store. She said she denied the allegations.

Stella, 31-year-old special education teacher, was reported this week to be a supporter of the baseless “QAnon” conspiracy theory about Donald Trump battling a global cabal of elite liberal paedophiles.

This week Stella also described Minneapolis as “the crime capital of our country”. She has in the past complained that local police were “overworked and overburdened” and said that, if elected, she would work to reduce crime.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/25/danielle-stella-republican-ilhan-omar-charged-felony-qanon-trump