“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,” Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar tells Sreenivasan Jain in an exclusive conversation in Washington DC. 

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  over the years will be “under threat” if Trump comes to power. 

Omar says Gaza is a “huge blindspot”, one that could cost Kamala Harris the election . “I have called on the president to impose an arms embargo… I do believe US laws and international laws are being violated. There is an ongoing genocide.”

On the challenges Kamala Harris faces, 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” in a polarized political landscape.  

Watch the exclusive interview here.

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