President Joe Biden and Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
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A pollster included Rep. Ilhan Omar in a hypothetical match-up against President Joe Biden.
The poll showed Biden beating her by 53 points.
Omar dismissed the poll, noting that she’s not even eligible to serve as president.
Ilhan Omar for President?
That’s the question that one pollster recently posed to a group of 2,500 registered voters, envisioning a hypothetical scenario in which the Minnesota Democrat launches a primary campaign against President Joe Biden.
The poll, conducted by The Center Square and Noble Predictive Insights, found that Biden would trounce Omar by 53 points, drawing 63% support against Omar’s 10%.
Omar would narrowly outperform Marianne Williamson, which the poll found currently garners 9% of Democratic voters’ support, but would fall short of the 16% held by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
But there’s just one problem, aside from the fact that Omar is backing Biden’s re-election: She’s not eligible to serve as president anyway.
Article 2, Section 1 of the United States Constitution requires that the president be a “natural born citizen” — generally speaking, someone born in the United States.
Omar, who came to the US as a refugee in the 1990s, was born in Somalia.
“You all know I am not eligible to run for President,” Omar wrote on Twitter on Monday, accusing the pollster of “wasting people’s time.”