She took almost 65 per cent of the ballot, compared to Republican challenger Lacey Johnson's 26 per cent. Omar, a member of the Democrat 'Squad' on Capitol Hill, easily won reelection to Minnesota's 5th district on November 3. Meanwhile Omar's husband Ahmed Hirsi - whom she married in 2002 in an Islamic ceremony before remarrying him in a legally binding union in 2018 - divorced her in November last year. Mynett and his wife, who had been together since 2006 and have a 13-year-old son, got divorced in December last year after seven years of marriage. However, a divorce filing by Mynett's wife revealed the couple separated in April 2019 when he declared his love for Omar. It is not known when Omar and Mynett, who were both married at the time, began their affair. Mynett began working for Omar during the 2018 election - which she won by a landslide, running in a safe seat. Other expenses include video production and editing and website production. The two largest payments in recent months were $404,338.75 paid on July 7 for digital advertising, and another $289,759.58 on July 24 for cable advertising.Ä«etween the start of July and mid-October - the latest date that records are available - Omar has paid eStreet Group a total of $86,500 for 'digital consulting' and 'fundraising consulting'. The majority of the money has been spent on digital advertising, FEC records show, but charges also include consultancy fees and more than $2,700 in travel expenses. The Democrat congresswoman paid husband Tim Mynett's eStreet Group $1.6million between 2019 and July 22 this year, another $1.1million between July 22 and the end of September, and has paid an additional $27,000 since then. Ilhan Omar paid her husband's company $2.8million during the 2019-2020 election cycle, campaign finance records show.
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