However, a much smaller number of Republican had negative views of Muslim Americans seeking public office (53%) according to that same poll. . This midterms brought the election of the first two Muslim women to congress – Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). ..…

The eight-term congresswoman is also the first Republican woman to win statewide office in Tennessee.  . The daughter of Palestinian immigrants, Tlaib becomes the first Muslim-American won elected to Congress — along with Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar — after she faced only token opposition..…