Ilhan Omar attempting to recruit former Republicans against the War

Ilhan Omar reaches out to Marjorie Taylor Greene as former Trump allies break ranks

Representative Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat, said Tuesday that former allies of President Donald Trump who have spoken out against the war with Iran deserve credit, and singled out former Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and right-wing influencer Candace Owens by name.

Omar made the remarks in an interview with Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor, calling on Americans across the political spectrum to work together against what she described as a presidency in crisis.

The overture is striking on its face. Greene was among the GOP members who pushed to oust Omar from her House seat just last year. Now Omar says she wants to embrace Greene and others who have, in her words, "gotten off the sycophantic train."

What this really amounts to is a familiar left-wing play: find a disaffected Republican, hold her up as proof that the right is fracturing, and use the moment to press a progressive narrative.

Omar isn't extending an olive branch out of genuine bipartisan goodwill. She's leveraging Greene's public break with Trump to advance her own political argument, and doing so on a progressive podcast, not in a committee room or on the House floor.

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She is being invstigated by the House Oversight Committee.

In the meantime,tThe U.S. and Iran are reported to be "very close" to a deal. A key breakthrough includes a tentative agreement for Tehran to transfer its stockpile of enriched uranium—which Trump referred to as "nuclear dust"—to international control.