The Somali owner of a Minnesota daycare with reported fraud ties won a state legislative race last week in a historically red region.

Democratic state Rep.-elect Abdi Daisane flipped a Minnesota House seat held by Republicans over the past two decades, securing 51.6% of the vote to become his district’s first Somali-born lawmaker.

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