It’s finally official. Republicans finally get what they’ve been wishing for. Appearing on Esme Murphy’s Sunday show, former Minneapolis City Councilman Don Samuels confirmed that he’s primarying Ilhan Omar in the DFL primary for Minnesota’s Fifth District. Though he’s planning on changing his messaging slightly, he’ll still be attacking Omar from her right flank.

This time, Samuels “said he still plans to run on a public safety platform, but he also speaks of a ‘crisis in leadership,’ brought on by extremists on the far right and far left of American politics and of an ‘exhausted majority’ of American voters.”

[It’s a rematch worth cheering, too. Samuels is a liberal Democrat but he’s not a nut, and he’s not a terroris-network sympathizer either. Besides, the only three Republicans in MN-05 all declined to run in this election, so … — Ed]