Trump congratulates Laura Loomer on winning GOP primary for district that covers Mar-a-Lago after she called Ilhan Omar 'anti-Jewish' and slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for suspending her account

Donald Trump has congratulated Laura Loomer on winning the GOP primary for the district that covers his Mar-a-Lago estate, after the conspiracy theorist called Ilhan Omar 'anti-Jewish' and slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for suspending her account.  

Loomer, 27, defeated five candidates to win the Republican primary Tuesday for the US House of Representatives seat that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.

'Great going Laura. You have a great chance against a Pelosi puppet!' the president tweeted in a show of support for Loomer late Tuesday. 

The far-right activist, who has the backing of Trump's friend and former adviser Roger Stone, Representative Matt Gaetz and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, will now take on Democratic Representative Lois Frankel in the November general election.  

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Donald Trump has congratulated Laura Loomer (pictured) on winning the GOP primary for the district that covers his Mar-a-Lago estate

The president tweeted in a show of support for Loomer late Tuesday after she defeated five candidates to win the Republican primary for the US House of Representatives seat that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach

Loomer took the lead in the Republican primary with 42.7 percent of the vote, with nuclear engineer turned professor Christian Acosta coming in second with 25.5 percent.

Other candidates in the race included a former burlesque dancer who now runs an exotic animal business and a former IRS investigator.

Trump cast his vote by mail in Florida's 21st District primary election, after changing his official residence from New York to Palm Beach back in October. 

His and Melania's ballots were returned to Palm Beach officials Monday in time for their votes to be counted, reported the Washington Post.  

The president's decision to cast his own vote by mail comes after he has repeatedly claimed mail-in ballots lead to widespread fraud and even threatened to redo the election if he loses through what he has blasted a 'rigged' system. 

It is not clear if the president voted for Loomer but his social media post confirmed he approved of her victory.  

The controversial 27-year-old has been slammed for making anti-Muslim comments on several occasions in recent years. 

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Trump cast his vote by mail in Florida's 21st District primary election, where Loomer (pictured) took the victory

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The controversial conspiracy theorist has been accused of hate speech on more than one occasion. In November 2018 she was accused of hate speech when she called Representative Ilhan Omar (left) 'anti-Jewish'. She slammed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (right) for suspending her account over the incident

In November 2018 she was accused of hate speech when she called Representative Ilhan Omar 'anti-Jewish'.  

'Isn't it ironic how the twitter moment used to celebrate 'women, LGBTQ, and minorities' is a picture of Ilhan Omar?' Loomer tweeted about the Democratic Minnesota congresswoman. 

'Ilhan is pro Sharia Ilhan is pro-FGM Under Sharia, homosexuals are oppressed & killed. Women are abused & forced to wear the hijab. Ilhan is anti Jewish.' 

When she was banned from Twitter over the incident, Loomer handcuffed herself to Twitter's New York offices. 

That same month, she was removed from a congressional hearing on social media when she hit out at CEO Jack Dorsey for 'shadowbanning' conservatives and accused him of trying to sway the midterm elections toward the Democrats.  

This came after she was banned from using Uber and Lyft in November 2017 for tweeting that 'someone needs to create a non Islamic form of @uber or @lyft' and complaining that she was late to a meeting because she could not find a 'non-Muslim' driver.

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Far-right activist Loomer, who has the backing of Trump's friend and former adviser Roger Stone, Representative Matt Gaetz and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, will now take on Democratic Representative Lois Frankel (pictured) in the November general election

In June 2017, Loomer rushed the stage during a theater production of 'Julius Caesar' in New York to accuse the cast of normalizing 'political violence against the right' and calling them 'Isis'. 

'Stop the normalization of political violence against the right!' she shouted.

'Shame on the New York Public Theatre for doing this! You guys are Isis! CNN is Isis!'  

Loomer will now go head to head in the November election with the current seat holder Franklel - who has been undefeated for four terms and served in Congress since 2013.

The district is strongly blue and Frankel is expected to retain her seat.