Democratic Socialist Omar Fateh Wins DFL Endorsement in Minneapolis Mayoral Race
“In case you’re wondering, yes, Fateh admires Mamdani. Fateh celebrated Mamdani’s primary win by promoting himself for Minneapolis mayor.”
Just as we were absorbing the shock of Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, another extreme candidate has secured victory — this time in the Minneapolis mayoral race.
State Sen. Omar Fateh won the endorsement of Minnesota’s Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) on Saturday night. (The DFL is the Minnesota affiliate of the national Democratic Party.)
Fateh was one of five candidates, including incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey, competing for the nomination.
Minneapolis DFL Chair John Maraist confirmed to KSTP-TV 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that Fateh “won the party’s endorsement through a show of badges.”
Afterward, Frey’s campaign manager released the following statement:
This election should be decided by the entire city rather than the small group of people who became delegates, particularly in light of the extremely flawed and irregular conduct of this convention. Voters will now have a clear choice between the records and leadership of Sen. Fateh and Mayor Frey. We look forward to taking our vision to the voters in November.
Frey’s campaign told KSTP that they plan “to submit a challenge to the DFL.”
I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor. This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us. https://t.co/rU6v90TJPp pic.twitter.com/9KX3jSMvcP
— Omar Fateh (@OmarFatehMN) July 20, 2025
Earlier in the day, KSTP reported:
About 800 delegates were preparing to cast their votes at Target Center in downtown Minneapolis.
To win the party’s endorsement, a candidate must receive 60% of the votes, meaning the DFL City Convention could adjourn at 10 p.m. without a mayoral endorsement, which would not be uncommon.
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Sen. Fateh received a video-recorded endorsement from fellow state Sen. John Hoffman, who has been recovering at a rehabilitation center after he was shot in June during a targeted attack.
Residents supporting Fateh praised him as a backer of union workers and humane homeless response policies.
KSTP acknowledged that “an endorsement of Fateh … would create a unique moment for the city’s DFL Party, possibly signaling a further shift for the party.”
Delegate Colton Baldus told KSTP, “People are starting to accept, you know, some more socialist and more, you know, to the left politics, which, in my view, is a good thing. It’s a progressive thing.”
“It means that we’re starting to, I don’t know, put our weight in, and become more and more, you know, worker-centered in our politics, and I think that’s a very good thing,” Baldus added.
Fateh kicked off his campaign last week with the following video:
I’m ready to work hard to, one, build a Minneapolis that working people can afford to call home. Two, protect our city from a hostile White House, and three, diversify our city’s public safety.
By increasing the minimum wage to $20 by 2028 and passing rent stabilization to stop price gouging and incentivizing new construction, we can protect workers.
Protecting all of our communities from Donald Trump is not letting MPD interact with ICE, whether it’s for an immigration raid or not. Our residents deserve a mayor that will stand up to Donald Trump and say, “No, not in our community.”
Did you know that the city’s own data showed that 47% of calls to MPD can be diverted to non police response? Cops aren’t social workers. Investments in programs like these ensure that the appropriate response arrives when we call 911 and we can actually free up resources to focus on violent crime that detracts from community safety.
My name is Omar Fateh, and I’m running for Minneapolis Mayor because for working people, it’s getting harder to build our lives in this city we love. To make an affordable Minneapolis that works for everyone, we need a Mayor that works as hard as we do. I’m ready to get to work. pic.twitter.com/CzYkmgKfxQ
— Omar Fateh (@OmarFatehMN) July 13, 2025
In her coverage of Fateh’s campaign launch, Mary Chastain wrote that Fateh’s platform mirrors Mamdani’s.
She added, “In case you’re wondering, yes, Fateh admires Mamdani. Fateh celebrated Mamdani’s primary win by promoting himself for Minneapolis mayor.”
One of the main lessons learned from Zohran Mamdani’s primary win is that volunteers engaging directly with voters goes farther than big money.
Across the country, the status quo is failing city residents. Together, we can move Minneapolis forward, but I need your help🧵
— Omar Fateh (@OmarFatehMN) July 10, 2025
It seems the Democratic Socialist Party is set on transforming America, one city at a time.
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If this monster wins and the Madmani wins NYC, session will rear its ugly head. These states involved would eventually become like these big cities and become totally unAmerican. This is the way Islam works and if you need proof look at the UK or France.
Democrat states are already shit holes. There is nothing these two clowns will do to make those shit holes more shit holes.
Oh they can do a lot more damage than has been done and facilitate the further falls of their states.
I think you meant “secession” and I will disagree slightly. I think the cities will become Mogadishu clones and the battle will be to contain the violence from spreading. Guess which side the Left will be on.
Subotai Bahadur
David Betz from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, actually wrote something to that effect. Its focus is Britain, Europe, and the wider West, but it parallels your US focus.
Part 1: https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/
Part 2: https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west-part-ii-strategic-realities/
The latter is the more important one for this discussion.
National Dems and MN Dems should be forced to defend his statements and embrace Omar Fateh as one of their own. The more aggressive-Marxist they appear, the less attractive Dems will be to reasonable people.
The DFL believes that a “controlled” shift to the left embracing the militant fringe will assure victories without eventually losing the old levers of power. The Euro-Whieness of the original DFL (looking at you gov) is dommed to become a powerless forgotten footnote.
The progressives are morons, each and every one. They’ll be sacrificed for the greater good as soon as it is possible. I hope it is painful for them.
You just have to shake your head, and realize this will have to play out if this insanity is to be purged, which it will be, but only after a bunch of unnecessary damage and strife. At least America has turned a corner from the Obama spell and poison, as bad or worse than mRNA.
If this is what the people of Minneapolis want they should get it. However, there is nothing that demands Minnesota residents must endorse it or let alone support it.
We don’t know that the people of Minneapolis want this. They haven’t been asked yet. They’ll have their say in November. All we know is what 60% of the delegates to the DFL convention want.
he also got an absentee mail in vote from hit ler and about 5000 more from argentina
There comes a time where you need to take a step back and let people learn the hard way.
Minneapolis: Frey is a disaster, vote him out, anything would be better than this.
DFL: Hold my beer…
When the Democrats’ backs are to the wall, they show their true colors.
Red and Green
“Delegate Colton Baldus told KSTP, “People are starting to accept, you know, some more socialist and more, you know, to the left politics, which, in my view, is a good thing. It’s a progressive thing.”
“It means that we’re starting to, I don’t know, put our weight in, and become more and more, you know, worker-centered in our politics, and I think that’s a very good thing,” Baldus added.”
Wow. A comment this stupid should hurt.
Gooder and harder, the saying goes.
Well done, Minneapolis. Your descent to Trashcanistan status is almost complete.
Worker-centric by people who generally refuse to work.
I had thought that the new antivirals worked better than this.
Good point. Looks like this guy has got The Slim.
Dear Minneapolis:
You get what you deserve.
And you really deserve this guy!
I laugh in your face so hard I can’t breathe!
Surely this stupidity is concentrated in the Twin Cities and not the rest of the state? It has been decades since I went to the state from Mankato to St. Cloud to Sauk Center and Alexandria and to Willmar and even over to Still Water. I never met any lunatics.
As if Somalis haven’t cost Minnesota enough already. I bet everyone outside of Minneapolis are happy Obama imported those third world savages and pluncked them down there. Minneapolis is what Biden did to America letting millions of illegals bum rush our border then flying them all over the country and dropping them off. Everywhere except near his place in Delaware and Martha’s Vineyard of course
Khat Head creep.
As a practical matter how much/what would change if this guy becomes Mayor instead of Frey….the dude who let the city burn, stood down police to allow a precinct building to be destroyed, cut LEO funding and allowed insurgents to create an ‘autonomous zone’?
Nothing will change in Minnesota and New York with the election of these two intellectual midgets.
Democrats fully deserve people like these two and it’s because people like these two are so extreme that your otherwise sane potential Democrat voter isn’t being picked up in polls about turning out in the mid terms next year.
Democrats have no appeal to undecideds or just people capable of thinking for themselves. Democrats deserve this political irrelevance and the beauty is they brought this upon themselves.
Like zohran in NYC. The dems monster is turning against its creator.
Yup…. This is just more evidence (along with Mamdani in NY) that I believe we are living in an entropic society that is moving toward disorder.
Omar Fateh says he wants to cut back on the police. That way there will be funds available to hire more coroners, morticians and funeral workers for the city he loves.
When Lenin took power, he opened the jails and let the criminals out. This opened up space for political prisoners. The reasoning was that criminals were there because of oppression by the government. Criminals wouldn’t be criminals if not oppressed. Crime would go down in part from not enforcing lesser infractions… less oppression. Less oppressors… less oppressed…less crime.
Just think of how much effort the Las Vegas (NM) Dodge City Gang could have saved, if instead of infiltrating the “peace officer” squad and the coroner’s office, they could just have defunded them both.
Rush is again proved right. Politics is show business for ugly people.
When America was rational there would have been a “Fetch” associated with his name.
Lay son koht in front of this idiot and he will become a mind numb simpleton in just a few minutes.
Seems like Democrat delegates are spiralling ever more Extreme Left, and hoping their voters will follow them, while at the same time Democrat politicians are complaining about those who’ve surpassed their extremism and are demanding they take a bullet to stop Trump etc.
How many more dominos are in this game besides Mamdani and Fetch?
Only in today’s world of twisting word meanings can one truly claim to be a “democratic socialist” the terms don’t fit, they are almost opposite. It would be like calling one a “Muslim Christian”.