Jacob Frey Fights DFL’s Endorsement of Omar Fateh in MN Mayoral Race
Handing Minneapolis over to Fateh’s brand of socialism would only deepen its problems. Under Frey, the city is limping. Under Fateh, it could collapse.
As far-left as Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is, he’s not a declared socialist. The two-term incumbent must have had the shock of his life when Somali-American State Sen. Omar Fateh, a Democratic Socialist, won the endorsement of Minnesota’s Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) at the City Convention on Saturday night. (The DFL is the Minnesota affiliate of the national Democratic Party.)
On Monday afternoon, Frey’s campaign filed an appeal with the Minnesota (state) DFL “asking for an expedited emergency review of the Minneapolis DFL’s convention process,” according to local media outlet KARE 11. The campaign claims that “flaws in the Minneapolis DFL’s electronic voting system led to Senator Fateh’s endorsement.”
KARE notes that although the endorsement does not guarantee Fateh’s victory in the general election, it is significant because, “[i]n the absence of a primary … it means he will receive more party resources on the campaign trail.”
There may actually be more to Frey’s appeal than sour grapes. The Minneapolis Times reported that the Frey campaign’s challenge to the endorsement is “one of several being filed by other candidates for citywide offices, former state DFL Chair Mike Erlandson, and other delegates to the Minneapolis DFL City Convention.”
Local journalist Kyle Stokes reported that Frey’s challenge “centers on the assertion that some delegates’ ballots almost certainly weren’t counted at Saturday’s convention.”
According to KARE, the Frey campaign argues:
[T]he new electronic balloting system used by the Minneapolis DFL resulted in 578 total votes on the first ballot for mayoral endorsement, which they say is “implausible” based on the total number of delegates attending the convention. The campaign has asked the state party to not only invalidate the Minneapolis DFL endorsement of Fateh, but also to provide “equal access” to the crucial state DFL databases that endorsed candidates receive.
The appeal states:
By far the most egregious failure of this convention was the fact that hundreds of votes were missing or uncounted in mayoral balloting due to the breakdown of the electronic voting system which the Minneapolis DFL and Convention leadership acknowledged was highly flawed.
The entire appeal can be viewed in the post below.
JUST IN: @Jacob_Frey's campaign formally asked @MinnesotaDFL to throw out Saturday's @MinneapolisDFL endorsement of @OmarFatehMN.
Their protest centers on the assertion that some delegates' ballots almost certainly weren't counted at Saturday's convention. pic.twitter.com/EPxGlJqyID
— Kyle Stokes (@kystokes) July 21, 2025
KARE 11 reached out to the city’s DFL Party for comment. Minneapolis DFL Chair Emerita Briana Rose Lee responded with the following statement:
The Minneapolis DFL stands by our endorsement process.
All campaigns were fully involved in the planning process in the months leading up to convention and all convention day decisions, including observing all ballot tabulations. Minneapolis DFL Volunteers worked incredibly hard to ensure a fair process for all involved, and we are proud to have a DFL Mayoral endorsement to support for the November election.
KARE also contacted the Minnesota DFL. A party spokesperson told the media outlet, “Since the State Party may need to ultimately adjudicate challenges that have emerged from the Minneapolis DFL’s city convention, we will not be commenting as they work their way through the process to preserve our impartiality.”
Frey is best known for his weak, inadequate leadership following the death of George Floyd in May 2020.
This is Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey
He bent the knee and cried in his Covid mask at the golden casket of George Floyd
And you know how far left Democrats rewarded him? By replacing him with a Somalian communist
This is what happens when you bend the knee to Marxism – it still… pic.twitter.com/3tcU7YwsXh
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 20, 2025
There’s no denying Minneapolis has declined under Frey’s watch. But let’s be honest: swapping out Frey for Fateh isn’t trading up — it’s a downgrade with consequences. As flawed as the current administration may be, handing Minneapolis over to Fateh’s brand of socialism would only deepen its problems. Under Frey, the city is limping. Under Fateh, it could collapse.
Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey yelled “Long live Somalia” in Somali dialect and embarrassed himself dancing on stage last year.
Yesterday: pic.twitter.com/GeBY0fOheX
— Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) July 20, 2025
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From the sign it looks like Fateh is not planning to work at all once he’s elected mayor.
I hope Minneapolis craters. That might serve as a warning to those currently enthralled with socialism. Probably won’t though.
Minneapolis is a mere shadow of what it was before the George Floyd riots.
it wont collapse
why??
b/c capitalism will be forced to keep it alive
plenty of examples in this country and throughout the world
and please
get his name correct
FATAH.
“Under Frey, the city is limping. Under Fateh, it could collapse.”
Holy moley — what a ringing endorsement! Print the lawn signs!
“Vote for Frey so we can KEEP ON LIMPING!”
If anyone deserves this knife in the back, it’s Jacob Frey.
Note how when an election doesn’t go a Democrat’s way, he immediately cries foul and demands an investigation. And he always gets one, without any of that “standing” bullshit… except when it was his own party who deliberately arranged to shut him out.
Maybe Jacob should go visit Biden, share a pint of Metamucil, and get some political advice. (That’ll be $20,000, please.)
There is no reasonable prospect that anyone who will improve things in Minneapolis can be elected to office. The choices are a slower collapse that still might be fairly soon, or a rapid collapse; all under the control of the Left. Since it cannot be saved, let them get it over with.
Subotai Bahadur
Better to have it collapse under ordinary, run-of-the-mill liberals to demonstrate the toxicity of their policies, than under a Marxist/communist, in which case the “ordinary” liberals can blame it on “extremism.” The problem is liberal thought of most stripes. It lacks an understanding of human nature and lacks common sense.
This is kind of like (forgive the ghoulishness) preferring that people died of AIDS directly, instead of complications like kaposi’s sarcoma or TB; or died of marijuana use directly instead of post-gateway drugs like meth or fentanyl. It’s just not how the slippery slide works.
Unfortunately I don’t see a better option than a rapid, devastating collapse from which it could be rebuilt and restructured utilizing the lessons learned of denying power to the wokiesta leftists. Also unfortunately I am not confident that folks in MN have it in them to do so.
Multiethnic, multicultural melting pot where assimilation to basic universal civic responsibilities, language, cultural markers and standards of behavior is required can succeed, the USA did just that for nearly 200 years. Around the time of the bicentennial assimilation seems to become recast as somehow bad or oppressive and we lost the common cultural threads that bound us together. It didn’t held that the number of immigrants both legal and illegal has exploded since the late ’60s, well beyond the ability of the Nation’s institutions to absorb and assimilate.
When a city gets a minority that refuses to assimilate, claims to want their religious legal system replace the legal system they fled to; and use their infiltration goals to take over their fled to nation,the American system of law will disappear. This may well be the future of Mpls. When too many people, uneducated in their supposed new country believe they are better than everyone else and do not learn why the differences exist, all will lose by freedom’s standards.
Sadly, you are right.
Will Fateh move to change the name of Minneapolis to New Somalia?
He might as well. That’s what the state flag all but says now.
No, the STATE will change its name to New Somalia. They dumped huge numbers of Somalis into small towns and cities all across the state, massively overwhelming the locals. Minneapolis will be renamed “Little Mogadishu”, as it’s already called that in the police “no-go” areas.
I am so very, very thankful that my wife spurred us to flee the Heart of the Hive™ of SW Mpls as soon as I retired from the job that kept us there, and to move to a much saner TinyTown™ here in NW Wyoming, where we can safely observe the collapse of a once-beautiful city and state from a distance of over a thousand miles.
The Sh1tty of Mpls is now entering the Detroit death-spiral as more and more productive entities leave, and more and more parasites (government and free-lance criminals) take over. The major problem for the rest of the (mostly conservative) areas outside the 7-county metro area is that the overwhelming debt of the Twin Sh1tties will drag them down as well.
at least they wont have to take a vote again on whether or not to burn down another police station
there wont be any
,That:s the thing about Democrats: when they’re not stealing elections from Republicans, they’re stealing elections from each other.
“The King of Thieves,” Jack Vance, short story (18pp).
Forget it, Jake: it’s Minnezuela.
The take-away is that Socialists cheat better and harder than Democrats?
There were some very strange things that happened at the DFL convention. The electronic voting was a disaster and the technical guy they had on hand to correct the problems had to leave for a medical emergency. Everyone voted then Frey’s people left leaving only the communists supporters. The machines messed up so they decided to do a hand in the air count and since only the communist’s supporters were there, he won. Over 800 delegates at the convention but under 600 votes cast.
Powerline has a good run down of what amounts to a fixed election for the preferred radical candidate.
“the technical guy they had on hand to correct the problems had to leave for a medical emergency.”
How deep was the knife wound?
Hey, does this sound familiar? Democrats are like toddlers who have learned a new dirty word.
Use fancy automated voting procedures, have them fail, hamstring the repairman, don’t accept any expert help.
It’s all about who COUNTS the votes, Vlad.
Can’t they BOTH lose?