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CBS News
21-07-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
Mayor Jacob Frey challenges Minneapolis DFL's endorsement of Omar Fateh in mayoral race
The campaign for Mayor Jacob Frey is challenging the Minneapolis DFL endorsement of his rival, Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh. According to a news release from Frey's campaign, the challenge was filed with the Minnesota DFL on Monday. The Minneapolis DFL endorsed Fateh at its convention on Saturday. In order to win an endorsement, a candidate must receive 60% of the votes. The Frey campaign said there were an "extraordinarily high number of missing or uncounted votes produced by the highly flawed and untested electronic voting system." "Only 578 votes were recorded in the mayoral ballot conducted using the electronic balloting system, despite the fact that over 1,000 delegates and alternates were checked in at the time of the first ballot," the campaign said in the release. The Frey campaign alleges there's "no plausible reason" why over 20% of the total delegates and alternates would skip voting. The Minnesota DFL said on Monday that it would not comment on the challenge. Fateh said in a post on X Saturday that the endorsement "is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual." WCCO has reached out to the Fateh campaign for comment.
Fox News
20-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Minnesota Democratic Party endorses Omar Fateh for Minneapolis mayor
Minnesota's branch of the Democratic Party endorsed far-left Minnesota State Sen. Omar Fateh's campaign for mayor of Minneapolis on Saturday. Fateh announced the endorsement from the Democratic Farmer-Labor (DFL) party on social media. He secured the endorsement over incumbent mayor Jacob Frey, also a Democrat. "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," Fateh wrote on X. The DFL did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. Fateh has received many comparisons to New York City's Zohran Mamdani. Like Mamdani, Fateh is a Muslim Democratic socialist and, at 35, a fellow member of Generation Y. Fateh, a son of Somali immigrants, became the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2020. He pledges that, if elected mayor, he would raise the city's minimum wage, increase the supply of affordable housing, and combat what he calls "police violence." Frey criticized the DFL's endorsement of Fateh in a campaign statement, arguing the party convention where the decision was made had been "irregular." "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," campaign spokesperson Sam Schulenberg said. "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," Schulenberg added.
