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Minneapolis mayor to appeal after losing party endorsement to democratic socialist
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, JUL 22 – Mayor Jacob Frey alleges serious irregularities in the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement process after losing to progressive Omar Fateh, who won over 60% delegate support.
- The Minneapolis DFL held its 2025 city convention over the weekend at Target Center, where State Senator Omar Fateh was endorsed for mayor, defeating incumbent Jacob Frey.
- Frey's campaign challenged the endorsement process on Monday, citing a flawed, untested electronic voting system that undercounted or missed hundreds of votes during the convention.
- The voting included online balloting with 578 votes counted out of over 750 delegates, followed by a last-minute show-of-hands vote securing Fateh’s endorsement amid many Frey delegates having left.
- Mike Erlandson, a former DFL chair, described the process as 'the most unfair and procedurally flawed' in his 43 years and warned it could damage future endorsements if not reversed.
- The DFL party declined comment and stated challenges may require adjudication, while the November general election is expected to be a competitive race between Frey and Fateh.
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MINNEAPOLIS—After more than 12 grueling hours inside the Target Center, the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party made history on Saturday, July 19, endorsing State Sen. Omar Fateh for mayor—the first such endorsement in a Minneapolis mayoral race since 2009.
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The radical Left has been staging takeovers of Democrat Party machinery across the country. Now they’ve scored their biggest victory yet in a major American city. And Minneapolis leftists just sabotaged themselves with one betrayal that will haunt them. The socialist takeover reaches Minnesota’s biggest city The Minneapolis Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party just handed their endorsement to […]
Frey campaign asks DFL to invalidate Fateh endorsement, cites convention problems AlphaNews.org
Share This StoryCiting “several well-documented problems” at the Minneapolis DFL endorsing convention, Mayor Jacob Frey is asking the statewide DFL Party to invalidate the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement for mayor. On Saturday, the Minneapolis DFL held its endorsing convention inside the Target Center. At that event, the party unit endorsed candidates for many local offices, but the most anticipated contest was the race for the DFL mayoral endorse…
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