4:31 p.m. – The local party’s endorsement raised Omar Fateh’s profile and drew comparisons with New York lawmaker and fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who won the mayoral primary in New York City.
In recent years in Minneapolis, the DSA has gone from a fringe group to a major insurgent wing of the party — and more traditional DFLers have pushed back. The local DSA chapter declared in a June email it was effectively divorcing itself from the Democratic Party because Democrats “failed to beat Trump twice” and are “contributing to economic inequality, wars, deportations, the climate crisis, etc.”
Leading up to the Minneapolis DFL convention, moderate Democrats tried to make it impossible for DSA-endorsed candidates to get DFL nods, a move some DSA members saw as an attempted purge. The moderates backed off, saying the idea had become too divisive.
4:28 p.m. – Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne, who supports Omar Fateh for mayor, called the news “deeply troubling” and said it will have “reverberations beyond the city election this year.”
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