Overview

• At the July 20 convention in Minneapolis, DFL delegates selected state Sen. Omar Fateh over Mayor Jacob Frey for the party’s mayoral backing.
• The endorsement provides Fateh access to the party’s volunteer network, voter data and discourages members from publicly supporting non-endorsed candidates.
• Frey’s campaign denounced the convention as flawed and irregular, insisting the final decision belong to the city’s full electorate rather than a small delegate group.
• It marks the DFL’s first mayoral endorsement since 2009 and highlights growing rifts between traditional Democrats and the party’s Democratic Socialist wing.
• Fateh has pledged to raise Minneapolis’s minimum wage, expand affordable housing and combat police violence if elected mayor.