Overview
- With one week to go, four frontrunners — Jacob Frey, Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis and Jazz Hampton — debated at MPR/Star Tribune in a 15-candidate ranked-choice race set for Nov. 4.
- Fateh distinguished himself by backing a $20 citywide minimum wage by 2028 and exploring a local wealth tax, while declining to call for hiring additional police officers.
- Frey pressed to grow the Minneapolis police force and to move buses off Nicollet Mall, a proposal opposed by Fateh, Davis and Hampton.
- Fateh, Davis and Hampton are urging voters to rank them together under a “Slate for Change,” a strategy echoed by a PAC’s “rank all 3” materials and overlapping endorsements.
- The Minnesota DFL rescinded its earlier endorsement of Fateh, leaving no official party endorsement as early voting continues and second- and third-choice votes loom large.