Overview

• Omar Fateh captured 60% of delegate support at the Minneapolis DFL convention, earning the party’s first mayoral endorsement since 2009.
• Mayor Jacob Frey’s team has publicly challenged the legitimacy of the convention’s voting procedures and signaled plans to appeal.
• The DFL endorsement provides Fateh with critical volunteer networks and access to voter data ahead of the November general election.
• Fateh, a first-generation Somali-American and state senator, has campaigned on raising the minimum wage, expanding affordable housing and reforming public safety.
• On November 4, Fateh and Frey will face off in Minneapolis’s ranked-choice general election to decide who leads the city next.