‘I am incredibly honored to be the DFL endorsed candidate for Minneapolis Mayor,’ Fateh wrote to X following the endorsement.
‘This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual. It’s a mandate to build a city that works for all of us.’
More than 1,000 party activists packed the Target Center on Saturday afternoon, where around 5pm, delegates cast their first mayoral endorsement votes via smartphone – launching a nearly two-hour vote tallying process by party officials.
The suspense was palpable as attendees wondered if Frey – who led the city through the turbulent 2020 Black Lives Matter protests – would succeed in blocking the first Somali-American Muslim to serve in the state’s senate.
Mamdani’s endorsement energized left-wing challengers, who celebrated the possibility of unseating Frey at the upcoming DFL convention – while others looked on with doubt and concern over the ‘progressive uprising’ in America’s biggest cities.
