Alpha News editor Anthony Gockowski reports on the DFL in convention assembled at Target Center this past Saturday. The convention seems to have rejected two-term incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey in favor of Mamdani Commie socialist Omar Fateh.
The convention was an obvious shambles. It is a perfect metaphor for the results of the city’s domination by leftist governance, and of the state’s, for that matter.
They couldn’t even take the time to tote up the crucial second-ballot vote on their fancy-pants electronic voting system. No count was made in support of the endorsement. It was a visual vote and it was looking pretty good to the Fateh crowd. They grate, but they don’t tabulate. The number of delegates on the floor at the time the endorsement was called remains unclear. It remains something of a mystery.
The Star Tribune has no additional story reporting on the convention today. It only runs Eric Roper’s column. Roper attended the convention and has a little additional reporting, but not much. Roper notes that the number of delegates who voted on the first ballot fell noticeably below the number of delegates in attendance. We knew that, but that too remains a mystery. There’s no accounting for the uncounted.
There were around 650 of those delegates present, and 400 alternates waiting to fill the rest of those 140ish unfilled slots. The practice ballot had over 1000 responses. There should have been around 800 votes. People weren’t counted. Please accept the truth now that you have it
— Jacob Hill (@JHillMPLS) July 21, 2025
Anthony’s story includes posts from the convention by Will Stancil. Stancil’s posts are suggestive of the shambles underlying the convention’s endorsement.
The issue is that the convention rolled out an electronic voting system that seemed to break. No one is sure but many voters were not receiving confirmation emails their votes were recorded. (I voted four times and received one of the eight emails the system said I should get)
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) July 20, 2025
Stancil also commented: “Tons of us, having been to DFL conventions before, were fully expecting the breakdown – someone I talked to basically laid out all the ways it would break in advance. But I was NOT expecting any problems to simply be rushed past like they were.” Ain’t got no expectations…
Kyle Stokes is a reporter for Axios Minnesota. And the winner is…
At 9:30 p.m., the @MinneapolisDFL is now voting for endorsements based on the raising of attendee badges.
With only @OmarFatehMN supporters present, Fateh was just announced as DFL-endorsed candidate.
A @Jacob_Frey campaign spox confirms the mayor’s supporters had left pic.twitter.com/hClihifeSF
— Kyle Stokes (@kystokes) July 20, 2025
I would like to add this footnote based on my own past observation. In 2018 the powers-that-be in the Fifth District DFL accredited me to report on the convention that vomited up Ilhan Omar. I attended the convention, held on Father’s Day that year, and stayed until its conclusion. Omar’s endorsement by that convention was a function of her support among the white left-wing DFL brigade that had previously supported Keith Ellison as the leftward most viable candidate. I believe the same is the case with Fateh’s support in this case. Stancil’s observation below comports with my observation at the 2018 convention.
“Somali rule of Minneapolis”? I may not support Omar Fateh, but his base of support at yesterday’s convention was white leftists, not Somali. He is a leftist candidate supported by leftists. You can literally look at pictures from yesterday and see this.
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) July 21, 2025
The winner of Minneapolis’s November mayoralty election will have to prevail in a ranked-choice voting system. The DFL crowd count that would prefer not to count the old-fashioned way loves complications. As Stalin explained: “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”
