Claiming That the Vote Was Rigged, the Minnesota Democrat Party Voids the Party's Endorsement of Somali Socialist Omar Fateh

Wait but I thought Democrat election wins were all legitimate and beyond questioning.

A couple of months ago the Minnesota Democrat Party voted to give the challenger for Minneapolis mayor, the Somali socialist Fateh, over the currently-serving mayor, who is Jewish. This had bigger advantages than just the dubious power of a Democrat Party endorsement -- Fateh was granted party monies to campaign against the incumbent.

But Democrats are now claiming that foreigners rigged the election.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party vacated is endorsement following State Democratic Party because of a "substantial undercount" in the nominee balloting at a recent convention.

By Natalia Mittelstadt

Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has vacated its endorsement of democratic-socialist state Sen. Omar Fateh for Minneapolis mayor, after a review panel found flaws in the voting process.

Fateh is challenging the more centrist incumbent Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey.

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However, on Thursday, Minnesota state Democratic Party officials withdrew the Minneapolis chapter's endorsement, citing "substantial failures" during the convention, which had technological and procedural irregularities. In Minnesota, the state party is called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

With the endorsement, Fateh would have had access to party resources and valuable voter databases for his campaign, which would have helped in his race against Frey, a two-term incumbent who has raised significantly more money.

Fateh has been compared to New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, as they both seek to move their cities further left by taxing the wealthy to build affordable housing, capping rent increases, and overhauling how public safety resources are spent. Each are democratic socialists, Muslim and have African roots.

The Fateh campaign's co-manager, Graham Faulkner, criticized the revocation of the endorsement.

"Our campaign sees this for what it is: disenfranchisement of thousands of Minneapolis caucusgoers and the delegates who represented all of us on convention day," Faulkner said. "The establishment is threatened by our message."

There is no such thing as election cheating, unless the Democrat-Media Party Establishment says there is.

Bonus: Of course.

posted by Ace at 03:28 PM

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