“It’s a slap in the face for East Africans who participated, and every Minneapolis resident who participated,” Osman said. “We were told to participate in democracy, and we showed up. We did everything we could to follow the process.”
Osman said he expected this move to create divisions within the DFL party going forward in general elections.
“It’s very unfair, in my opinion,” he said. “My community needs to be able to trust the DFL, but this kind of decision is a slap in the face.”
4:31 p.m. – The local party’s endorsement raised Omar Fateh’s profile and drew comparisons with New York lawmaker and fellow democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who won the mayoral primary in New York City.
In recent years in Minneapolis, the DSA has gone from a fringe group to a major insurgent wing of the party — and more traditional DFLers have pushed back. The local DSA chapter declared in a June email it was effectively divorcing itself from the Democratic Party because Democrats “failed to beat Trump twice” and are “contributing to economic inequality, wars, deportations, the climate crisis, etc.”