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The comparisons between Omar Fateh and Zohran Mamdani are simple to attract.
Mamdani, the 33-year-old Ugandan-born state assemblyman from New York Metropolis, surprised the nation’s political world a month in the past by coming from behind to convincingly win the Democratic Celebration mayoral nomination within the nation’s most populous metropolis.
And together with his victory over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and 9 different candidates, Mamdani took a giant step towards turning into New York Metropolis’s first Muslim and first millennial mayor.
Fateh, like Mamdani, is a democratic socialist and a Muslim. And at age 35, he is additionally a member of Technology Y.
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Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Omar Fateh is seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 19, 2025. (Omar Fateh marketing campaign)
And much like Mamdani, he topped an institution Democrat to earn an important endorsement as he bids for Minneapolis mayor.
“From NYC to Minneapolis — change is coming!” the Twin Cities chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America touted every week and a half in the past after Fateh landed the endorsement of the Minneapolis chapter of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Celebration, which is the identify of the Democratic Celebration in Minnesota.
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Fateh landed the endorsement over incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey, who’s working for a 3rd time period. However Frey, who has repeatedly confronted off throughout his tenure with a left-leaning metropolis council within the closely blue metropolis, stays on the poll, and can face off with Fateh in November’s election.
And much like New York Metropolis, Minneapolis will use ranked alternative voting to find out its subsequent mayor.
“This endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are carried out with damaged guarantees, vetoes, and politics as standard. It’s a mandate to construct a metropolis that works for all of us,” Fateh mentioned, in a jab at Frey.
However Frey highlighted that “this election must be determined by our whole metropolis, not by a handful of delegates. I stay up for a full debate with Sen. Fateh about our information and visions for our Minneapolis’s future. Onward to November!”
Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a Democrat, is going through off towards democratic socialist Omar Fateh within the metropolis’s 2025 mayoral election. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune through AP, File)
Fateh, much like Mamdani, is providing voters what could be characterised as a far-left agenda.
In New York Metropolis, Mamdani is pushing proposals to get rid of fares to journey New York Metropolis’s huge bus system, making CUNY (Metropolis College of New York) “tuition-free,” freezing rents on municipal housing, providing “free childcare” for kids as much as age 5 and establishing government-run grocery shops.
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Fateh, the son of immigrant mother and father from Somalia who 5 years in the past turned the primary Somali-American elected to the Minnesota Senate, pledges if elected mayor to boost the town’s minimal wage, enhance the availability of reasonably priced housing, and fight what he calls police violence. Just like Mamdani, Fateh requires changing a few of the police division’s duties with community-led alternate options. He additionally needs to concern authorized IDs to undocumented immigrants.
Larry Jacobs, a public affairs professor on the College of Minnesota, pointed to the quite a few parallels between Mamdani and Fateh.
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner in New York Metropolis’s 2025 mayoral election after successful the Democratic Celebration nomination in June’s main. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photos)
However he famous that “the large distinction is in Minneapolis you will have a two-term mayor who’s in all probability nonetheless the favourite to win.”
Jacobs highlighted that the Democratic Celebration goes by means of “publish election blues.” He pointed to a “real division on the route of the social gathering and that division partially is between a youthful socialist component… and a extra reasonable model of the social gathering that has relations with enterprise and pulls again on change that’s disruptive.”
Republicans have been relentless in taking intention at Mamdani and his far-left proposals. They’re repeatedly attempting to make him the face of the Democratic Celebration whereas additionally making an attempt to anchor him to susceptible Democrats up for re-election in subsequent yr’s midterms.
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Whereas not grabbing the type of media frenzy that surrounds Mamdani, Republicans and conservatives have began concentrating on Fateh.
Amongst them is Charlie Kirk—the conservative host and MAGA-world rockstar who leads the influential Turning Level USA political youth group. Kirk not too long ago took intention at Fateh over his Muslim id.
