Episode 508 - A DSA Mayor for Minneapolis? (w/ Omar Fateh)

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Minnesota State Senator Omar Fateh made headlines in July after winning the state Democratic Party's endorsement for mayor of Minneapolis as a DSA-backed, millennial Muslim going up against an establishment-backed incumbent. It was giving big Mandani energy until that incumbent, Jacob Frey, challenged the result and got the endorsement revoked. Now, with less than two months until Election Day, Fateh joins Bad Faith to discuss comparisons to Zohran, why Frey has lost the confidence of the party, how DSA candidates can remain accountable to the organization, and how to handle the corporate media's attacks on the defund movement -- especially as a candidate running in the city where George Floyd was killed.

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0:11.0	I'm here with Omar Fatei. I'm here with Omar Fate.
0:41.3	You know him as the DSA candidate that very famously won the endorsement of the Democratic
0:50.4	Farmer Labor Party in Minneapolis.
0:53.6	But then what is given is taken away.
0:56.9	And he's here on Bad Faith Podcast to explain what dynamic has been unfolding in this
1:02.4	progressive race for the mayor of Minneapolis.
1:04.6	Welcome to Bad Faith Podcast.
1:06.7	Thank you so much for having me.
1:08.4	All right.
1:09.1	So I found myself personally kind of confused when I saw the news both about you winning the DFL
1:15.6	endorsement and then what happened afterward because it was very much framed by the media at the time
1:20.7	as being sort of analogous to Zoramam Dhanis, winning the Democratic Party primary in New York. But the posture was a little bit different
1:29.2	than that, right? So can you help us understand what happened and what DFL is and what the relevance
1:34.6	of winning that endorsement would have been? Yeah, absolutely. And the DFL is the Democratic Party.
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