It was a rare triumph for the democratic socialist candidate seeking to unseat the mayor of Minneapolis.
After a chaotic party convention held last month, State Sen. Omar Fateh clinched the endorsement of the local Democratic Party, becoming the first mayoral candidate in the city to get that support since 2009.
But the edge was short-lived. On Thursday, Democratic Party officials in Minnesota took the rare step of withdrawing the Minneapolis chapter’s endorsement, citing “substantial failures” during the convention, which was marred by technological and procedural irregularities.
The decision was a blow to Mr. Fateh’s candidacy, which has drawn national attention because of comparisons to the mayoral race that has electrified New Yorkers.
Like Zohran Mamdani, who won New York’s Democratic primary in an upset in June, Mr. Fateh is a young state legislator seeking to steer his city to the left by taxing the rich to build affordable housing, putting caps on rent increases and overhauling how public safety resources are spent. Both men are democratic socialists, Muslim and have African roots.
Mr. Fateh, 35, is challenging Mayor Jacob Frey, a two-term incumbent who has raised significantly more money. The endorsement of Mr. Fateh stood to make party resources and valuable voter databases available to his campaign.
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