Race Mayor of Minneapolis: Fateh makes comparisons with New York Mamdani

Comparisons between Omar Fateh and Zohran Mamdani are easy to draw.

Mamdani, the Ugandan state assembly of 33 years of New York, The country’s political world has smothered a month ago coming from behind to convincingly win the appointment to the mayor of the Democratic Party in the country’s most populous city.

And with his victory over former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates, Mamdani took a big step towards the first Muslim mayor and first millennium in New York.

Fateh, like Mamdani, is a democratic socialist and a Muslim. And at 35, he is also a member of generation Y.

Democratic socialist nicknamed the Midwest Mamdani scores a major approval in the submission of the mayor of Minneapolis

The candidate of the Democratic Socialist Mayor, Omar Fateh, is seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 19, 2025. (Omar Fateh campaign)

And similar to Mamdani, he dominated a democrat of the establishment to obtain crucial approval while he submits for the mayor of Minneapolis.

“From New York to Minneapolis – Change is coming!” The section of twin cities of the Democratic Socialists of America praised a week and a half ago after Fateh won the approval of the Minneapolis chapter of the Democratic-Agressor Party, which is the name of the Democratic Party in Minnesota.

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Fateh won the approval on the outgoing mayor Jacob Frey, who arises for a third term. But Frey, who has repeatedly faced during his mandate with a left -wing municipal council in the highly blue city, remains on the ballot and will compete with Fateh during the November elections.

And similar to New York, Minneapolis will use the voting classified as a choice to determine his next mayor.

“This approval is a message that Minneapolis residents have made broken promises, vetos and politics as usual. It is a mandate to build a city that works for all of us,” Fateh told Frey.

But Frey stressed that “this election should be decided by our entire city, not by a handful of delegates. I am impatient of a full debate with Senator Fateh on our files and visions for the future of our Minneapolis. In November!”

Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a democrat, confronted the democratic socialist Omar Fateh during the city’s mayors in 2025. (Alex Kormann / Star Tribune via AP, file)

Fateh, similar to Mamdani, offers voters what can be characterized as an extreme left program.

In New York, Mamdani pushes proposals to eliminate prices to set up the vast bus system from New York, making Cuny (City University of New York), without tuition fees, rents on municipal housing, offering “free daycare” for children up to 5 years and the implementation of municipal housing, offering “free daycares” grocery stores managed by the government.

The president of the RNC maintains that Mamdani “ Faced with the New Democratic Party ”

Fateh, the son of immigrant parents of Somalia who, five years ago, became the first Somali-American elected to the Minnesota Senate, promises an elected mayor to increase the minimum wage of the city, increase the supply of affordable housing and fight what he calls police violence. Similar to Mamdani, Fateh calls to replace some of the functions of the police service with alternatives led by the community. He also wants to issue legal identity documents to undocumented immigrants.

Larry Jacobs, professor of public affairs at the University of Minnesota, underlined the many parallels between Mamdani and Fateh.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the favorite of the mayors in 2025 in New York after winning the appointment of the Democratic Party in the June primary. (Spencer Platt / Getty images)

But he noted that “the big difference is in Minneapolis, you have a mayor with two mandates who is probably always the favorite to win.”

Jacobs stressed that the Democratic Party is going through “post blues”. He underlined an “authentic division on party leadership and this division is partly between a younger socialist element … and a more moderate version of the party which has relations with business and decreases the disruptive change”.

The Republicans were relentless to target Mamdani and his far left proposals. They tried several times to make him the face of the Democratic Party while trying to anchor him with vulnerable democrats to be re -elected in the middle of next year.

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While not grasping the kind of media frenzy that surrounds Mamdani, the Republicans and the Conservatives began to target Fateh.

Among them is Charlie Kirk– The conservative host and Magonde Rockstar who directs the influential Turning Point USA Political Youth Organization. Kirk recently targeted Fateh on his Muslim identity.