There’s Another Democratic Socialist Running for Mayor

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned the nation about New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda on Thursday at a press briefing. But there’s another name she could have added.  

Meet Omar Fateh, a Muslim democratic socialist running for Minneapolis mayor.  

National attention has recently turned towards this 35-year-old native of the District of Columbia, after a video resurfaced online in which Fateh dismissed concerns about immigrant terrorism and called white people the “greatest domestic threat.” 

The son of Somalian immigrants, Fateh grew up outside the Washington, D.C., suburbs, graduating from George Mason University and afterwards moving to the greener pastures of Gov. Tim Walz’s Minnesota around 2015.  

Though a native of the United States, Fateh frequently refers to Somalia as “home.”  

A video on X during a senate campaign speech shows him saying, “I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other, here in Minnesota and back home, and I ask for your support.” 

Fateh was elected to the Minnesota state senate in 2020. That’s the same year as the Black Lives Matter riots in Minneapolis, which cost the city around $55 million in damages, according to a New York Post report. Fateh served two terms in the senate, where he proposed providing free college tuition for families earning under $80,000 a year. 

Fateh, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, will face incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey in the November election. 

Fateh’s mayoral platform looks very similar to another member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s—Zohran Mamdani. 

Besides promising government-paid college education, Fateh is looking to freeze rent prices, raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour, and “end the cycle of the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) violence and brutality that has held our city captive for so many years,” as he says on his website. 

According to the Citizen Watch Report, Fateh “pledges to prohibit the Minneapolis Police Department from interacting with ICE under any circumstance.” 

Fateh is far to the Left on social issues, too. His vision includes supporting illegal aliens in public education, ensuring that Minneapolis remains a “safe haven” for abortion and “gender-affirming healthcare,” and providing funding for employee resource groups to build and sustain a “diverse workforce.” 

But Fateh’s most controversial take yet resurfaced recently on X, where a video from a 2023 senate floor speech showed him suggesting that his white, Republican colleagues sitting next to him looked like terrorists. 

Speaking of illegal aliens, Fateh said, “We’ve heard them being called terrorists. … We’ve heard that they’re a threat to our national security, and that’s a flat out lie.” 

“You want to know who the real threat is?” Fateh continued. “They look like many of the members that sit in the front.”  

The socialist then cited the Department of Homeland Security, saying, “The greatest domestic threat facing the United States comes from ‘racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.’” 

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