Less than a month after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary, some of Mamdani’s allies are coalescing around another democratic socialist challenging the incumbent Democratic mayor of Minneapolis.

Omar Fateh, running on promises to make Minneapolis more affordable by raising minimum wage and implementing rent control, mirrors New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran

The Minneapolis mayor during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests has lost the backing of the Democratic party to a Somali-American after a contested vote by members of the party.