>> Cathy: MINNEAPOLIS DEMOCRATS GATHERED LAST WEEKEND TO ENDORSE A CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.

AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY TWO DECADES, THE CITY CONVENTION RESULTED IN AN ENDORSEMENT.

STATE SENATOR OMAR FATEH BEAT TWO-TERM INCUMBENT MAYOR JACOB FREY TO GET THAT NDORSEMENTS.

FREY'S CAMPAIGN IS CONTESTING THE RESULTS.

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EXPLAIN FOR FOLKS, WHY IS THE FREY CAMPAIGN APPEALING?

>> BASICALLY THEY'RE ARGUING THAT THE NUMBER OF VOTES CAST WEREN'T NEARLY ENOUGH WHEN THEY DID COUNT THEM DURING THE EVENING OR DURING THE DAY THAT THERE WEREN'T AS MANY AS YOU WOULD EXPECT TO BE, WHY WOULD PEOPLE GO TO THE CONVENTION AND BE THERE ALL DAY IN SOME CASES FOR MANY HOURS AND NOT VOTE TO ENDORSE ANYONE, THEY DID A FEW VOTES DURING THE DAY, BUT THAT'S THE CRUX OF WHAT THEIR ARGUMENT IS CENTERING AROUND, LIKE WHY WOULD ALL THESE PEOPLE SHOW UP AND DIDN'T VOTE.

>> Eric: IT'S A REAL GRUDGE MATCH, THE D.F.L.

KIND OF THE TRADITIONAL HUMPHREY TYPE DEMOCRATS AND THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS WHICH SENATOR FATEH IS PART OF.

AND THAT WAS REALLY SHOWN PRETTY DEEPLY AT THE CONVENTION, THAT'S KIND OF SURFACED NOW I GUESS.

>> EAH, I MEAN, FATEH IS GETTING A LOT OF ATTENTION NATIONALLY NOW BECAUSE OF THE COMPARISONS THAT ARE BEING DRAWN WITH ZOHRAN MAMDANI IN NEW YORK CITY AND PEOPLE ARE SAYING HE'S THE MAMDANI OF MINNEAPOLIS AND SO ON BECAUSE MAMDANI IS ALSO A EMOCRATIC SOCIALIST AND THERE ARE SOME SIMILARITIES, THEY'RE BOTH YOUNG, THEY'RE BOTH IN THEIR 30s, THEY'RE BOTH DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS, AND MUSLIM, BUT THERE ARE ALSO SOME BIG DIFFERENCES.

SO WE'RE GOING TO BE WRITING A LOT MORE ABOUT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS IN THE COMING DAYS.

>> Cathy: I'M GLAD YOU SAY THAT BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY SOME VIEWERS SAYING CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS BELIEVE IN?

>> YEAH, I MEAN THINK BERNIE SANDERS, YOU KNOW, WHAT OES HE STAND FOR, YOU KNOW, POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

TAKING POWER FROM CORPORATIONS AND GIVING IT TO THE PEOPLE AND FAKING FOR WORKER RIGHTS AND -- FIGHTING FOR WORKER RIGHTS AND FIGHTING INCOME INEQUALITY, AOC, ANOTHER EXAMPLE.

I GUESS IF MAMDANI WINS IN NEW YORK CITY HE'D PROBABLY BE THE MOST PROMINENT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST AS FAR AS MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

>> Eric: WHAT COMES WITH THE D.F.L.

ENDORSEMENT AT THE CITY LEVEL?

>> WELL, NORMALLY MONEY, BUT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN MINNEAPOLIS IS PRETTY BROKE RIGHT NOW.

I THINK WE SAW THAT WITH THE PRICES OF SOME OF THE SANDWICHES AT THE CONVENTION THAT WE WROTE ABOUT BEFORE THE CONVENTION.

IN CFSS AND LIKE TABLE TABLES AND SWEETS THEY BLAMED REALLY BIG AMOUNTS ALTHOUGH BLAMED TARGET CENTER FOR THAT.

DON'T THINK THEY HAVE A LOT OF MONEY BUT VOTER INFORMATION AND SO ON GOES TO THE ENDORSED PERSON AND OF COURSE HE'S GETTING A LOT OF ATTENTION NOW TOO.

>> Eric: WHY IS FREY SO UNPOPULAR?

>> OH.

>> Eric: WITH THAT GROUP, WHO KNOWS CITYWIDE, BUT.

>> I THINK IN MINNEAPOLIS IT'S A PRETTY LIBERAL CITY AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PRETTY TRONG CONTINGENT OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS AND VERY PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE, LOOK AT THE CITY COUNCIL, THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, FURTHER TO THE LEFT THAN FREY AND THEY'RE CONSTANTLY SEEM TO BE BICKERING OVER THINGS.

AND I JUST THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOUD CONTINGENT OUT THERE THAT WANTS TO ELECT SOMEONE MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN FREY.

BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'LL SUCCEED.

>> Cathy: MOST ONVENTIONS, POLITICAL CONVENTIONS, WE'VE ALL COVERED A BUNCH OF THEM, USUALLY THE DELEGATES LEAVE UNIFIED BUT THIS IS CLEARLY ANYTHING BUT IN MINNEAPOLIS, RIGHT?

HOW IS THAT FALL ELECTION SHAPING UP?

BECAUSE MINNEAPOLIS HAS GOT RANKED CHOICE VOTING SO FREY WILL RUN AGAINST FATEH, RIGHT?

>> YEAH, AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OTHER CANDIDATES IN THE ACE TOO, DWAYNE DAVIS, JAZZ HAMPTON, BRENDA SHORT, IT WILL BE RANKED CHOICE OF COURSE.

I THINK THAT THERE'S NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN THEM, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE HAMPTON AND DAVIS AND FATEH ARE SORT OF ALL UNIFYING AND SAYING VOTE FOR ANY OF US BUT FREY.

SO, YOU KNOW, I EXPECT IT'S GOING TO BE A KNOCK DOWN, DRAG OUT FIGHT 'TIL NOVEMBER.

>> Eric: ANY RUMBLINGS ABOUT FUTURE CHANGES IN HE ENDORSEMENT PROCESS FOR MINNEAPOLIS D.F.L.?

IT WAS KIND OF A CLUSTER.

>> YOU KNOW, ONLY FROM A LAWMAKER I JUST TALKED TO A LITTLE BIT AGO WHO WILL BE ON THE SHOW LATER.

BUT THAT'S, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY BIG PUSH FOR THAT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE TALK THAT I'VE HEARD SINCE THE CONVENTION IS THAT THIS IS KIND OF HOW IT ALWAYS IS AND YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE SORTS OF THINGS THAT HAPPENED AND I HAVE NOT HEARD ANY BIG OUTCRY.

>> Eric: WE'LL BE READING.

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