A busted ballot and 11th hour rule changes: The Minneapolis DFL Convention was a train wreck

Campaign signs for Omar Fateh line chairs at the Minneapolis DFL Convention Saturday, July 19, 2025. (Photo by Kyle Stokes/Axios)

Editor’s note: Retired journalist and DFL activist David Brauer offered a different take on the convention in Thursday’s Reformer. You can read it here.

Delegates at the Minneapolis DFL endorsing convention last weekend sat for over 10 hours accomplishing almost nothing. A single ballot taken for the mayor’s race failed, with an incomplete vote count…

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