The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) has revoked its endorsement of hard-left state Senator Omar Fateh, a Democratic socialist, for mayor of Minneapolis after finding the endorsing convention had made numerous mistakes.

Fateh, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Somalia, is challenging incumbent leftist Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey in November.

“The Minnesota state senator, 35, is running on an uber-progressive platform that includes cracking down on the police, getting ‘economic justice’ for LGBT and minorities, and keeping Minneapolis a sanctuary for not just illegal migrants but also for abortions and transgender drugs and surgeries, all while spending lots of taxpayer dollars,” The Daily Wire has noted.

Fateh has also consistently referred to Somalia as home, saying to the local Somali community, “I understand that our Somali communities are all connected to each other here in Minnesota and back home, and I ask for your support. There’s always been a link between our community here as well as back home and I’m running to bridge that gap and unite all of us and represent all of us because when we succeed here, we succeed everywhere.”

At the convention, after the second round of voting had been concluded, Fateh claimed he was the winner. But Frey’s campaign asked the state DFL to nullify the endorsement, saying the convention’s electronic voting system had failed, adding that delegates and alternates had been “inexplicably removed as delegates or downgraded before or at the DFL Convention.”

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On Thursday, the state DFL vacated the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Fateh, writing, “After a thoughtful and transparent review of the challenges, the Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee found substantial failures in the Minneapolis Convention’s voting process on July 19th, including an acknowledgement that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention. As a result, the Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee has vacated the mayoral endorsement.”

The DFL found that there was “highly inaccurate tabulation of the first vote in the mayoral endorsement,” pointing out that mayoral candidate DeWayne Davis was improperly dropped from the second round of voting because votes had been undertabulated. Thus, the results from the second round were considered invalid.

“The DFL also concluded that there were multiple delegate-related issues such as the failure to upgrade all alternate delegates, the loss of a credentials book, and the failure to secure the master credentials list which ‘was accessed by non-members of the credentials committee, including the campaigns,” Alpha News reported.

A spokesperson for Frey’s campaign said the Fateh endorsement was “brazen cheating.”

Mayor Jacob Frey spokesperson says endorsement of Fateh was "brazen cheating." https://t.co/eUMU92ZyM0 pic.twitter.com/aHF8U1GYVb

— Anthony Gockowski (@AntGockowski) August 21, 2025

“The election, which is conducted via ranked-choice voting, will take place on Nov. 4th. Early voting begins Sept. 19th and runs through Nov. 3rd,” Alpha News added.

The FBI raided the Maryland home of former National Security Adviser John Bolton on Friday morning as part of a national security investigation involving classified information. 

The New York Post, which first reported the raid, said that it was conducted as part of a “high-profile national security probe.” FBI agents began the search around 7:00 am at Bolton’s Bethesda home, the Post reported. 

“NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” FBI Director Kash Patel posted on X as the raid began. 

NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 22, 2025

Commenting on FBI Director Kash Patel’s social media post shortly after the news broke that said “NO ONE is above the law,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said “Public corruption will not be tolerated,” and Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.”

Fox News reported that FBI agents were also seen removing boxes out of Bolton’s office in Washington, D.C.

When asked about the raid, the FBI told NBC News that it was “conducting court authorized activity in the area. There is no threat to public safety.”

The Post also reported that an official said that a previous investigation into Bolton had been quashed “for political reasons.” 

Bolton served in the first Trump administration from April 2018 until September 2019. After Bolton left the White House, he became a frequent critic of Trump. Bolton was previously the ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush. 

In 2020, he published a book called “The Room Where it Happened” that the Trump administration argued endangered national security. Trump’s Justice Department sued to block its publication and distribution, but that lawsuit was ultimately dismissed after Joe Biden became president in 2021. 

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The book was cited as one of the reasons for the Trump administration to yank Bolton’s security clearance earlier this year. 

“The book was rife with sensitive information drawn from his time in government,” the White House said. “The memoir’s reckless treatment of sensitive information undermined the ability of future presidents to request and obtain candid advice on matters of national security from their staff.  Publication also created a grave risk that classified material was publicly exposed.”

Trump also moved to pull the Secret Service security detail that was assigned to protect Bolton shortly after he took office in January 2025. Last week, Trump slammed Bolton as “dumb” in a Truth Social post written in response to criticism over his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

CNN reported that Bolton was not home at the time of the raid.