Posted on 10/31/2025 3:56:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani soaks up nationwide news coverage, Fox News Digital spoke to a Republican congressional candidate in Minnesota who made the case that the Minneapolis mayoral race is equally important and involves similar candidates.
"Minneapolis has really become a mini New York," Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American Muslim who is running against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, told Fox News Digital.
"The thing is because Mamadani is taking or is getting all the attention from the media from everywhere. People aren't paying that much attention to what's happening here in Minneapolis."
What’s happening in Minneapolis, Al-Aqidi says, is a "dangerous" movement by Democratic Socialists of America to advance economic and public safety policies in line with Mamdani’s platform in New York City.
"If you follow what Zohran Mamdani has been saying, that's exactly a copy and paste from what Omar Fateh is saying, and if you criticize any of his policies, and any of his ideas for mayor to a small city like Minneapolis, then you are a racist, then you're anti-Muslim, then you are anti-immigrant and so forth," Al-Aqidi explained.
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Somali Minneapolis is “Democratic Socialists” advancing policies via NYC’s Mamdani.
<><>Somali candidate Omar Fateh’s ideas for Minn mayor cannot be criticized
<><>if you do, you’re “racist, anti-Muslim, and anti-immigrant.”
Disgusting. These anti America hating Muslim foreigners have no business in civilized society. Deport every damned one of them.
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