The ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ is banking on a grassroots campaign to unseat the Democratic mayor

Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, hopes to defeat Jacob Frey by focusing on affordability, wages and public safety

On a rainy October day, dozens of volunteers showed up at a Minneapolis park to grab campaign literature they would leave at voters' doors, hoping to buoy up a democratic socialist into the mayor's office.

A handful of door-knockers ran into an apartment building to escape the rain, joining Omar Fateh, the mayoral hopeful sometimes dubbed the Mamdani of Minneapolis".