Dems Cite Voting Irregularies As Reason For Pulling Endorsement Of Minneapolis Mayor Candate

There are two possible ways to read what ‘really’ happened in this endorsement being pulled, and neither the face value nor the political machine reading of it look good for the Democrats.

For context, recall that the Democrats are only a couple of months out from un-electing David Hogg as VP of the Democratic National Committee because he didn’t check the right identity boxes.

Before that, we had the obvious games being played in the nomination process both in shutting hard-left candidate Bernie Sanders out in 2016 and 2020, as well as dramatically eliminating any pretence of caring about public input for who should be leading the party in 2024.

They were afraid Bernie would be too radical to get enough popular public support nationwide for the Blue Team to be elected, so they deep sixed his candidacy.

On the other side of the equation, the same Dems who have sought every opportunity to arrest Republicans for questioning election results have been caught time and again in schemes to rig elections… often pulling their dirty tricks to win their own primaries.

With that as a backdrop, we have news about candidate affiliated with the same Democratic Socialist movement that Bernie and AOC have ties to that has suddenly had his endorsement pulled by the municipal-level Democrats. In other words, they HAD endorsed him, but either because the process was flawed, or perhaps in response to backlash their endorsement caused, that endorsement has been rescinded.

State Sen. Omar Fateh has been challenging the (by Minnesota standards, anyway) more moderate Democrat incumbent, Jacob Frey for his party’s nomination in the mayor’s race in Minneapolis.

Since an endorsement comes with a great deal of support, and access to mailing lists, a candidate endorsement is a serious difference-maker.

However, on Thursday, Minnesota state Democratic Party officials withdrew the Minneapolis chapter’s endorsement, citing “substantial failures” during the convention, which had technological and procedural irregularities. In Minnesota, the state party is called the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
[…] State Democratic Party officials said Thursday that during the convention the online voting system had a meltdown that resulted in a “substantial undercount” in the first balloting.

The undercount disqualified a third candidate, DeWayne Davis, from advancing to an additional round, per the party’s review. Also, a registration check-in sheet was not properly secured, “resulting in the opportunity to replace, delete or alter ballot ID numbers.”- Just the News

Both camps reacted how you would expect. The incumbent, who did not receive the endorsement, praised the party’s commitment to fairness in response to a ‘flawed process’. That included machine errors and unsecured ballots. (Sound familiar?)

The far-left challenger is crying foul, alleging that ‘the establishment’ was ‘theatened by our message’ and ‘disenfranchised thousands’  who cast votes on convention day.

The party has embraced ambiguity and is endorsing neither candidate over the other. But Democrats have a problem. If the incumbent is correct, their entire claim about a machine-based electoral process whose results people can trust when the chips are down has been disproven by official decisions made by the party to throw out a result.

If the challenger is right, that this is a machine-politics dirty trick to freeze out the outsider because some guy in a proverbial smoke-filled-room (or more likely, the donor class) made the decision that he’s not a viable candidate, every claim they have ever made about being pro-Democracy is once again exposed as a fraud.

There really is no easy way out of this hole in which the activist left has dug themselves.