Short on money and volunteers, St. Paul DFL will skip mayoral endorsement

In Minneapolis this summer, Democratic activists held a raucous convention to decide who should get the local party’s endorsements in the upcoming city election, a chaotic process that eventually saw the mayoral endorsement nullified by the state DFL.

Not so in St. Paul.

This year, none of the left-of-center candidates for mayor will get an endorsement from the local DFL. Short on money and committed volunteers and trying to reorganize around a changing election calendar, the St. Paul DFL will not hold precinct, ward and city conventions to endorse a candidate for mayor. Instead, St. Paul’s Democrats and progressive voters are on their own in deciding which of the candidates should be their top choice to lead the capital city.

They will choose five candidates, four of them left-of-center: Mayor Melvin Carter, state Rep. Kaohly Her, Yan Chen, who sought a council seat in 2023, or Adam Dullinger, a political newcomer running to Carter’s left. Mike Hilborn, who ran as a Republican in a 2024 legislative race, will also appear on the ballot in the heavily Democratic city.

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