MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Minnesota DFL insiders are ripping the party for its decision to take away a Minneapolis mayoral endorsement from Sen. Omar Fateh.

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Even the third-place candidate who was wrongly cut from the endorsement race says he didn’t want it to happen, even though he benefited from the move.

The state party’s announcement Thursday followed an investigation showing mistakes and mishandling of votes tainted the outcome.

In the corrected tally, Fateh got support from a little over 41% of delegates.

Mayor Jacob Frey got about 30%.

And Rev. Dewayne Davis got 20%.

But in the initial count, with 176 votes apparently accidentally ignored, Davis narrowly missed out on 20%, which is the support he needed to make a second ballot.

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