The convenient ignoring of fact is that the northern suburbs stayed in droves for the likes of Tom Emmer, while Duluth and the Arrowhead kept the faith while the northern metro exurbs, just north of the seven metro counties put Stauber, STAUBER!, into Congress.
The Ellison viatory was propelled by the extremism of Wardlow together with progressives, particulary young people, in Metro staying sane.
Press coverage ingored Ellison's base being decisive, and progressives in general were damned by silence. The Democratic Party will fail to survive if it continues to take progressives for granted. Yes, Walz defeated the endorsed DFL candidate Erin Murphy by primary voting, but Walz always played well in rural areas such as CD1 in Minnesota. Murphy gaining the endorsement shows a future path for the DFL, but will Ken Martin follow? Splinter caucusing is unsound; witness the Latino Caucus torpedoing Leah Phifer in order to attain defeat in CD8.
When will they learn? Will they? Will another 2016 disaster be required to even gain attention? It surely failed, the 2016 disaster, to generate anything much beyond finger pointing at James Comey, who Trump equally dislikes, and whining. Yes, business for Podesta Brothers lobbying likely took gas, but Goldman Sachs did fine, and would have, either way. One result progressives forced, a showing of hands of entrenched foot-dragging troglodytes installing Tom Perez, TOM PEREZ!, into the drivers seat of the take-big-donor-cash-and-orders DNC. As if Debbie never left. Also, there seemed smug silence accompanying tongue clucking to undo Ellison, until the DFL woke up to how slimy-egregious Doug Wardlow really is, at which point the party belatedly generated realdougwardlow.com in order to let the truth out even if it means not undoing the only progressive to have won a Minnesota statewide election. Sigh. Sad.
Illan Omar is good news, not to be ignored, but it's the same Congressional district Ellison had nailed down as progressive, and Omar keeps it so, so bless her having won the endorsement AND primary there. May she advance and prosper representing progressiveism in, of all places, Washington, DC. The linked item concludes:
In addition to her other "firsts," Omar is first person born on the African continent to be elected to Congress.
Trump would have it differently, an African born Senator who later moved higher being a Trump talking point, but we all know Trump is full of