Ex-New York Giants player Carter Coughlin has launched a savage attack on the Democratic party’s Omar Fateh after he was nominated as their candidate for mayor of Minneapolis.

The far-left Fateh announced Saturday that he had been endorsed by Minnesota’s branch of the Democrat party over incumbent mayor Jacob Frey.

But as Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants, was celebrating a landmark moment in his campaign, he was being attacked on social media by former NFL player Coughlin. 

The former Giant, who played college football in Minneapolis with the Golden Golphers and grew up in Minnesota, said Fateh’s socialist policies of rent control and raising minimum wage would set the city back years.

And he didn’t stop there, going on to scrutinize Fateh’s credibilty with some of his followers who support the Democrat promising to freeze rent, raise the minimum wage and combat ‘police violence’.

‘In a city that has endured unimaginable destruction and racial tension, these policies would set Minneapolis back another 10 steps,’ Coughlin wrote on Sunday. ‘MPLS (Minneapolis) needs rebuilding, and this will do the opposite. Pray for wisdom.’

Ex-Giants player Carter Coughlin is not a fan of Minnesota mayor candidate Omar Fateh

Fateh received an endorsement from the Democratic Farmer-Labor party over the weekend

In his replies, the 28-year-old Coughlin clashed mostly with people who supported Fateh’s rent control policy.

‘I’d encourage you to take time to look into what rent control does to city development years down the road,’ he wrote back to one follower. 

‘No one wants to build, to grow, to improve because the economics don’t work. Subsidize low income housing and provide tax funding for those specific developments.’

In a different response, Coughlin said: ‘Designated low income housing by definition is rent controlled, which is great. 

‘Applying rent control to the entire city gridlocks all development. The city deteriorates. These policies only “fix” the symptoms, not the actual problems.’ 

The Somali-born Fateh, 35, became the first Somali-American to be voted into the Minnesota Senate in 2020 and his policies have seen him draw comparisons to Zohran Mamdani, the 2025 Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York.

After his college days with the Gophers, Coughlin was picked in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft by the Giants.

In his first season, he recorded his career sack on none other than Tom Brady.

He went on to play 55 regular season games from the Giants from 2020 until 2023 but last year, was on the practice squad.