President Donald Trump’s endorsement wasn’t enough to power Mike Lindell to the Republican nomination for governor in Minnesota. The former MyPillow CEO is projected to lose to Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth in Tuesday’s Republican primary.
Lindell is a conspiracy theorist and strong supporter of Trump and his outlandish claims that voter fraud corrupted the 2020 presidential election. His advocacy made him a target for a series of defamation lawsuits but won Trump’s support.
“Mike Lindell deserves a BIG WIN IN MINNESOTA today,” Trump said Tuesday on his Truth Social platform. “Nobody has worked harder, and given up so much, in fighting for free and fair Elections.”
Though he had support from the national leader of the Republican Party, Minnesota Republicans wanted someone else to be their standard-bearer in the governor’s race, endorsing health care industry executive Kendall Qualls.
Minnesota Republican Party chairman Alex Plechash said Minnesota Republicans were surprised when Trump endorsed Lindell in July.
“We strongly support the President and his agenda, but Minnesota Republicans must choose the candidate best positioned to defeat Amy Klobuchar,” Plechash said in a statement last month
Same thing happened in GA. Trump just moved on and endorsed the one that beat his pick.
Oh darn, the guy who chopped up discarded mattresses and put them in pillows had another setback. Don’t worry, I am sure Trump will just appoint him to some important position soon.
It feels sad that I felt relief that he didn’t win. That’s how low my faith is in the electorate at this point.
Demuth might be worse.
She was the ringleader for the state house coup back in 2025 (where they tried to elect her speaker of the house after playing games with absent members.)
I was rooting for him, because his residence is in Texas, and he votes in Texas, so he is ineligible to run for office in Minnesota. I was hoping he’d win the primary, then they’d disqualify him, and the Democrat Klobuchar could run unopposed.
because his residence is in Texas, and he votes in Texas, so he is ineligible to run for office in Minnesota.
Then why was he running for office in Minnesota? Why not run for office in Texas?
(Or at least change residence first. Changing residence is pretty easy when you’ve got money.)
Because cocaine told him it was a good idea, so he did it. That’s like his entire life trajectory.
haha Republicans are such morons. They voted for a health care industry executive as their “standard bearer” because of course they did. Not this this shitbird would have been better, just sayin’.
Just a quick reminder that nobody ever has to concede. They win or lose and that’s that. In case anyone was worried.
If anyone ever gets a time machine, please be sure to go back to 2000 and inform Al Gore of this, along with “you playing nice won’t make them play nice”.
How long until he whines that it’s RIGGED and that he’ll “investigate” it
He already did
Yeah like he’s literally refusing to concede, stating his “experts” have “uncovered anomalies”. He was supposed to have had a press conference by now…
I’m in no way an expert on election matters, but I believe the next step in the playbook is to enrage his supporters, and get them to storm the state capitol building.
Then comes the press conference where he can blatantly lie about how he was in no way responsible for it.
The same “experts” who had mountains of evidence of 2020 tampering 🙄
Just a quick reminder that he doesn’t need to concede. It makes no difference. (I’ve been in plenty of threads where folks don’t realize that)
Are the “cyber ninjas” on the case?
Cyber police are on the way, because he done goofed.
This guy blew it all and got NOTHING back at any single point lol. It’s incredible.
Dude went from a homeless addict to a millionaire and decided to throw it all away for Trump. Incredible.
Oh man, Q Anon Anonymous did an episode on Mike Lindell’s life, and this guy’s entire life is punctuated by making it big and losing it all over and over. His life could be the plot of an Oscar-worthy movie
He reminds me of Charlie’s weird uncle from Always Sunny.
Isnt he claiming fraud already and not conceding?
Are there odds Trump does an early test run here to put Lindell into the race and show clear “voter fraud”?
By voter fraud i mean people actually just voting
And we’re talking about a Republican primary, not the general.
The numbers:
The Associated Press called the race for Demuth at 11:26 p.m. ET as the state speaker had secured 43.6% of the 93% of the votes counted.
Lindell, who was backed by President Donald Trump, came a distant second with 32.3%% of the votes.
Kendall Qualls, a former healthcare executive who has backed the Minnesota GOP, placed third with 21.4% of the vote.
Klobuchar won the Democratic primary with 89.6% of the votes, and polls show her with a wide lead in the general election.
Right around 32% of americans are truly disconnected from reality and fucked in the head.
It’s actually a bit better. Minnesota does have open primaries, but you can only pick 1 to vote in per primary.
So only 32% of people that chose to vote in the republican primary.
Roughly 685,000 people voted in the democratic primary while only 413,000 people voted in the Republican primary.
Based on those results, I put the figure at 53.7%
To be fair, the guy did figure out how to make a pillow Nazi propaganda.
Both options suck ass. A healthcare executive is absolutely someone * wouldn’t want in government.
Good thing it’s Minnesota, so neither had a chance anyhow.
Yeah. Voting always seems to tell us a number around there actually.
that’s actually an alarming number of votes… (for the pillow guy)
Lmao
Oh my god theres no fucking way this guy is running for office. At least everyone will get a free pillow right? … right?!?
Sure, you get a free “pillow”.
(Actually a lumpy bag of industrial waste foam cutoff pieces.)
The guy literally looks like he ate Tweety Bird and is holding him captive in his mouth.
OH BULLSHIT.
He clearly looks exactly like Charlie Kelly’s weird uncle from always sunny.
