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
This guy blew it all and got NOTHING back at any single point lol. It’s incredible.
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.
Based on those results, I put the figure at 53.7%
Yeah. Voting always seems to tell us a number around there actually.
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
Now put a pillow over your head and shoot yourself in the face
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.)
Now, to be fair, looking into the results of a Republican primary and expecting to feel hopeful is like going to the barn animals exhibit at a county fair and expecting to smell something other than animal shit.
Back to the rekt center, Republicuck.
Good! His pillows are lumpy as hell.
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.
Yay
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”.
Mike has gone from snorting cocaine to snorting cocaine cut with baking soda to now snorting baking soda cut with Ajax cleaner. God speed lumpy pillow guy.
That’s not fair. He’s obviously much more of a compressed air huffer
