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

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[–] 80 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This guy blew it all and got NOTHING back at any single point lol. It’s incredible.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Dude went from a homeless addict to a millionaire and decided to throw it all away for Trump. Incredible.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How the hell was he even in business in the first place. I refuse to believe the entire pillow thing wasn't just a massive money laundering scheme.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    As I understand it he was basically a first mover in the whole recycled memory foam pillow industry, now it's borderline the standard so it made his whole business model irrelevant. It's just another example of a rich asshole getting there due to one good idea rather than any actual business accumen.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    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

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  • [–] 61 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Right around 32% of americans are truly disconnected from reality and fucked in the head.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago

    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.

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    [–] 29 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    How long until he whines that it's RIGGED and that he'll "investigate" it

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 25 points 1 month ago

    Back to the crack you go lindell

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    Why is every MAGA person just a grifter who smells their own farts for fun?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    Good! His pillows are lumpy as hell.

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    haha Republicans are such morons. They voted for a health care industry executive as their "standard bearer" because of course they did. Not that this shitbird would have been better, just sayin'.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Same thing happened in GA. Trump just moved on and endorsed the one that beat his pick.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Now put a pillow over your head and shoot yourself in the face

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Oh my god theres no fucking way this guy is running for office. At least everyone will get a free pillow right? … right?!?

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Back to the rekt center, Republicuck.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The guy literally looks like he ate Tweety Bird and is holding him captive in his mouth.

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    [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Just a quick reminder that nobody ever has to concede. They win or lose and that's that. In case anyone was worried.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    It's a simple concept, just vote for anyone that isn't associated with Trump.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    shocking.

    ok, no it's not...

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    So the crackhead conspiracy theorist who was endorsed by the Pedo-in-Chief lost? How could this have happened?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ever see the video of him at some MAGA conference, and some 12 year old YouTuber asks him for a source that the 2020 election was stolen, and My Pillow Guy starts spewing conspiracy after conspiracy, with the kid asking for a source, until he finally says "So your source is just Trust Me, Bro?"

    Watching him get owned by a 10 year old was beautiful.

    Found it, more or less.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    In a parallel universe, Billy Mayes is here as the hypeman for Bernie Sanders, and following Bernie's 2 terms, he went on to become governor of Pennsylvania.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Thank. Fuck.

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