MyPillow CEO and founder Mike Lindell is refusing to concede Minnesotas Republican gubernatorial primary, insisting the vote tally is suspect and demanding closer scrutiny of the count.
According to Just The News, Lindell told supporters Tuesday evening that he was trailing by 20,000 votes with 277,000 ballots still outstanding, describing them as all mail-in and early votes for Lisa Demuth. He further asserted that there are anomalies in the count, adding that his team would be examining the numbers overnight, as reported by Kirsten Swanson of KSTP-TV in St. Paul in a post on X.
The Associated Press nevertheless called the race for Demuth at 11:27 p.m., when she held 45.1% of the vote to Lindells 31.0%, with 69% of precincts reporting. Nearly every poll before Election Day had shown Lindell leading, but only by single digits, suggesting a late surge for Demuth or a sharp divergence between polling and early/mail-in returns.
Unless Lindell manages to overturn the result through legal or procedural challenges, Demuth will advance to face Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who encountered no serious primary opposition. That matchup would pit a more establishment Republican against a deeply entrenched Democrat in a state where conservatives have long argued that expanded mail-in voting and lax safeguards favor the left.
Lindell has consistently maintained that the 2020 election was rigged against President Donald Trump, who endorsed him in the Minnesota governors race and remains a central figure in Lindells political message. He was found liable for defamation against former Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer, who Lindell, Trump, and others claimed rigged the election for Joe Biden, and was ordered to pay Coomer $2.3 million, a judgment critics now use to dismiss his latest allegations even as many conservatives continue to question the integrity of mass mail-in voting.
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