Trump-Endorsed ‘MyPillow Guy’ Mike Lindell Loses Minnesota Governor Primary
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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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.
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.
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.
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
The numbers:
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.
Earlier there had been worries of Minnesota going purple, but I suspect ICE really hindered that
Yeah. Voting always seems to tell us a number around there actually.
that's actually an alarming number of votes... (for the pillow guy)
How long until he whines that it's RIGGED and that he'll "investigate" it
He already did
Are the "cyber ninjas" on the case?
Lmfao I forgot about that one. Jeez
So much insanity on the daily, but I think I remember that one because of a meme someone made that had Cyber Ninjas mashed up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, LOL.
Cyber police are on the way, because he done goofed.
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…
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)
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.
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.
Back to the crack you go lindell
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.
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.
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.
First of all, he doesn't have any money, he's broke as shit. He's lost lawsuits, and destroyed his company's brand image. He had a great thing going until he went MAGA Crazy.
Secondly, he's from Minnesota, and only moved to Texas after Minnesota became enemy territory. Now he's trying to have it both ways.
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.
Good! His pillows are lumpy as hell.
Why is every MAGA person just a grifter who smells their own farts for fun?
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'.
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.
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 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.)
Back to the rekt center, Republicuck.
The guy literally looks like he ate Tweety Bird and is holding him captive in his mouth.
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
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".
It's a simple concept, just vote for anyone that isn't associated with Trump.
Yay
shocking.
ok, no it's not...
So the crackhead conspiracy theorist who was endorsed by the Pedo-in-Chief lost? How could this have happened?
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.
I thought he was "undercover" at the democratic convention
Thank. Fuck.
He reminds me of Charlie's weird uncle from Always Sunny.
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.
lol
This nazi is still around? What the fuck. I thought his pillows at the 14.88 USD price point would have sealed the deal.
Here's my old comment where I uploaded screenshots as those prices were live: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22420855/13240856
And a second one where I looked through more of their price history: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22420855/13240839
Damn shame. That would have been the funniest race of 2026, bar none.
...good
Lmao
I wish this punchable douche would’ve won, it would’ve ensured Klobuchar’s win.
Awwww.
I was really hoping he would win. It would be hilarious.
That's what a lot of people from center to left thought about Trump in 2016.
It helped put a lens on what both political parties are. One is fascist while the other is corporatist.
The Democratic Party almost nothing to make sure that fascism couldn’t take over America. Fascism came back knowing full well that there will be zero negative consequences.
The Democratic Party did nothing to stop a genocide. They helped the genocidal maniacs. They tell us that our eyes are lying.
America cannot be great until the Democrats become FDRs party instead the controlled opposition that they currently are.
When America plays with their politics and votes like it's a game instead of serious life decision... like when UK vote to rename a vessel... "Boaty McBoatface" just because it'd be funny...
I knew someone who voted for Bob Dole in the 1996 general election for no other reason than wanting more of Norm McDonald's impression of him on SNL.