{"id":20313,"date":"2026-05-30T21:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/mike-lindell-the-my-pillow-guy-election-conspiracist-loses-gop-endorsement-in-minnesota-governors-race-democracy-docket\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T21:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T21:01:39","slug":"mike-lindell-the-my-pillow-guy-election-conspiracist-loses-gop-endorsement-in-minnesota-governors-race-democracy-docket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/mike-lindell-the-my-pillow-guy-election-conspiracist-loses-gop-endorsement-in-minnesota-governors-race-democracy-docket\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lindell, the My Pillow Guy election conspiracist, loses GOP endorsement in Minnesota governor\u2019s race – Democracy Docket"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Brentin Mock<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\tcast ballots<\/a> for the party\u2019s official endorsements, Lindell came in third place among gubernatorial candidates, which removed him from eligibility for the endorsement.\u00a0
This means that Lindell \u2013 a politician notorious for conspiring<\/a> with Trump to stir 2020 election conspiracies \u2013 won\u2019t be on the ticket as the state\u2019s GOP-picked runner. He can continue campaigning to win the August primary, but it will be without the full support of the Minnesota Republican Party.
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Speaking at the convention, where he was reportedly booed<\/a>, Lindell said that he intended to continue his run without the endorsement.\u00a0
BREAKING: Results from the fourth ballot of the Minnesota Republican Party's endorsement for governor.<\/p>\n

1. Lisa Demuth: 42.4% (807 votes)
2. Kendall Qualls: 35.8% (681 votes)
3. Mike Lindell: 21.4% (408 votes)<\/p>\n

For this ballot, the candidate with the lowest amount of votes is\u2026
In December, Trump said<\/a> that Lindell \u201cdeserves to be governor\u201d after the My Pillow CEO officially launched his campaign that month. Well before then Lindell had been known for peddling myths about how the 2020 election was rigged against Trump and how electronic voting machines were hacked to help Biden win.\u00a0
Last June, he was ordered<\/a> to pay $2.3 million to Dominion Voting Systems for spreading libelous claims about how foreign countries used the company\u2019s voting machines to overthrow the 2020 election.\u00a0
Still Lindell has continued pushing the falsehoods saying in an interview<\/a> last July, \u201cOne of the things [Trump] and I are aligned perfectly on is he wants to get back to paper ballots, hand-counted, same day voting, precinct level, voter ID.\u201d
He also helped finance a conspiracist group\u2019s widely-panned audit of Maricopa County, Arizona\u2019s 2020 results that ended up becoming the basis<\/a> for the FBI\u2019s probe into the county\u2019s elections office earlier this year.\u00a0
He is also a close ally<\/a> of Tina Peters, the imprisoned former Colorado election clerk whose nine-year sentence was recently commuted<\/a> for her role in breaching the state\u2019s voting system in a failed plot to reveal voter fraud. Lindell rallied heavily with Trump to free Peters since she was imprisoned in 2024.\u00a0
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By Brentin Mock May 30, 2026 Mike Lindell, the My Pillow Guy who\u2019s long worked feverishly to throw the 2020 election to Donald Trump, may be out of the running for the GOP nomination in the Minnesota governor\u2019s race.\u00a0At the Republican Party\u2019s state convention this weekend, where members cast ballots for the party\u2019s official endorsements, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}