BREAKING: Mike Lindell Refuses to Concede 11-Point Loss, Will Spend $1 Million on Recount He Won’t Win
Mike Lindell lost the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary by 11 points. He’s about to spend a million dollars pretending that’s not true.
The MyPillow founder and longtime Trump ally told NBC News he plans to fund a full hand recount of his August 11 loss to Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth. The Minnesota secretary of state’s office estimated the cost at roughly $825,000, and Lindell says his total will likely climb past $1 million once his own “investigative team” gets added in.
On election night, down by 20,000 votes with 277,000 left to count, Lindell refused to concede. “Would you give up if you got 277,000 left to count?” he asked. He lost by 11 points anyway. Now he’s tying the whole thing to his years-long crusade against electronic voting machines, writing in a press release that even if the recount doesn’t overturn the result, it’s a “gateway to getting rid of these electronic voting machines.”
This is the same Mike Lindell a federal judge ordered to pay Smartmatic $56,369 in sanctions back in January, plus an additional $500 a day for refusing to pay. His attorneys confirmed this week he still has no intention of paying that fine either.
An 11 point loss is not close. It is not contested. It is a landslide by primary standards. Spending seven figures to recount it isn’t persistence, it’s a man who has built his entire public identity around a conspiracy theory that has cost him money, credibility, and now an election, still refusing to read the room.