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Marina Dunbar

Mike Lindell offers to fund recount in Minnesota Republican primary for governor

A man with a mustache in a suit softly smiles
Mike Lindell at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, on 27 March 2026. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The pillow salesman, Donald Trump supporter and election denier Mike Lindell has offered to personally fund a recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in Minnesota’s Republican gubernatorial primary, which he lost last week.

Lindell’s announcement on Wednesday escalates his bid to challenge the results of last week’s vote, after finishing a distant second to the Minnesota house speaker, Lisa Demuth.

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