Lindell, a longtime 2020 election denier, previously said he would pay $825,000 to cover a full hand recount of his lost GOP gubernatorial primary in Minnesota.

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he’s refusing to accept his own election loss in the GOP primary for governor of Minnesota.

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Saturday rejected Lindell’s bid for a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth after she won the Republican primary by 45,000 votes.

Chief Justice Natalie E. Hudson wrote in a six-page ruling that the Minnesota secretary of state’s office and its State Canvassing Board provided a recount plan that follows the law and are “not committing any wrongful act, omission, or error” as Lindell claimed.

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      Part of the reason why the GOP keeps talking about election fraud is to raise money off of it. I’m sure he has been sending out emails to fund the recount since the polls closed. And if there is no recount? He gets to keep it to run for his next office, and tour the state (or country!) to campaign, all expenses paid.

      I’m convinced that all those Senators (including Joe) who kept running for office (and losing) all those years just did it to get a few free hotel stays and steak dinners.

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        Ted Cruz loaned money to his own campaign, then paid himself back that money with interest and the state courts said that was cool and totally legal

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        Prez raised the better part of a billion from his post election fraud fund. Going personally to him if I recall, it wasn’t even promised to be used for purpose, and wasn’t.

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        Literally get spam calls asking if Jeff is available…im not Jeff but one time I said “this is jeff”

        And it was like

        Jeff you are 1% of the 1% of republican maga donors and we need you to join our super elite platinum supporter pack can you donate $100 a month to stop the liberal socialist facism taking over our country

        Your country needs you, trump needs you, good bless America

        Like this really happened. They are sending Jeff an info packet of how to pay.