President Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor, praising him as “certainly one of America’s biggest and most exhausting working Patriots” and giving formal backing to a fellow election denier a day earlier than the Republican president delivers a nationwide tackle he says will deal with election safety.
Lindell established his nationwide profile from his TV promoting marketing campaign because the MyPillow Man and has been certainly one of Trump’s most outspoken supporters, echoing the president’s false claims that his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden was fraudulent.
“Mike can be SPECTACULAR!!! He actually loves Minnesota, as do I, and desires to convey it again from oblivion and embarrassment. He can do it!” Trump posted Wednesday on his Reality Social platform, referring to Lindell as “the ‘Pillow Man.’”
Trump has hammered outgoing Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 vice presidential nominee, as incompetent and accused his administration of permitting rampant fraud in federal spending on childcare. Trump has employed racist rhetoric to target Minnesota’s Somali immigrant population as driving the alleged fraud. Walz disputes the Trump administration’s characterizations.
