Up until now, the Minnesota gubernatorial contest has mostly been about a large number of credible but hardly household-name Republican pols elbowing each other for the opportunity to face incumbent Tim Walz. Now, suddenly, Kamala Harris’s running mate is probably the second most famous candidate in the field, as Donald Trump’s favorite bonkers conspiracy theorist and product huckster, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, has announced a campaign.
Presumably Lindell very badly wants to ban voting machines in Minnesota, since claims of rigged machines have been his distinctive contribution to the fantasy-world of MAGA election denial activism. But according to the New York Times , the frenetic pillow salesman has a broader right-wing platform :
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