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Minnesota Supreme Court rejects Mike Lindell’s bid to recount GOP primary
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MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.
Key facts
- The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Lindell’s bid Saturday to order a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth after she won the Republican primary by 45,000 votes
- MyPillow founder Mike Lindell has long denied President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election
- In another defamation case, Lindell has refused to pay $56,369 in sanctions to voting machine company Smartmatic USA Corp
- Lindell was found to have defamed a former employee of one company, Dominion Voting Systems, in June 2025
Summary
The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Lindell’s bid Saturday to order a full recount of his Aug. 11 loss to state House Speaker Lisa Demuth after she won the Republican primary by 45,000 votes. Lindell told NBC News in a phone call Saturday evening that he plans to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lindell previously pledged to pay an estimated $825,000 to cover a full hand recount and audit of the race but refused to pay the money on Monday, which marked the state’s deadline, after finding out that the recount only included counting the ballots cast for either Lindell or Demuth. Lindell sued the Minnesota secretary of state’s office and its State Canvassing Board Monday, claiming that they pulled a “bait-and-switch” on him by not counting the ballots for everyone in the seven-candidate Republican field.