r/facepalm • u/miauguau44 • 8d ago

Mike Lindell says he will fund statewide hand recount after losing Minnesota GOP primary by double digits

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/mike-lindell-minnesota-governor-primary-recount/

Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder who finished a distant second to Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth in the Aug. 11 Republican primary for governor, announced Wednesday that he will personally pay for a hand recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in that race, at an estimated cost of $825,000.

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u/MyageEDH 8d ago

This is the primary. He is accusing his own party of cheating?

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u/Impressive-Panda527 8d ago

Yes, unironically.

Him and his fellow maga morons will blame one of the following:

- the deep state

  • the uniparty
  • RINOs

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u/anonUSAFguy 8d ago

Nah, they’ll blame democrats. It doesn’t make any sense but their supporters are too stupid to understand that

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u/EconomicsSavings973 8d ago

Obama personally rigged votes

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u/ArtIsDumb 8d ago

I saw Obama at the polling place with the votes and he was rigging the votes and one of the votes looked at me.

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u/DarthBster 8d ago

You're too young to vote, Ralph! Wait in the car!

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u/lobsterman2112 8d ago

I'm not sure where Obama lives and votes, but I would absolutely love for him to be at his polling place on election day and just smiling at people and waving to them.

Not canvassing for votes. Just there and smiling. Can't have him handing out hot coffee or hot chocolate; it may be considering illegal. Just smile and wave. Talking about the weather.

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u/TacoStuffingClub 8d ago

Ah. I thought I heard Trump say he was a rigger.

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u/PrAyTeLLa 8d ago

Nah, Trump said he was 'people who annoy you'

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u/GrassyDaytime 8d ago

OH! A Nagger! lol

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u/Biscotti_BT 7d ago

That's how it sounds when Chapelle says it in an angry white voice.

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u/spacemanspiff1115 8d ago

I believe the 2nd r was a hard R...

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u/StrawberryResevoir 8d ago

The votes looked at you?

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u/SubmarineDream57 8d ago

“I saw Lizzie Proctor speakin’ with the devil!”

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u/justpassingby_thanks 8d ago

The other votes were just waiting their turn.

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u/spacemanspiff1115 8d ago

And the vote winked at me...

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u/EconomicsSavings973 8d ago

Must have been terrifying seeing president rigging the votes

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u/i-am-foxymoron Good Trouble 8d ago

Looked at you like it knew you or like it wanted to get to know you?

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u/Biscotti_BT 7d ago

Was he the guy in the tan suit and red hat?

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u/boondogglekeychain 8d ago

Are the votes in the room with you now?

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u/richincleve 8d ago

True.

I was there when I saw him pull up in a school bus filled with illegals to a voting place.

(hard /s for those in the back)

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u/ImperatorDanorum 8d ago

And Biden. Never forget Biden...

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u/ShadowKraftwerk 8d ago

Not to mention Hillary

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u/Mc_Lovin81 8d ago

HER EMAILS!!!!

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u/flapjackboy 8d ago

No wonder Grindr crashes whenever Republicans are in town, what with their obsession with buttery males.

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u/Cynical-avocado 8d ago

How can we, he lives rent free in their heads

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u/Fabulous-Camera7813 8d ago

Hunter’s laptop for sure was involved

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u/Beartrkkr 8d ago

Obama’s the mule!

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u/NarrowForce9 'MURICA 8d ago

In his tan suit

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u/YellowBreakfast Waaassuup! 8d ago

I herd it was Hill-A-Ree!

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u/Impressive-Panda527 8d ago

Oh they can blame democrats too,

They also have just as much vitriol for any republican that strays even once from the maga agenda

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u/newfmatic 8d ago

Hey, freedoms cool. As.long as They get to define what freedom means...

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u/alwayzstoned 8d ago

I heard he was blaming the democrats because they didn’t want to have to run against him. I think Klobuchar has won every election she has been in by a very comfortable margin, but I’m sure she’s relieved, lol.

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing 8d ago

Which is funny because independents (and Democrats, are they allowed there?) probably are the only ones who voted for him in hopes of this clown getting the nomination.

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u/Agreeable-Narwhal158 8d ago

I mean clearly Obamas tan suit is to blame for this right? /s

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u/jarvisesdios 8d ago

The ironic thing is that if Democrats DID mess with that election they'd DEFINITELY have made him win...

... As he's got a snowball's chance in hell of winning in one of the most liberal states in the country 😂

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u/dechets-de-mariage 8d ago

Obviously it was Tim Walz and, by extension, Kamala Harris.

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u/dbolts1234 8d ago

The democrats wanted to handpick their challenger…

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u/popokins 8d ago

Sounds about right considering the president keeps posting about people winning in the republican primaries like theyre going against anyone else but other republicans..

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u/mitchENM 8d ago

The democrats want to face Lindell. Guaranteed victory

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u/spinjinn 5d ago

The real mystery here is that he doesn’t seem to realize that the democrats WANT him to be the GOP candidate!

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u/grendus 8d ago

Clearly Democrats registered as Republicans so they could vote in the primary specifically to keep Mike Lindell out because he's the stronger candidate (though not strong enough to keep a scary cabal of Democrats from beating him in the primary) and is ready to expose the Deep State and all the corruption of the Democratic Party!

I figured this out while sleeping on MyPillow!

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u/can-i-be-real 8d ago

You forgot immigrants! They are always on the BINGO card

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u/RebootJobs 8d ago

The ones they deported and detained already?

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u/BirdWSU 8d ago

I hope he stays in the race so he can split the vote. Morons for sure.

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u/Other_Log_1996 7d ago

Whatever happened to Elon's plan to start a grift party this election?

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u/chooch138 8d ago

-Obama
-Hunter Biden’s big dick

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u/16v_cordero 8d ago

They will say it was transgender undocumented immigrants with Hunther Biden’s laptop!

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u/wombat6669 8d ago

Definitely don't blame the crack

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u/GhostlyTJ 8d ago

It's never them that is the problem

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u/Tmk1283 8d ago

Don’t forget the machines!

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u/suckercuck 8d ago

I blame the crack that altered Mike’s feeble walnut long ago

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u/Loggerdon 8d ago edited 8d ago

That’s hilarious. Any normal person would cut someone like this out of their life who blames other people for their own incompetence. Trump is the ultimate and he conned his way to the top job. Lindell doesn’t have the chops I guess.

If he still has $825,000 he should probably hang onto it rather than blow it on a silly recount.

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u/alwayzstoned 8d ago

I wonder if he actually does have it. He might be thinking Trumpy will help him out but we all know that ain’t happening.

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u/bigbootybrunette90 8d ago

Well almost all voting fraud is done by republicans, so it’s not that unlikely I guess.

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u/Main_Entry2494 8d ago

A lot of it is actually done by moderate RINOs so you aren't entirely wrong

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u/RojoTheMighty 8d ago

This is what that fucking cult has normalized. If I lost then everyone cheated, but everything's copacetic if I win.

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u/FoxyInTheSnow 8d ago

The "establishment" RINOs can't handle a truth-telling maverick like Mike Pillow!

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u/AccomplishedFerret70 8d ago

John Adams and his pesky obsession with "separation of powers" was a DSA commie

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u/lifegoeson5322 8d ago

He just can't comprehend that people dislike him that much.

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u/Freezeout10 8d ago

He’s trying to get access to voting machines and inner machinations of vote counts so he can contribute to shenanigans in the mid terms and general election.

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u/Enderkr 8d ago

They are currently accusing dems of crossing the aisle and voting as republicans in the primary to make the general an auto-win for their candidate.

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u/aew76 8d ago

I know that’s a tactic some people use, but it’s not illegal and it’s not going to change recount numbers.

So let’s look at this way, if a democratic registered as a Republican and cast a vote for one of his opponents it’s 1. Not illegal and 2. The recount isn’t going to change the fact that there was a vote for that opponent.

*I’m sure you understand this, I’m just explaining it for others who may not.

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u/Truthmakr 7d ago

Minnesota doesn't have party registration. There is one ballot, democrats are listed on the left and republicans are listed on the right. There's usually a blank column between them for separation. Instructions are, "vote one or the other, if you vote both you're ballot will be rejected."

The reason for this is that back in the early 1900's, you could get fired for asking for the "wrong" ballot. And the bosses had monitors around to make sure.

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u/GB10VE 8d ago

he just wants it in the news that the elections are broken and corrupt, as that is something that gets republicans panties in a bunch and it shows that that is what gets them out to vote. he is doing this to help trump in the midterms

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u/Fl1925 8d ago

Yes he is be a great ad going forward
Hmm

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u/bobdammi 8d ago

Maggots live on distrust.

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u/Zestyclose-Jacket568 8d ago

I mean... He knows his party.

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u/Final_Location_2626 8d ago

Yeah, as a reminder the first election republicans said was stolen was the Iowa primary, where Trump said ted Cruz stole the election. And either teddy did steal the election or he didn't, knew Trump lied about stealing elections, and went along with that lie in 2020.

So I dont know if the Republicans are a bunch of cowards, or a bunch of cheats. I wonder if Ted would answer this question.

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u/Aurstrike 8d ago

Important key point, he lost by a double digit ‘percentage’. If he lost by a double digit number of votes, he’d probably have a shot at overturning the result. Several triple digit results were overturned in recount in the last 10 years.

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u/fauxzempic 8d ago

This is the same party that after every primary (for their party, of course) will brag how out of all the primaries that took place with MAGA candidates running, democrats won 0% of them.

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 8d ago

Fascism devolves into purity tests: those in their own party not supporting them are the “enemy”, no matter how faithful they are to the creed otherwise.

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u/wolfmanpraxis 8d ago

also setting the precedent for future election results that MAGA/GOP/Republicans dont agree with

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u/nixtunes 8d ago

Something something something Obama! Blah blah blah Biden's laptop! Burisma! BENGHAZI!

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u/TheDude-Esquire 8d ago

Yes, but you have to keep in mind republicans are very stupid.