With almost all votes counted, Demuth was more than 45,000 votes ahead of Lindell, who had the backing of Donald Trump, beating him by 43.4% to 32.5%.

Businessman Kendall Qualls, backed by the Republican state party, was trailing in third.

Told by a reporter on his own streaming channel, LindellTV, that the AP had declared the race over, Lindell dismissed the wire service outright. Asked why he wouldn’t accept the call, he questioned the AP’s authority to determine the outcome and insisted hundreds of thousands of votes remained uncounted.

“I’m not going to give up this race until the votes are counted,” Lindell said. “That’s nonsense.”

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[–] 144 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Of course not. Denial of reality is pretty much his whole brand.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I think he was probably more sane when he was a drug addict.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Do we have reason to believe he isn't still a drug addict?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Definitely not on anything good.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    A rich dude who still chooses to huff gas and paint even though he could be smoking the best heroin, crack, or meth that exists.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's pathetic that this is the new normal for one of the major parties. Acting like deranged toddlers and leaning heavily on a bullshit reason whenever their fee-fees get hurt by the fact that most people don't want them in a position of power.

    Aside from your toxic, brain-damaged cult members, everyone fucking hates you Lindell!!! Grab a fucking clue and go back full time to making shit sleeping products!

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago

    So now the republicans are rigging their own elections??

    Okay pillow boy.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How could the God-Emperor abandon his most loyal servant, Mike Lindell, though?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    “The election was rigged!” LOL

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    It's not even that conspiratorial. It's even more stupid. It's "the GOP primary, organized and administered by my own GOP party, so that the GOP party can pick their candidate to run in the general election, is...rigged!!11!!1!1"

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    Cool. We don't need a concession. Just move on and ignore the loser.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago*

    LOL, you lost by over 11%. You aren't getting a recount or a second thought. 🤣

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    Someone buy this man a mypillow and get him to bed.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Of course he's not. We live in an attention economy and The Guardian is paying him.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    He needs time to prepare the fundraiser for his election fraud lawsuit.

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    STDs don't concede, they just keep coming back for more.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Mike Lindell, the lumpy pillow salesman....

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Y’know someday he's really gonna embarrass himself.

    lol jk

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Just let the poor guy make an ass out of himself, as it's the only thing he's good at, and the only thing he has left.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    That split is far too close.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Lindell built his political career on the claim that Trump’s 2020 defeat was the product of a rigged and stolen election, spending what he has said were tens of millions of dollars pursuing that conspiracy theory through lawsuits, documentaries and conferences, even as courts repeatedly threw it out.

    So, it's either lunacy or money laundering, isn't it?

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    cocaine is a helluva drug

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I mean, meth doesn’t concede, that’s the whole modus operandi of meth.

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