{"id":80382,"date":"2025-12-03T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80382\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:47:13","slug":"mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-files-paperwork-to-run-for-governor-of-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/80382\/","title":{"rendered":"MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell files paperwork to run for governor of Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/ceo-of-my-pillow-mike-lindell-lawyers-fined-for-using-ai-court-documents-denver-intelligence-eric-coomer-dominion-voting-system-generative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell<\/a> filed paperwork to run for governor Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>He has created a campaign committee in order to raise money, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-files-paperwork-to-run-for-minnesota-governor\/601538693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the Minnesota Star Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would officially announce if he was running or not on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced earlier this year that Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz will run for a third term for governor.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from being the CEO of MyPillow, Lindell is also the owner of <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/jury-finds-mike-lindell-defamed-a-former-dominion-voting-system-employee-eric-coomer-my-pillow-damages-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mike Lindell Media Corp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other GOP candidates running for governor in Minnesota are Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, attorney Chris Madel and state Rep. Kristin Robbins.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Lindell told the Minnesota Star Tribune that he has the best shot at winning out of all the GOP candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there was someone to win, it would be me,\u201d he told the news outlet in October.<\/p>\n<p>Lindell has had some controversies over the last few years. In July, a jury found him guilty of defaming a former employee of a leading voting equipment company, Dominion Voting Systems.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>He was ordered to pay the employee, Eric Coomer, $2.3 million in damages. Coomer originally asked for $62.7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell filed paperwork to run for governor Minnesota. He has created a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-80382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}