We had our caucuses this week, which started with an unfortunate announcement: Walz has stepped down and will not be running for governor. Who will run, who will win?
On the DFL side, it’s a cakewalk. Amy Klobuchar, our senator, is running for governor, and the party caucuses approved by giving her 79% of the vote. She’s OK, she won’t propose anything radical, even though we need radical right now. I feel like we’ve had an anointing of the status quo. I’ll vote for her, no question.
On the Republican side, we’re getting the crazy.
Republican house speaker Lisa Demuth actually won the caucus straw polls and is likely to be the leading candidate. Kendall Qualls came in second. Mike Lindell was in third place, but you know he’s going to be trotting around the state, speaking like the lunatic he is, and will draw lots of public attention and maybe get a Trump endorsement.
Lindell is not going to win. He’s not in this to win. He’s in it for the grift.
Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, spent more than half the money he raised for his campaign last year buying copies of his book, according to Minnesota Campaign Finance Board data released Tuesday.
That’s right. He’s taking in any donations and using it to buy copies of his book, which launders the money into his own pocket. What a deal.
At least it’s another reason Lindell doesn’t have a chance of winning.
I thought the MyPillow Klown had gone bankrupt after getting the shit sued outta him by the voting machine company?
Seems not..
But why the fuck not?
Will it be legal for you to vote in the Republican primaries?
In that case, please make the crazy guy the Republican candidate.
Also you really think there will be elections? Real ones? Now?
I hope you are right.
I doubt there will be.
he’s in it for the grift – not surprising- let us hope that the powers that be enforce campaign finance laws and lock him up!
he’s also a nutter, I think he actually believes a % of the shit he spouts (and he an idiot, to intellectually challenged to not realize just how false the part he thinks to be true isn’t – like the ‘data’ from the voting machines that he thinks proves manipulation – he doesn’t even know what he’s looking at and isn’t smart enough top hire someone who does…he’s a victim of grift, an enabler of grift and a dealer of grift…grift (like turtles) ‘all the way down’)
what’s bigger than a blue Tsunami? here’s hoping for epic surf in November
Lindell won’t be getting the Witch vote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-gathering-goes-off-the-rails-as-self-described-witch-casts-spell/ar-AA1VGIo7?
I went to check out Lisa Demuth’s website.
Not surprisingly, she wants us to be more car-dependent, not invest in our state, and seems to dislike trans kids. Screw her.
Mike Pillow is fundraising for
more cocainethe Truth™.I always figured that was standard practice for think-tankers and other pseudo-intellectuals in the orbit of the Republican Party. That’s why you see piles of their books at CPAC.
Trump and his cronies are certainly going to try to ensure that their power is not threatened by the results of the 2026 Midterm Elections. Their efforts will be clumsy and messy, but they will think they are being socially-responsible geniuses and prattle on about how wonderful they are. The Official Democratic Party response to the ‘anti-election’ efforts will likely be something hastily adopted because ‘the important decisionmakers’ have trouble thinking even a move ahead and their guiding ideology is ‘bland centrism that doesn’t offend people who won’t vote for us’. And a lot of people will be very very very vocal about how the ‘anti-election’ efforts are stupid, hypocritical, unconstitutional, wrong, and bullshit. But what the results of that kerfluffle will be is quite unclear.