House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the Republican Party’s nomination for governor on Tuesday, beating President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate, Mike Lindell, as well as Kendall Qualls — the choice of GOP state convention delegates. Demuth is the first Republican woman to be nominated for governor and the rare Republican to beat a Trump-endorsed candidate this […]
(The Center Square) – Voters in Minnesota will head to the polls Tuesday to select nominees for governor.
Minnesota voters on Tuesday will head to the polls to choose which candidates advance to the important November midterm election. On the ballot: all constitutional offices, including governor and attorney general; an open U.S. Senate seat; the highly competitive 2nd Congressional District; and all 201 legislative seats. Tuesday’s election will determine which candidates from each […]
Pillow mogul and 2020 election conspiracy buff Mike Lindell, whose campaign for governor was recently endorsed by President Donald Trump, released a 72-page plan Thursday to eliminate the state income tax, which would necessitate cutting the state general fund budget in half. Lindell is running in the Republican primary against Army veteran and retired healthcare […]
Minnesota’s candidates for governor fielded questions on farming regulations, rising rural healthcare costs and fraud in Minnesota’s public programs Wednesday as they made their case to farmers. It was the first and last time U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the presumptive Democratic-Farmer-Labor nominee for governor, got on stage with the three GOP candidates for governor: businessman […]
Nearly 100 Monticello residents, decked out in red shirts, crowded into City Council chambers in February — nearly doubling the average attendance — holding signs protesting future data center development. The meeting stretched for nearly three hours, as residents interrupted debate between council members, calling for a moratorium on data centers. It’s a familiar scene […]
Republican primary voters who want to know how pillow mogul Mike Lindell is spending his campaign dollars won’t have much to go on based on the final pre-primary campaign finance report, which was released Tuesday by the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board. The campaign’s last reported expense for the MyPillow CEO’s campaign was on June 30 […]
Mike Lindell — MyPillow CEO, the Trump-backed 2026 gubernatorial candidate, 2020 election denier and former cocaine addict — has earned many titles in the pages of the Minnesota Reformer over the past six years. He’s by turns insulted, praised, cajoled, shouted at and laughed with Reformer reporters over the years. No matter how many damaging scoops the […]
In another surprising twist in the race for the Republican nomination for governor, Mike Lindell released an 18-page, five-pronged plan to reform the federal immigration system by creating a path to temporary legal residency for working immigrants. In an interview with Washington Examiner, Lindell, the Trump-endorsed pillow mogul, said he believes in second chances for […]
(The Center Square) – Following a chaotic Republican state convention, two prominent Republican candidates have decided to run in Minnesota’s gubernatorial primary despite not receiving the party’s endorsement.
