“For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit mypillow.com” is a jingle that punctuates every hour of Fox News viewing. Now “MyPillow guy” Mike Lindell is changing his tune: for the best governor of Minnesota in the whole wide world, vote Mike Lindell 2026.
Lindell is a Trump ally, businessman and election conspiracy theorist. He’s known for his rags-to-riches origin story, rising from a crack cocaine addiction to achieving sobriety and turning to religion. He founded My Pillow in Minnesota in 2004.
For readers unfamiliar with Lindell’s political history: before his run for governor, Lindell was sued by a voting machine company, then known as Dominion Voting Systems, for defamation pertaining to false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. On July 1, the company, now called Liberty Vote, ended its billion-dollar lawsuit in a confidential settlement. He was also sued by other voting companies, such as Smartmatic.
Lindell is also known for starting the fringe media network LindellTV, his Twitter ban as a result of false 2020 election claims, his promotion of oleandrin (an unproven therapeutic treatment for Covid-19), his alleged involvement in January 6 and his rumored relationship with 30 Rock’s Jane Krakowski, which ended in a dismissed lawsuit. He was also once interviewed inside a claw machine on Jimmy Kimmel. To Cockburn, none of this screams, “elect me, swing-state voters!”
