{"id":77628,"date":"2026-08-19T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/mike-lindell-offers-to-fund-recount-in-minnesota-republican-primary-for-governor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:55:41","slug":"mike-lindell-offers-to-fund-recount-in-minnesota-republican-primary-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/mike-lindell-offers-to-fund-recount-in-minnesota-republican-primary-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Lindell offers to fund recount in Minnesota Republican primary for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyPillow founder and Trump ally lost primary to Lisa Demuth by 11 points, but still refuses to concede defeat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/19\/mary-peltola-dan-sullivan-alaska-primary-election-us-senate-florida-california-wyoming--donald-trump-us-politics-latest\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The pillow salesman, Trump supporter and election denier Mike Lindell has offered to personally fund a recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in Minnesota\u2019s Republican gubernatorial primary, which he lost last week.<\/p>\n<p>Lindell\u2019s announcement on Wednesday escalates his bid to challenge the results of last week\u2019s vote, after finishing a distant second to the Minnesota house speaker, Lisa Demuth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/19\/mike-lindell-recount-minnesota-primary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MyPillow founder and Trump ally lost primary to Lisa Demuth by 11 points, but still refuses to concede defeat US politics live \u2013 latest updates The pillow salesman, Trump supporter and election denier Mike Lindell has offered to personally fund a recount and audit of every paper ballot cast in Minnesota\u2019s Republican gubernatorial primary, which &#8230; <a title=\"Mike Lindell offers to fund recount in Minnesota Republican primary for governor\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/mike-lindell-offers-to-fund-recount-in-minnesota-republican-primary-for-governor\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mike Lindell offers to fund recount in Minnesota Republican primary for governor\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}