ORLANDO, Fla. — Mike Lindell, the MyPillow inventor and fervent Donald Trump backer, is taking his talents to South Beach.
Lindell, the most prominent election conspiracy theorist this side of Mar-a-Lago, has paid tens of millions of dollars to conduct baseless investigations of Democratic voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election that Trump lost. Now, he’s got Gov. Ron DeSantis’ reelection victory in his sights.
The Washington Post reported that Lindell said he wants to investigate DeSantis’s 11-point win in Miami-Dade County in last month’s election, calling it the kind of “deviation” from the norm he’s been fruitlessly looking into in Arizona and other states.
“A Republican hasn’t won Dade County like DeSantis did,” Lindell told The Bulwark, saying he wanted to know “if there (were) problems with the election, things with the machine or whatever.”
Lindell is making the move just as DeSantis is widely expected to challenge Trump for the 2024 GOP nomination for president.
His quixotic quest to find fraud in the 2020 election has found no real evidence of any wrongdoing, and Florida is not likely to be any different.
While DeSantis’ win was unprecedented in recent years, Miami-Dade has been trending Republican for a while.
The Post noted that Lindell did not question Trump’s stronger showing in Miami-Dade in 2020, where he improved on his 2016 numbers by 22 points.
The governor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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