Mike Lindell, MyPillow CEO and one of the loudest voices in the election-denial movement, is running for governor of Minnesota, announcing the bid Thursday from the floor of his factory.

“I want you to know that I will stand for you as the next governor of Minnesota,” he said. Lindell also vowed to take on “rampant fraud under Gov. [Tim] Walz,” rising crime, and what he called suffocating regulation.

Lindell’s entry adds yet another contender to an already swollen GOP primary, and it drops a nationally polarizing figure into a state that leans blue—even as it hasn’t been immune to Trump-era politics.

Lindell isn’t just a businessman with strong views, but he was also one of the most visible faces of the effort to overturn the 2020 election. He bankrolled bus tours and right-wing rallies

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