Mike Lindell Quits Mypillow So He Can Focus On His Run For Minnesota Governor

Mike Lindell has stepped down arsenic CEO of his bedding company, MyPillow, to attraction connected his tally for Minnesota governor.

“Today, I’ve made 1 of nan biggest decisions of my life. I'm stepping down arsenic CEO of MyPillow truthful I tin give 100% of my clip and power to my run for Governor of Minnesota,” Lindell, who founded nan institution successful 2004, wrote connected X Tuesday.

“Minnesota deserves my afloat attention, and that's precisely what I'm giving it. I'm each in, and I can't hold to gain your vote,” he added.

Lindell, a Minnesota native, announced precocious past twelvemonth that he would participate nan gubernatorial race. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump gave Lindell his endorsement, calling him “one of America’s top and astir difficult moving Patriots.”

At an arena for Minnesota’s farmers, Lindell name-dropped Trump, telling nan assemblage of his opponents, “ I person an advantage complete everyone up here. I tin telephone up and activity pinch nan president of nan United States.”

With Lindell gone, Jim Furlong, who served arsenic nan company’s president from 2004 to 2019, will return arsenic CEO.

“Real activity intends knowing erstwhile to lead, erstwhile to spot your team, and erstwhile to put a larger calling first,” Lindell said successful a property release. “I spot Jim and nan Board to protect our employees, our customers, and our Minnesota roots.”

The institution has promised that nary Minnesota jobs will beryllium affected by nan alteration successful leadership.

Aside from his MyPillow product, Lindell is known for spreading baseless conspiracy theories astir nan 2020 statesmanlike election.

In September 2025, a national judge successful Minnesota ruled that Lindell defamed predetermination exertion patient Smartmatic by falsely claiming its voting machines helped rig nan election.

Last month, it was reported that Lindell settled a $1.3 cardinal defamation suit that different predetermination tech institution formerly known arsenic Dominion Voting Systems revenge against him successful 2021 over his 2020 conspiracy theories.

In his Truth Social station announcing his support for Lindell, Trump, who continues to baselessly declare that erstwhile President Joe Biden stole nan 2020 predetermination from him, wrote, “Nobody has sacrificed much than Mike Lindell successful fighting for our country, particularly erstwhile it comes to Election Integrity.”

Minnesota’s Republican and Democratic superior elections for politician will return spot Tuesday.

Lindell is starring his Republican opponents by 9 points successful a caller KSTP/SurveyUSA poll. The MyPillow laminitis has 35 percent support from apt Republican superior voters, while Minnesota authorities Representative Lisa Demuth has 26 percent and businessman Kendall Qualls has 11 percent.

The biggest sanction successful nan Democratic superior is US Senator Amy Klobuchar.

Current Minnesota Governor Tim Walz abruptly announced successful January that he would not activity re-election amid scrutiny of his handling of use fraud successful nan state.

In his connection announcing that he would nary longer activity a 3rd term, Walz defended his activity to root retired fraud: “We’ve gone to nan legislature clip and again to get much devices to combat fraud. We’ve fired group who weren’t doing their jobs. We’ve seen group spell to jailhouse for stealing from our state.”