MIKE LINDELL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF MY PILLOW INC., SPEAKS TO MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA WHILE ARRIVING TO FEDERAL COURT IN WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S., ON THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2021.(SAMUEL CORUM / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES)
Mike Lindell told VICE News he'll admit defeat if he loses on Friday, making it the first time in a while he's accepted an election result.
Mike Lindell is running for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. But no one involved in the RNC, which is gathering for its winter meetings in California this week, seems to know why—or who’s backing him.
Lindell, a close ally of former President Donald Trump and a lead booster of Trump’s 2020 election lies, is one of three candidates vying for the chairmanship. The MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist has been publicly endorsed by exactly one of the committee’s 168 voting members. And many of the RNC’s voting members are rolling their eyes at his quixotic bid to take over the party and force it to put his obsession with supposed election fraud front-and-center, just months after candidates he backed cost them winnable races across the country.
Iowa Republican Party Chairman Jeff Kaufmann told VICE News that Lindell was running a “pseudo-campaign” that didn’t amount to more than some cookie-cutter form emails from fringe activists.
He said that illustrated how bad a job Lindell would do as RNC chairman if he won at the core part of the job: winning elections.
“His candidacy for the RNC shows he...
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