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Sky York Journal Now-failed Minnesota gubernatorial candidate and prolific 2020 election denier Mike Lindell lost his bid for Minnesota governor on Tuesday night to the state’s Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth, who received 44.7% of the vote. Predictably, however, Lindell now has some questions about the results of his primary loss, and what he claims could be “anomalies” in the results.  During an interview on Tuesday night on LindellTV, a reporter asked Lindell if he would concede if the AP called the race for Demuth.  “Why would I listen to AP?” he responded. “There’s 265,000 votes left to count. I’m…

Sky York Journal Pillow magnate and election denier Mike Lindell lost a high-stakes Minnesota GOP gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, despite receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump last month. He also lost the Minnesota Republican Party’s endorsement in the race in June to former health care executive and army veteran, Kendall Qualls. Despite the state Republican Party’s backing of another candidate, Lindell remained in the race, confident he would win the primary, and polls over the past week even indicated he had a shot. He told TPM in June that his focus was on “campaigning against Amy Klobuchar, and these…

Sky York Journal Facing little opposition, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI), an established election denier who voted against certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in two key states, is expected to easily secure the Republican nomination for governor in Wisconsin during Tuesday’s primary election. Tiffany is one of many election deniers on the ballot running as a Republican in the primaries this year. After receiving President Donald Trump’s endorsement earlier this year, he is expected to win the nomination in the Wisconsin primary.  “I endorsed Tom for Congress early and strong, and he won, BIG. Likewise, he has always been at…

Sky York Journal In the last 48 hours, President Donald Trump has revived two issues on which the Supreme Court ruled against him at the end of this term: restricting birthright citizenship and firing Federal Reserve governors. On Thursday, he issued two executive orders to limit the reach of the 14th Amendment’s promise that everyone born on American soil is conferred automatic citizenship. On its last day of the term, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s previous attempt to deny citizenship to the children of people illegally or temporarily in the United States. The categories of people Trump would exclude from…

Sky York Journal On top of the fact that the U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a deep dive into the jobs report published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday morning revealed some jobs statistics reached their worst levels in 10 years. But if you ask Kevin Hassett, White House chief economist and director of the National Economic Council, everything is awesome.  In addition to the July losses, the report also came with downward revisions for the two months prior; May payroll employment was revised down by 66,000 jobs and June saw a 37,000 downward revision, for a…

Sky York Journal Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) said he will support Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General in a Senate floor speech Friday morning, effectively guaranteeing Blanche’s confirmation.  “Mr. Blanche is not perfect, and he will tell you this,” Cassidy said. “But the choice is not between perfection and Mr. Blanche. It is between Mr. Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department effectively under President Trump and who indeed may not be as good as Mr. Blanche. This puts at risk the progress made fighting violent crime, human and drug trafficking and fraud, and this…

Sky York Journal Census Bureau officials last Sunday conceded that a new rule banning certain privacy protection methods will make it impossible for the agency to publish data that it has historically released, a development that could especially harm minority groups. Representatives of the bureau, however, denied that the policy change had political objectives, though experts and advocacy groups believe it does. Officials from the Census Bureau spoke publicly at a major statistical conference, answering questions about a policy shift first outlined in a June memo issued by the Commerce Department. The memo banned an umbrella of statistical privacy protection tools…

Sky York Journal Missouri Republicans have been transparent about their strategy to drag out the response to a challenge to their new 7-1 congressional map, with state Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) saying publicly during a radio interview earlier this year that “delay works in our favor.”  Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) proclaimed a petition voters brought to trigger a statewide veto vote on the new map “insufficient” Tuesday, claiming that it is unconstitutional to challenge gerrymanders under the referendum process. People Not Politicians, the group that organized the petition and sent in “over three times” the number of…

Sky York Journal The group behind an effort to force a statewide vote on Missouri Republicans’ 7-1 gerrymander filed a new lawsuit Tuesday night challenging the Secretary of State’s finding earlier in the day that its petition is “insufficient.”  Missouri law lets voters block legislation if they gather enough signatures on a petition and win a subsequent statewide vote. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R), who dragged the certification process out as long as legally possible — until Missouri’s primary day Tuesday — said that the petition was insufficient not because of the number of signatures turned in, but because,…

Sky York Journal President Donald Trump went off on a long, strange tangent where repeatedly expressed revulsion at the state of “blue cities” during an event in the Oval Office on Monday afternoon. “What do they have in common? They’re all dirty. They’re filthy, dirty,” Trump said, adding, “Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty.” Trump went on to specify that he didn’t “want to mention any specific city.” “It’s really all of them,” he said.  Trump’s attack on the homes of a large segment…