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Mike Lindell | Candidate for Governor of Minnesota Speaks on His Campaign on Primary Election Day · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: I saw Mike a couple of weeks ago in Bedminster,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, when President Trump came out Big night, big
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  Speaker 1: party and talked up Mike Lindell and actually said Alo
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  Speaker 1: to me in the crowd. But Trump loves Lindell, so
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  Speaker 1: do I. He's a great story. He was on the
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  Speaker 1: show quite a bit years ago when his book came out,
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  Speaker 1: and much like myself, he's had very public battles with
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  Speaker 1: drugs and alcohol and he's come all the way home.
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  Speaker 1: And today is a primary in Minnesota. I just hung
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  Speaker 1: up with Byron Donalds his primary in the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 1: He's running for governor a week from today. Mike Lindell's
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  Speaker 1: primary in Minnesota is actually today. So with that said,
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  Speaker 1: here he is my friend, Mike Lindell. Mike, Good Tuesday morning, buddy,
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  Speaker 1: how are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, said one to day when it's finally here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. It's got to feel like forever, all
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  Speaker 1: these days leading up to this, have you voted for yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Yet I'm doing that this morning. Believe me, the media
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  Speaker 2: is asking me every day, where are you gonnavote? Where
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  Speaker 2: you gonna vote?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't tell voter.
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  Speaker 2: You know that I'm a.
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  Speaker 1: Same day right, right, And I wish it was always
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  Speaker 1: like that, Mike Lindell, We've a lot, we've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot less problems if that was If that was the case.
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  Speaker 1: So I believe Donald for example, down in Florida, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't carries up big, but he's got twelve people running
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  Speaker 1: against him in that Republican primary a week one today,
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  Speaker 1: I believe you've got three, Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I got two main ones, and uh, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of interesting. One the one got the I've got the
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  Speaker 2: President's endorsement, the one got the Minnesota GOP endorsement, and
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  Speaker 2: then the other ones their establishment candidate that was Speaker
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  Speaker 2: of our House. So it's a three way race. I've
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  Speaker 2: been ahead in the polling for over a year now,
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  Speaker 2: but as you know, anything going to happen on election day.
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  Speaker 1: So is it fair to say, then, as you just said,
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  Speaker 1: you've been ahead of the polling for about a year now,
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  Speaker 1: You've got President Trump's endorsement, and I saw it live
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago in New Jersey's really really
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  Speaker 1: excited for you. Is it fair to say that you're
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  Speaker 1: very confident today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm confident. You know they uh, We've done a
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  Speaker 2: lot of work. We've had a lot of I've got
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  Speaker 2: a great UH lieutenant governor candidate. We put out our
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  Speaker 2: budget a week ago. So you know, it's been a
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  Speaker 2: battle since the President endorsed me. They've attacked me. Our
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  Speaker 2: own party has attacked me relentlessly for three weeks. And
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  Speaker 2: the Minneapolis Star and Tribuniti here in Minnesota, one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst papers in the country. They uh, there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: even close now. And I believe I know this from experience.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think the New York Times, I think
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times may give it a un for
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  Speaker 1: its money, Mike, but you're right.
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  Speaker 2: They they've got they've got me a campaign violation, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Mike brought little pillows to the kids in a Delano parade.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Mindel lives doesn't live in Minnesota. He doesn't he does,
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  Speaker 2: he's not registered, he doesn't have a driver light. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they've come at me with everything, and I've had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: show it. Probably it's been a big distraction. But as
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  Speaker 2: you know, like the president, the more you know, as
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  Speaker 2: getting attacked, UH actually gives publicity. Say, I was able
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  Speaker 2: to get my word out that they started out you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't even know I was running for governor here with
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  Speaker 2: the Stern Tribune, and now by their attacks, everybody knows
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  Speaker 2: I'm running and actually helps the polls go up. People
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  Speaker 2: are onto this nonsense of the media attacking every other day.
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  Speaker 1: I hope. So, I mean, I do love that state.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, my first cousin I'm very very close with.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm going to Las Vegas for them in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks for the RJC. Norm Coleman, he
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  Speaker 1: was a mayor of Saint Paul for eight years. He
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  Speaker 1: won that Senate seat, beating Wollstone when he passed away
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  Speaker 1: and Mondale and also ran against Jesse for governor and
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  Speaker 1: had on Al Franken and very very long history of
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  Speaker 1: wunning for office in the state of Minnesota. But that state,
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  Speaker 1: your state, Mike has gone completely bonkers with this maniac
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  Speaker 1: Walls as the governor, this horrible Jacob Frye as the
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  Speaker 1: mayor of Minneapolis. There's a lot of bad state time.
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  Speaker 1: I live in a bad state in New York, a
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  Speaker 1: very bad state, but your state may be the very worst.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it really is is. You know, we've It's
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  Speaker 2: when I said at the White House that time, we've
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  Speaker 2: you know, a nation turned this back on God. We
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  Speaker 2: took God out of the schools and we need to
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  Speaker 2: pray for grace. And I gave that speech. I could
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  Speaker 2: have just been talking about Minnesota. We have we have
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  Speaker 2: a governor here that put a Satanic statue in the Capitol.
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  Speaker 2: We have h you know, tampons and men's back and
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  Speaker 2: men's bathrooms. We just came out with a paper doll
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  Speaker 2: that kids were going to play with the four to
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  Speaker 2: ten year olds that you changed the genle toes on.
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  Speaker 2: This was two weeks ago. This is the most crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Then you have the you know, all the fraud with
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  Speaker 2: the Somalian fraud. You have we need We've got a
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  Speaker 2: big problem that we've got a ban Sharia law here.
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  Speaker 2: We've got so many things going on in it. But
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  Speaker 2: I looked at him, said, you know me, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: an optimist. I look at it. This is an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: and a blessing because it's woke. It's woke people up
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  Speaker 2: in Minnesota. They're they're they're waking up to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that this is crazy. We've got to do something. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the most critical election in Minnesota SKI history, and UH
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's got a change for people. One hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand people have left Minnesota under Governor Waltz's watch and uh,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course then they bring in Amy Klobachar,
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  Speaker 2: who's just a mirror image of him, and uh, it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's just discussing what's gone on here. But but uh,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're confident can change, you know. With uh, with God,
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  Speaker 2: all things are possible. And I really believe that there's uh,
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  Speaker 2: the Minnesota being in the nation's eye, the tip of
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  Speaker 2: the spear for all this craziness. And and I really
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  Speaker 2: believe that it's only maybe five percent of the people.
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  Speaker 2: I really believe that that are that are following all
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  Speaker 2: this stuff in this craziness because because they have the media,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they have our Minneapolis Star and tribute, they
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  Speaker 2: have all our ABC, NBC, CBS locally, they've all joined
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  Speaker 2: in the attack of me. They do not want me
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  Speaker 2: winning and to change everything and and uh and then
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  Speaker 2: they say, well, Michael, could you get anything done with
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  Speaker 2: with it? You know, the Democrats, Republicans, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: and uh, I said, well, you know what, you bring
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  Speaker 2: common sense solutions like the President did, and people in
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota I got a big mouth when I'm in there,
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  Speaker 2: and forgetting a good solutions getting blocked, everybody's going to
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  Speaker 2: know about it.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna know. Mike Lindell, my pillar running for governor.
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  Speaker 1: Love this guy coll Brant talking to and everybody loves
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  Speaker 1: Frant talking and still in Minnesota, the great quarterback. Actually
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  Speaker 1: I got traded to the Giants, but he's on our side.
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  Speaker 1: I know that one issue that you did not mention
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  Speaker 1: with all the issues you talked about in Minnesota. Ice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that was the place where good and pretty
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  Speaker 1: You know, though they neither one of them deserve to die,
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  Speaker 1: but neither one of them was innocent. They weren't dragged
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  Speaker 1: out of their homes and shot in the street. They
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  Speaker 1: were doing exactly what you shouldn't do because you could
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  Speaker 1: end up getting killed. But you guys kind of became
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  Speaker 1: the face of the revolte against ice. That's another Minnesota issue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a huge thing. And now we just had
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  Speaker 2: on an ice facility that's coming to Minnesota. Now. That
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  Speaker 2: was announce slash. When I come in as governor, one
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  Speaker 2: of the first things I will do is cooperate with
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  Speaker 2: the federal government. And that's you know that was the
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  Speaker 2: big problem. Other states have cooperated. They come and get
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  Speaker 2: the ones that are at least in the prison. In Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: we have fourteen hundred illegals in our prison share that
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  Speaker 2: have committed these horrible felonies, and we're paying one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fifty nine million dollars a year to house them.
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  Speaker 2: So you ship them out on day one. And then
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  Speaker 2: the other thing I'm going to do is these employers
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  Speaker 2: that are employing these illegals up here, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: make it a criminal offense where they go to jail,
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  Speaker 2: they go to jail, the owners will take away their
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  Speaker 2: business license. We're going to put the manager, put them
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  Speaker 2: on in prison because they're hiring these illegals. They're flooding
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  Speaker 2: into Minnesota. That I believe that will stop that. And
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  Speaker 2: then you had the protests. I'm all for protesting, but
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  Speaker 2: you better not do it illegally. Minneapolis has the strictest
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  Speaker 2: protest laws in the United States, but they're never followed.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, don't break a lag go block off Highway
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  Speaker 2: thirty five w They did that eight years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I'll never remind you, Mike, the the insurrection,
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  Speaker 1: there was no insurrection on January sixth, just look up
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  Speaker 1: the definition of more runs. You know what, there was
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  Speaker 1: an insurrection Minneapolis. They broke down a police station.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. It was horrific. What's happened here? And it
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  Speaker 2: all comes down to no law enforcement enforcing these protest laws.
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  Speaker 2: You can't break laws protesting. I mean after the after
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  Speaker 2: the Ice, when I pulled out Minneapolis, we had protesters
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  Speaker 2: downtown for over a month. That would stop my friends
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  Speaker 2: from getting to their neighborhoods, going checking their ideas in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the street to see if they were ICE.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was. It was ridiculed. They're breaking car windows,
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  Speaker 2: all these protesters. It was, you know, that needs to
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  Speaker 2: stop immediately. And I thought, when I was governor, I
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  Speaker 2: have to change all the laws. But no, Minneapolis already
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  Speaker 2: has these strict laws in place, but there I guess
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  Speaker 2: they're just there for show, but not anymore when I'm.
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  Speaker 3: In You know, I don't compare war stories. I don't
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  Speaker 3: do that type of stuff. I guess I did early
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  Speaker 3: on when I got sober years and years ago down
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  Speaker 3: in Florida, but.
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  Speaker 1: We did do that, like you're a badass addict, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest.
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  Speaker 2: With you.
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  Speaker 1: You were a homeless you were smoking crack. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't the guy who maybe you had one too
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  Speaker 1: many beers on a Friday night like you were. It
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  Speaker 1: was bad for you. And I read your book and
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  Speaker 1: I've had you on the show and we've been friends
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  Speaker 1: now for a long time. But I got to tell
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  Speaker 1: you what an unbelievable story. And I know you know this,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lindell, whether you win today or lose, and we
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  Speaker 1: all hope you win, of course, that none of this
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  Speaker 1: would be possible without your sobriety. And of course, Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: that's fair to say, right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. You know. On January sixteen, two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 2: I actually quit everything overnight. I had one prayer to God,
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  Speaker 2: I want to never have the desire again, and woke
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  Speaker 2: up in the morning and the desire was and I
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  Speaker 2: never looked back. And the uh, the uh I actually cave.
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  Speaker 2: On February eighteen, twenty seventeen, is when I completely gave
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  Speaker 2: my life to Jesus Christ. And they one of my
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  Speaker 2: biggest fear was public speaking. So can you imagine wow, wow,
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  Speaker 2: yeah got over that that day, it yeah yeah, And they,
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah. I always had a thing like I felt
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  Speaker 2: like I was in an elevator with people, and that
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  Speaker 2: was fear of rejection and you don't get you don't
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  Speaker 2: get rejected if you don't talk and they and you
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  Speaker 2: know this all my addictions, that being a crack add
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  Speaker 2: in the streets of Minneapolis. When I came out of
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  Speaker 2: addiction in two thousand and nine, I spent the next
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  Speaker 2: twelve years before all this political stuff. We're taking millions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars and helping addicts get find Jesus. I had
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  Speaker 2: a Lindel Recovery Network. I helped Teenhawn Salvation Army. We
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  Speaker 2: were there with the streets, helping the helping the homeless
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  Speaker 2: and the people in addiction find a better way and
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  Speaker 2: find get down to the root of the problem. And
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  Speaker 2: these are some of the things that I've had going
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  Speaker 2: on for over a decade now that I'll be bringing
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  Speaker 2: back to Minnesota with the private sector, helping these helping
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  Speaker 2: these people get to the riot of problem rather than
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  Speaker 2: just always enabling them and just keep you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have we had a hospital in Minneapolis. We just had
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  Speaker 2: to bail out. Because we're Minnesota nice. We're always going
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  Speaker 2: to help people, but why not help them and get
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  Speaker 2: to you know, get to the root of the problem
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  Speaker 2: and get they give them to a better life, and
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  Speaker 2: then and then they're getting supporting themselves.
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  Speaker 3: You are a super guy, Michael Williaw. And they got
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  Speaker 3: the Mike Lindell TV now too doing some important conservative
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  Speaker 3: work across the country too. But your sobriety story and
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  Speaker 3: how you found God is all really great and it's
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  Speaker 3: all going to help you today when you in fact
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  Speaker 3: win that primary, and I'm looking forward to you up
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  Speaker 3: against Amy come November and when you get your chance
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  Speaker 3: to be the next governor of the state of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: We're all proud of you, Mike. We all love you.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck today. We'll talk again very soon. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, God bless if lynndelgov dot com everybody,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to check it out, and uh, it
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  Speaker 2: was some prayers and support, thanks.
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  Speaker 1: You, said, Lyndel forgov dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Right, No, it's lind lyndelgov dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Lyndelgov dot com. All right, go help Mike out today, folks,
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  Speaker 1: lyndelgov dot com. Michael, thank you so much about benj
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  Speaker 1: you God bless you. Mike Lindell right there, Wunny, but
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  Speaker 1: governor in the state of Minnesota, and he's got his
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  Speaker 1: primary today.
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