Mike Lindell lost more than $2 million in court last year proving his election fraud claims were fake.
Now he's turned his sights on Ron DeSantis – the man who built the most dominant Republican electoral machine Florida has ever seen.
And what Lindell just said about one of the biggest Republican victories in Florida history will leave you speechless.
What Actually Happened in Miami-Dade in 2022
Ron DeSantis won Miami-Dade in 2022 by 12 points.
Marco Rubio won it by 9 points.
It was the first time a Republican gubernatorial candidate carried Miami-Dade in 20 years.
The reason wasn't mysterious.
Hispanic voters in South Florida watched Venezuela collapse.
They watched Nicaragua's president crack down on dissidents.
They watched Cuba quash historic protests.
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They looked at the Democrat Party – the party of "defund the police" and open borders – and they made a rational choice.
Republicans had been building toward this for years.
GOP Latino voter registration climbed by 58,000 between 2020 and 2022.
Democrat Latino registration fell by 46,000 in the same period.
When DeSantis won, nobody on the ground in Miami was confused about why.
Inflation was running at 8.3% in 2022. Biden's approval was cratering.
Democrats were running on the idea that parents shouldn't know what their kids were being taught in school.
DeSantis was governing like he meant it.
Lindell's Track Record on Election Claims
Here is what Lindell has actually delivered on election fraud in the past five years.
He hosted a "cyber symposium" in South Dakota in 2021 where he promised to show evidence of Chinese interference in the 2020 election.
He offered $5 million to anyone who could prove his data didn't show what he claimed.
A software forensics expert named Robert Zeidman took him up on it – and proved the data had nothing to do with the 2020 election.
An arbitration panel awarded Zeidman the $5 million.
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Lindell refused to pay until the courts made him.
A Colorado jury then awarded $2.3 million in damages against Lindell for defaming a former Dominion Voting Systems executive.
A federal judge in Minnesota separately ruled he had defamed Smartmatic with 51 false statements.
Now Trump has endorsed Lindell for Minnesota governor – and Lindell trails Amy Klobuchar by 17 points in general election polling.
What This Actually Tells You
Lindell previously claimed Miami-Dade's 2020 results were rigged against Trump – even though Trump improved from 34% of the county's vote in 2016 to 46% in 2020.
Now he's claiming the 2022 results – the ones that went Republican – were also rigged.
There is no result in Miami-Dade that Lindell will accept as legitimate.
That's not election integrity.
That's a man who cannot accept any result in any county in any year – and has turned that inability into a career.
DeSantis built something real in Florida.
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He flipped a county that Hillary Clinton had won by more than 290,000 votes in 2016.
He did it by governing boldly, by putting in the ground-level work in Hispanic communities, and by being the only major politician in the country who ran toward COVID restrictions while Democrats ran away from them.
Republicans now outnumber Democrats by more than one million registered voters in Florida – a lead that didn't exist six years ago.
That's the deviation from the norm Lindell can't explain.
It’s not fraud.
It’s called results.
Sources:
- A.G. Gancarski, "Pillow talk: Mike Lindell suggests fraud boosted Ron DeSantis in 2022's Miami-Dade flip," Florida Politics, July 16, 2026.
- Evan Power, "Red Wave Triumph: Miami-Dade County Flips to Republican Dominance," Republican Party of Florida, May 19, 2025.
- Tekla S. Perry, "Meet the Software Detective Who Debunked Mike Lindell's Election Fraud Claims," IEEE Spectrum, April 25, 2023.
- Evan Ochsner, "Mike Lindell's Chances Against Democrats in Minnesota as Trump Endorses Him," Newsweek, July 15, 2026.
