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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Mike Lindell is running for Governor, and Tim Walz is out.

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Michele has been interviewing all of the Republican Gubernatorial candidates in Minnesota.  My Pillow founder Mike Lindell is the latest to throw his hat in the ring.  On the morning that Tim Walz announced he will no longer seek another term, Lindell tells Michele how he plans to win — no matter who the democratic nominee is.

Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.

Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.

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I built huge businesses in Minnesota. My pillow I built from scratch, a billion dollar company with thousands and thousands of employees in Minnesota over the years. And then now we've been the most attacked company in history of the planet for the last year or the last two years by Operation Arctic Frost, when it was attacked by our own administration

0:56.7

under Biden.

0:58.5

And my pillow, we got through that.

1:00.4

I was able to navigate them through the hardest time for any company in history being

1:05.6

attacked daily by the media and the government.

1:08.8

And now they're there.

1:09.6

My employee-owned company, they're there. They're secure. I can move on to governor, and they'll be just fine. They've been there. They're here to stay, and this is what it's all about. I've lived the American dream on steroids. You know, I mean, it's been, this is what we're fighting for, the American dream. And everybody will see that.

1:28.5

I don't care if you're a Democrat in the city that's going to also now vote for me,

1:33.0

or if you're somebody that didn't bother and get out and vote.

1:36.4

You're going to be getting out and voting.

2:02.4

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tafoya podcast. Happy New Year. It's January 5th. And the news is breaking already. Here in Minnesota, Tim Walz has said he will not run for a third term. And we've got a multitude of candidates who are running for the Republican nomination for Governor Minnesota. What will happen on the Democrat side? There are rumors that

2:07.3

Amy Klobuchar is going to step into the void. We'll see about that she would be a far more

2:11.8

formidable candidate than Tim Walls was going to be. Many people saw Tim Walls as an easy defeat, no matter who the

2:20.3

Republicans put up. So we've got this growing number of Republicans, including my pillow founder,

2:25.3

Mike Lindell. He is our interview today. He doesn't seem to care who's running, whether it's

2:30.5

Amy Klobuchar or Tim Wals. The fact is, Tim Wals is no longer running if we believe his statement today.

2:37.1

And so if it is Amy Klobuchar, how will Mike Lindell handle it?

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