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5:24Now PlayingMyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been testing out a new conspiracy theory recently that he swears is proof that Trump actually won the 2020 election. According to the new theory, Ron DeSantis' massive victory in Dade County, Florida during the midterms this past year is somehow proof that Trump was cheated out of votes in the 2020 election, even though Trump won the state of Florida. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins tries to decipher this new conspiracy.
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MyPillow, C E o. Mike Lindell is back with a new conspiracy theory. Folks, of course centered around the 2020 and this time, the 2022 elections. So here's what's happening actually a couple weeks ago is when Mike Lindell first, I guess, started work shopping this idea. He was doing an interview on his own Frank speech, and then he came out and said, listen, I think there's some shenanigans that took place in the state of Florida in 2022. And I think that those shenanigans that of course, helped Ron DeSantis win this massive victory. I think those shenanigans could prove that there were even more shenanigans in 2020. And that Trump, you know, that proves he won. Okay, well, he came out over this last weekend, once again, reiterated these points and went a little more in depth in it. So here is what Mike Lindell is saying in a nutshell, run to San shocked the state by winning Dade County.
He won Dade County by 11 points. That is a Democratic stronghold, or at least was in the state of Florida forever, right? Like Miami-Dade, that I four corridor as well, the two Democratic strongholds. And now Dade County went by 11 points to Ron DeSantis and Mike Lindell saw that. And he says that he has now asked for the info from the voting machines, which Dade County's like, no, we're not gonna turn that over to you. You're a pillow salesman. Why would we give you this? You, you have no right to this material. We can't just hand it over, please go away. And Lindell says, oh no, they're not turning it over because there's something screwy going on. So, because Ron DeSantis won Dade County by 11 points in 2022. And because Trump lost Dade County by seven points in 2020. So we're looking at an 18 point swing, Mike Lindell says, there is no way things can change.
So clearly they didn't cheat in 2022. So he is now saying, DeSantis didn't cheat. He did win fairly. But Miami-Dade or Dade County, excuse me, cheated Donald Trump out of votes in 2020, which Trump won the state of Florida in 2020. So cheating him out of votes in a blue area of the state, even though he was gonna win the rest of the state. Anyway, that doesn't make much sense. But none of these conspiracy theories make much sense when, when you just start poking holes in 'em, right? Like Mike, demographics change. We have had a massive influx
Of right-leaning voters move into this state in the last two years. We have had a million, I believe it was new Republican registrations here in the state of Florida alone. That's a lot. Okay? We saw so many more Republicans than Democrats in 2022. So it's not that shocking. I mean, you, you did bother to look at census data, right? You looked at, you know, the number of voting changes here in the state before you just automatically accused them of cheating, right? I'm assuming that a man of your intellect would not neglect how demographics have shifted in this state, right? That would just be stupid. No, I'm actually willing to bet you didn't do that at all. You also didn't take into account that, hey, guess what, Ron DeSantis is just more popular in Florida than Donald Trump is. That's also a thing. So just because one person won and one person didn't, doesn't mean it proves any kind of fraud whatsoever.
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