Lisa Demuth, a Minnesota Republican currently serving as the state House speaker, was leading in the GOP gubernatorial primary according to the state party’s latest straw poll.
Demuth pulled ahead with more than 5,000 votes in the gubernatorial straw poll during Tuesday night’s precinct caucuses, according to the latest results released by the Republican Party of Minnesota as of Wednesday morning. Four-fifths of the results were tallied by that point.
In second place was former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kendall Qualls with over 4,000 votes, per the poll. He notably won a straw poll released by the party’s State Central Committee in December. Qualls last ran for Minnesota governor in 2022, but failed to secure the GOP nomination.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was in third place with
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