Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem flew with Mike Lindell on his private jet to the Republican Governors Association meeting in Nashville, Tennessee before Lindell was unceremoniously rejected from attending any RGA events, Politico reports.
Noem, a rumored candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination for president and one of the rising names in the Party, taking the ride with Lindell connects her to someone who is increasing making himself unwelcome in GOP circles.
A staunch ally of Donald Trump and a vocal proponent of Trump’s Big Lie about the 2020 election, Lindell has alienated many mainstream Republicans with his insistence that state elections officials conspired with a global cabal to throw the 2020 presidential election to Democratic President Joe Biden.
Lindell had vowed to confront Republican Governors Doug Ducey of Arizona and Brian Kemp of Georgia about their unwillingness to have the state completely overturn the voters’ choice in the 2020 election and instead have a Trump-favoring slate of electors assigned to the Electoral College. Lindell was barred from attending any events during the conference, including even a dinner with the governors.
Lindell is facing a $1 billion lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems for blatant lies about the company and his claim that Dominion built software to switch votes to Biden.